From my experience, one of the key ingredients of a great team is diversity. Great teams need introverts and extroverts. They need deep thinkers and broad thinkers, and practical people and academics. And these folk don’t always get on that well.
In previous Intersol blogs, we talked about thinking strategically, change management, corporate culture,collaboration and building strong teams. Today we look at a practical means to pull much of this together by using technology to engage all levels of the organization in a “performance discussion”.
Things have changed quite dramatically over the past five or 10 years, especially in the world of communications. A perfect storm came together a while back with the advance of social media and crowdsourcing blending it all together.
This blog post was originally posted on Ottawa Business Journal website.
The global explosion of information technology and online activity is increasingly transforming our patterns of human interactions. A growing number of people are adopting new media habits and engaging in a new form of many-to-many dialogue in a way never before seen.
The availability of robust online engagement tools now provide a means of sharing information, fostering rich discussions, soliciting feedback and obtaining input into organizational decision-making - all online.
This blog post was originally posted on Ottawa Business Journal website.
Last week’s expert blog focused on investing in corporate culture. That’s a big corporate kind of question. This week, let’s look at your own team? Is it getting the job done or is it more like today’s “Modern Family” and just a little bit dysfunctional?
This blog post was originally posted on Ottawa Business Journal website.
In our last blog, Christopher Comeau talked about communication during change, and how to increase buy-in to your change efforts. As you do this work, you may find it helpful to bring in a facilitator for specific meetings and events related to the change. So today I’d like to talk about when it makes sense to use a facilitator, and things to consider in choosing a facilitator.
This blog post was originally posted on Ottawa Business Journal website.
Business literature is rife with terms and expressions that at face value make sense, but upon further scrutiny become quite unclear. Strategic thinking is one such term. So, what is it? How do you apply it?
The recent announcement by the Treasury Board Minister regarding the release of Guideline for External Use of Web 2.0 has likely left many departments and agencies of the federal government scratching heads at trying to figure out what it all means. On one hand, the Minister appears to be giving the go-ahead to public servants in making use of web 2.0. On the other hand, the government’s tightly controlled communication practice gives public servants a very different message.
Ok it’s a cheeky title, but it gets to the heart of an interesting question: With a substantial number of boomers retiring from the public service, is the next generation of public servants and executives (Exs) ready? This “readiness debate” as I call it, takes many forms, one in particular is interesting: How can the many “about-to-retire-public-servants” transfer their knowledge to their less experienced colleagues? I think this is a false debate. The reason?
I have to lead off this post by saying that I'm a bit biased. I'm still jazzed about attending CrowdConf2011 (http://www.crowdconf.com/) in San Francisco last week.
We got to hear all the cutting edge stuff by some of the leaders at Google, Microsoft and Amazon, just to name a few. We also got a glimpse of all of the cool stuff that Nokia is doing in Europe and Asia and what we should expect here in terms of mobile engagement in the near future.
