The company intranet is kind of like the middle child in a family. We care about it, but its siblings usually get more attention. In this scenario, the siblings are external websites and social media channels. Websites always seem to get the makeover and the budget allocations when push comes to shove. Since social media is the last born, it’s the pride and joy of the company and leaders are focusing on this fun and energizing medium.

What many companies and leaders do not understand is that the intranet connects employees with the company and is an important engagement tool. Engagement equals happy employees, less turnover, increased innovation and savings on the bottom line. These things matter.

Source: www.iabc.com Posted by admin 53 days, 2 hours, 13 minutes ago

In my last three posts on the digital workplace I have covered ‘Must have digital workplace principles’ then focused on the first principle ‘5 steps to a great digital workplace strategy’ and lastly ‘Create a brilliant digital workplace with me’. To have a successful digital workplace (my definition is ‘work is what you do, not where you go to’) organisations must have the right strategy, culture, environment and infrastructure to exploit the benefits fully. It needs to become the natural way of working...

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Last week we held a small seminar at the office looking at how employee research is evolving. My colleagues from our research division came along and we talked about three ages of employee research and how it matches the evolving approach organisations have to where their employees add value.

The first age of employee research was the Personnel Age when all that ever happened was the fairly flat employee survey.  You know the sort of thing… do you like your job? Are you happy with your pay?  Have ...

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The most common communication vehicles organizations use to engage employees and foster productivity are e-mail (83 percent) and an organization’s intranet (75 percent).

Those are a couple of the findings in a new survey released by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Research Foundation and Buck Consultants, A Xerox Company. The survey also found nearly half of employers currently communicate through Facebook, instant messaging, and Twitter.

Source: www.talentmgt.com Posted by support 513 days, 3 hours, 17 minutes ago

The economic slump has put a severe strain on the relationship between companies and their employees. Staff are enduring pay freezes and job cuts, while in many cases bonuses still roll in at the top, fuelling resentment.

Yet against this background, large companies claim that they are doing more than ever before to listen to their staff and improve relationships. "Employee engagement" – the jargon for firms' efforts to communicate and build good relations with their workforces – is a hot topic in management circles. Since 2006, companies have had a legal duty to "have regard to the interests of employees" and to report on their interactions with staff each year in their accounts.

Source: www.guardian.co.uk Posted by admin 531 days, 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

The intranet does not have to be fun to make employees happy  

This is another article in which I try to create adoption and acceptance for the intranet in the organisation. I will take another angle and look at what motivates employees and what role the intranet can play to create happy employees. I believe we all agree that organisations need happy employees to be successful.

It is another way of identifying good content for the intranet.

How employees are motivated:

• Money - simply put: employees expect a fair financial compensation for their effort
• Creativity - We are all unique human beings and we all want to put our personality and ideas into our work
• Recognition - A shoulder tap is in many situations more worth than a financial raise / bonus
• Future - is the job secure, what are the options to grow in the organisation

Let's apply these to the intranet...

Source: www.baszurburg.com Posted by support 578 days, 7 hours, 54 minutes ago

Is your work's intranet similar to Facebook or Twitter?

A recent study by Gallup discovered that companies in the top quartile in terms of engaged employees outperformed those companies in the bottom quartile by a business growth rate of about 4 to 1.

The Gallup study provides graphs and data analyses in this report which proves that engagement is an important factor in the growth of a business. But how does an organization create engagement in the first place? One of the best and easiest ways to do this is by using social media tools inside the workplace.

A recent study by Ga...

Source: www.bafman.com Posted by support 591 days, 14 hours, 23 minutes ago

Employee engagement can't be forced and in most cases, the experts say, it just can't be expected.

Here are a few lessons learned by the intranet managers of British Telecom, KPN and MARS.

Each company is seeking to raise engagement levels of between 40,000 and 140,000 employees — it's no simple task.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by bee 613 days, 11 hours, 23 minutes ago

In my last post, I framed a definition of collaboration, but it left many questions unanswered. For example, what would effective collaboration look like?

Here are my secret sauce ingredients. I see these as key factors for driving effective collaboration:

Engagement. To me, it starts with listening, being in the moment. Active listening and engagement is necessary to establish rapport and trust.

Source: www.talentculture.com Posted by bee 647 days, 11 hours, 13 minutes ago

Massive corporations will always be more opaque for their employees than smaller ones. Working in a small team, you can take the time to learn your colleagues, speak with them about the projects, understand the motivations behind every decision. It is impossible to do the same in a company employing thousands of people. Most of large organisations understand this is a weakness, putting at risk employee engagement, creativity and consistency between departments. Tactics to mitigate these  risks are common...

Source: bruchansky.name Posted by bee 667 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes ago