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It’s more than “liking”
Sharon Dawson Sharon Dawson

It’s more than “liking”

Using collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Workplace from Facebook is more than "liking", it’s about two-way conversations to achieve business value.

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 One Bright Spot in COVID-19: The Rise of Self-Directed Teams
CMS Wire, Microsoft Teams, Thought Leadership Laurence Lock Lee CMS Wire, Microsoft Teams, Thought Leadership Laurence Lock Lee

One Bright Spot in COVID-19: The Rise of Self-Directed Teams

Those of you struggling with working from home (WFH) may have some doubts about this, but bear with me. If I asked you “who is in your team?” could you answer easily? Or would your answer be “well that depends ... do you mean our whole department? The people I work with the most? Which team do you mean? I’m on multiple teams.”

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Executive engagement – the key to a successful Yammer network
Yammer Sharon Dawson Yammer Sharon Dawson

Executive engagement – the key to a successful Yammer network

The No.1 way to get employees engaged on a company’s Yammer network is by getting leaders to use the platform, according to communications managers at some of the world’s biggest companies. If a leader, including the CEO, is making the time to share ideas and connect on the social network platform, even the busiest front-line worker or middle manager would find it hard to explain why they can’t do so.

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What makes a collaboration champion? The secrets revealed
Thought Leadership Sharon Dawson Thought Leadership Sharon Dawson

What makes a collaboration champion? The secrets revealed

At SWOOP Analytics, our goal is to help organisations become better and faster at collaborating.

Nothing makes us happier than seeing organisations achieve better collaboration and, ultimately, innovation in their workplace.

This year we are honouring these collaboration champions and sharing with you their best practices. We have introduced the inaugural SWOOP Awards for Outstanding Collaborative Performance in SWOOP’s 2018 Benchmarking of Yammer networks. We trawled through 12 million interactions between 1.4 million people from 74 different organisations to find these star performers.

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Are today’s boards ill-equipped to deal with modern workplaces?
Thought Leadership, Academic Business Journals Laurence Lock Lee Thought Leadership, Academic Business Journals Laurence Lock Lee

Are today’s boards ill-equipped to deal with modern workplaces?

As scalps continue to fall in the banking Royal Commission, it’s become clear board members need tools to give insights and transparency into company culture. Boards need to be better technically equipped to deal with non-financial indicators like a poor or ineffective corporate culture.

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A View from the Top – David Thodey Interview Part 3 – Reflections, On-going Challenges and Lessons Learned.
Yammer Laurence Lock Lee Yammer Laurence Lock Lee

A View from the Top – David Thodey Interview Part 3 – Reflections, On-going Challenges and Lessons Learned.

We are sharing the experiences of David Thodey, the former CEO of Australia’s largest telecommunications company and strong Enterprise Social Networking advocate. In part 1 we looked at the key business issues Thodey faced in his six year tenure as CEO, and how he came to discover the ESN solution Yammer. In part 2 we traced his challenges, experiences and activities in formally adopting the platform as a key communication vehicle for the organisation. In this final part we bring it all together to provide reflections, challenges and lessons learned to those embarking on a similar path to Thodey’s.

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A View from the Top – David Thodey Interview Part 2 – Reflections on experiences “in use”
Yammer Laurence Lock Lee Yammer Laurence Lock Lee

A View from the Top – David Thodey Interview Part 2 – Reflections on experiences “in use”

In Part 1 of this interview series with David Thodey, the former CEO of Telstra and strong Enterprise Social Networking advocate, we covered his reflections on current frustrations with communications experienced by CEOs and the discovery of Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) and Yammer. In this part we continue the journey of how he personally made use of the platform.

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A View from the Top – David Thodey Interview – Part 1: Why Enterprise Social Networking?
Yammer Laurence Lock Lee Yammer Laurence Lock Lee

A View from the Top – David Thodey Interview – Part 1: Why Enterprise Social Networking?

In her article “Why No-one Uses the Corporate Social Network”, where Charlene Li bemoans the lack of leadership participation, David Thodey, the then CEO of Australia’s largest Telecommunications company, was highlighted as a rare exception. We were fortunate recently to be able to catch up with David to gain his reflections on Enterprise Social and the part it played in helping achieve Thodey’s vision for the company.

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Communicating Diagonally: New Value Pathways via Enterprise Social Networking?
Thought Leadership, Yammer Laurence Lock Lee Thought Leadership, Yammer Laurence Lock Lee

Communicating Diagonally: New Value Pathways via Enterprise Social Networking?

Traditional organisational hierarchies have proven to be poorly suited to sharing information and knowledge sideways, as designed communication pathways at the base of the hierarchy would have information move vertically upward before moving across and then downward to its waiting audience. But what about “Diagonal Communication”?

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