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Feature Segment: Improve your Company’s Culture with a Social Enterprise Network
In this episode Adam discusses ways to improve your company’s culture
As was said last week, there are at least four types of employee reactions to the prospect of adding social enterprise network at work. There are advocates, users, agnostics and detractors. Asking employees to teach is one management strategy for winning over detractors while stimulating collaboration in your culture.
Social Layer Segment: Three Pillars to Healthy Innovation
I think there are three pillars to healthy innovation, this content is taken from my May 13, 2013 blog post here:
- Teaching, spontaneous employee-to-employee teaching is one sign of a highly innovative company culture. Knowledge silos can limit the growth and success of a company. Breaking down knowledge silos can improve the speed and overall competitiveness of any company.
- Collaboration
- Organizational Health
I will cover the 2nd and 3rd pillars in later episodes but for today lets look at the concept of intentional teaching as a strategy to help your culture.
A great strategy for breaking down knowledge silos and converting some of your social business detractors into users is to ask employees to teach other employees using the company social network, such as blog posts or simply sharing files generated by the employee. It is not too much to ask an employee to teach, most companies expect employees to teach already through other tools like: monthly reports, research reviews and patent filings.
Be patient and persistent because being social does not come naturally to everyone.
What are some other ways that social enterprise software can improve a company’s culture?
Next episode I discuss crowdsourcing, please send any crowdsourcing questions or content to adam@sociallayerpodcast.com
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