Organizations that create compelling collaborative strategies benefit from dramatically lower friction – and lower operational costs. Yet creating these collaborative, engaged, and psychologically safe workplace seems to bedevil most organizations. I believe it is the way we think about and construct business models and strategies. Too often, the non-financial values go unconsidered in business models
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Every organization is scrambling to figure out what the new ‘normal’ looks like and in different phases of building a hybrid workplace. Will everyone be remote most of the time? Will employees be required to return to offices? Something in-between? If so, what does THAT look like? It’s not an easy thing to navigate, especially
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Now available – new research on Enterprise community programs, how they operate, and what impact they have. Digital Workplace Communities in 2021 offers data about the changing visibility and impact of these programs, especially as organizations adjusted to the COVID pandemic and now as they navigate a hybrid workplace. The results are remarkable. Those organizations
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Employees are drowning in the network effects created by the myriad internal and external communications and content channels.The Great Reevaluation is creating such untenable situations for people that they are leaving jobs without first finding another one – even in the U.S. where they risk losing health care. They are doing it against their economic
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It’s being called The Great Resignation – this sort-of-but-not-really-post-pandemic economy. Almost every sector is finding it challenging to fill open positions. I spoke with a friend recently who is a tall ship captain and her organization can’t find enough qualified crew members – if it’s happening in such a niche and ‘alternative’ career path it’s
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How do you foster trust in groups of people? Our traditional approach is reactive – moderating after the fact. That is important but not sufficient.
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Organizational strategies need to adapt to unleash the potential of our organizations but are constrained by outdated mental models.
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After a twelve-year run at The Community Roundtable, I am transitioning to a new venture reflective of the work I want to pursue more closely at this time. TheCR will remain and do much of the same work it always has. Its value is more vital than ever – and needed as more of the
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During the pandemic, there has been a lot of self-congratulatory excitement as organizations went ‘virtual.’ It feels like a lot of the conversation about going back to work focuses on the physical presence — rather than on the behaviors that will enable the flexibility we enjoyed by working remotely.
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The workplace communications crisis
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