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Using analytics to achieve world championship gold
Former Australian basketball player, Emily McInerny, found that by analysing her personal data, looking at her every action, assessing it and using science could show her how to reach her peak performance.
What if your Fitbit could tell you when you are burning out at work?
We are all being asked to collaborate more, and that's a good thing, isn’t it? Well, apparently not if it leads to collaborative overload, according to Babson College Professor of Global Business Rob Cross.
Accelerating Microsoft Teams Adoption with SWOOP
We look at how to accelerate the adoption of Microsoft Teams to avoid the lows and move up the Maturity Model by Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing.
What impact do leaders have on collaboration? Show me the numbers!
One of our most enduring observations from organisations successfully using Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) platforms is the important role the CEO and executive leaders have played in the network’s success.
Are People Analytics the Answer to Your Employee Engagement Woes?
Deloitte's Human Capital Trends 2017 report identified "Organization of the Future" as its leading trend. The report went on to note a big shift in the way employees engage with each other, from hierarchies to networks. This social theme was reinforced in the company's 2018 report, which highlighted the rise of the “social enterprise.” The report placed an organization’s social capital as an enterprise asset on par with traditional physical and intellectual property assets. Deloitte emphasized the importance of a harmonized leadership team in building the social enterprise, with collaboration needed at all levels.
Yammer Benchmarking Insights #3 – Collaboration at the Personal Level
In this episode we drill down to the most detailed level. That’s you, the individual collaborator. At SWOOP we have designed behavioural personas to characterise individual collaboration patterns based on your pattern of activity.For example, if you are a Catalyst, you are good at getting responses to your posts
Will Fitbit ever be able to get you Net-Fit?
Fitbits provide analytics about you and your personal physics. But the other side of you that also has a big effect on your overall health and well-being is your ‘social physics’ , being your social connections. So the question is… will devices like Fitbit ever evolve to help you enhance your social connections, be they work related, or purely personal? i.e. get you ‘Net-Fit’.
Celebrating the ‘Quiet Achievers’ …. Quietly…
We are bombarded by media channels fronted by celebrity extroverts competing for our attention, to the point that we can become cynical in our search for genuine people. Sandra Cain’s Ted Talk on the “Power of Introverts” certainly struck a chord with the audience, which is essentially a call for the quiet achievers.