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The story of a digital team – Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing
Team productivity is strongly linked to relationships formed and sustained by team members. With SWOOP Analytics’ newest product – SWOOP for Microsoft Teams – we can help you identify what type of teams you’re working with and adapt behaviours to help you reach more productive outcomes.
Meet our ‘SWOOP for Microsoft Teams’ Personas
Ahead of the global launch of SWOOP Analytics’ newest product – SWOOP for Microsoft Teams –on July 1, 2019, we would like to introduce you to our SWOOP for Teams personas.
How Stable is your Digital Team?
We’ve taken a deep dive to analyse more than 1,300 digital teams and discovered some surprising results. While stability is easier to achieve in small teams, stability in larger teams could impact negatively on diversity and innovation, and sometimes lead to a toxic work environment.
Engagement 3.0? SWOOP has you covered
We were intrigued and somewhat excited when we saw HR guru Josh Bergin’s take on the evolution of the Employee Engagement marketplace. Bergin is an internationally renowned HR, People and Talent analyst, who recently provided his Top 5 Digital trends in HR.
How long does it take before SWOOP has an impact on your ESN?
This question was recently posed to us and we didn’t have a quick answer. In this post we have taken the time to make a considered response to a question we expect all of those considering SWOOP would be interested in.
Building Online Communities of Practice
Communities of Practice, or CoP, are a centrepiece of Knowledge Management programs world-wide. But it is vital these groups are not formed purely because it is easy to do so. They must be generating value, be sustainable and align with an organisation’s core competencies.
Building High Performance Online Teams
What does a high performing team online look like? What measures should leaders adopt when monitoring and guiding their team’s performance? We’re about to take you on a deep dive into analysing what “good looks like” for high performing teams. This article builds on our introductory post on “Building Better Online groups” where we identified that not all online groups are formed equal and that a more bespoke analytics approach is required for the different types of online groups. The ‘Team’ was one such grouping identified.
Productivity = Effectiveness + Efficiency: Measuring Effectiveness with SWOOP
Today the technical and business press is filled with stories about the productivity gains available through a digitally disrupted workplace. ‘Bots’ have replaced ‘Apps’ as the ‘must have’ technology gadget. We like Bots because they promise to take away the drudgery of dealing with mindless bureaucratic work processes, freeing our time for tasks that can employ our full intellectual selves. But we always have to remember that productivity has two parts; Effectiveness and Efficiency, or as I like to frame them: ‘Doing the Right Thing’ and ‘Doing it Right’. And of course being extremely efficient doing the ‘wrong’ thing is just a waste!