Business Culture, Collaboration, and Learning
The challenges organizations now face are too big for any of us to solve alone. Time to put collaborative tools into action, increasing mindshare and organizational advantage. This blog introduces people, resources, and strategies that generate repeatable value and shows you how to generate more energy than you consume. At work, in life, we are better together.
Sometimes people read The New Social Learning in the hope it will be written expressly for trainers in corporate training departments. They learn quickly that it was written for leaders in every sort of department determined to help themselves and their people learn more from everything, not only training… from work and the interactions that [...] Read more →
[Updated last February 21, 2012] Recently I’ve been speaking with many organizations about the benefits of social business in the workplace. My talks are sprinkled with statistics about our changing world. There are for more interesting numbers and resources than I could ever reference so I’m creating this post (which will get revised over time) [...] Read more →
To benefit from social learning, build a culture that makes learning fun, productive and commonplace, a culture where learning is part of everyday work. Marcia Conner and Steve LeBlanc look at where social learning thrives. [...] Read more →
Social messaging offers much more than collaboration when individuals include their multidimensional perspectives in the Enterprise stream. I began using Twitter out of spite. Fast Company had a mass website upgrade and some links weren’t working. Our editor was suddenly unreachable (after saying we should contact her if we needed any help). I had a [...] Read more →
As the enterprise microsharing market (aka “Twitter inside Business”) grows, I hear from skeptical leaders befuddled by this trend, wanting to be reassured their people aren’t simply wasting time. Here are specific questions I’ve received and how I respond to each. Question: How can all of this yammering be good for business and my bottom [...] Read more →
Marcia Conner is an internationally recognized advisor to the world's largest organizations reinventing themselves and their workforce for the future.
