socbizchat

Network, network, network

It's a great engagement and transparency channel. You can pre-vet employees and they can pre-vet employers!

About a year ago, I posted a job to hire a storyteller into my social business adoption team. Of course, I tweeted the posting so that I could make others aware of it.

You have more way to get to know the person and his/her skill. You can easily ask 2nd opinion from someone else

#socialbiz practice is the honey that attracts brilliant bees.

A woman saw my tweet and applied for the job. She then connected with me to alert me to her application, in a way that was engaging, rather than intruding. She told me her story.

A5. It can turn an org's insides out. Many employees can share the value of the work and enviro

She got the interview, and then I had the chance to check out her social channels. I learned so much about her, including that she had recently faced some interesting personal and professional transitions.

One org I know uses #socialbiz to attract smart folks AND weed out the inauthentic duds. #doublebeebonus

I hired @maxwelllauren a few weeks later, and she's been an amazing addition to team IBM #socbiz!

You're able to learn so much more about what makes someone click by what they tweet and post on Linkedin than you would on a one-page resume.

@MCooke2013 It is really that simple, actually.

Resumes show experience. Social collaboration shows stories.

Great lessons here about being responsible with your online activity!

@kushaanshah social tools allow you to share what you're doing/thinking not just what you've done (resume, CV)

One big org checks profiles not to weed out b/c of partying, rather b/c that implies they're well liked.

@edbrill A great example of storytelling through tweets right there, Ed! Glad to know the story! (& congrats @maxwelllauren )

Thru ambient awareness, we as hiring mgrs get a sense of people's rhythms & approach to life.

Let's please not forget that #socialbiz includes customer communities, too, great for recruitment+.

Create a culture of participation. This needs to be done at both a grass roots and a top down level.

Establish clear guidelines/policy that encourage that culture of participation. The IBM social computing guidelines are an empowering policy, not a stifling one.

To accelerate #socialbiz, ask how you can replace dull practices w/those where ppl can be in relationship w/one another.

and most importantly, use storytelling to demonstrate the real business outcomes associated with #socbiz adoption.

Start small. Find where healthy collab happening. use tools to extend/expand community, collab, sharing

...just *please* don't try to "socialafy" practices that work well w/ a lone focus or effort.

Allow employees to be creative, hear them out, embrace new ideas, don't be afraid to try something new.

@britz good point, some people will progress slower than others, so they may need more time

@edbrill Great point Ed - I think the transformation of eliminating hierarchy - has caused the culture of participation to open up.

I've found to encourage participation you need champions at a team level to help show the way

A2) To accelerate #socbiz and collaboration ... start by ensuring leadership has the right mindset.

Great input everyone! keep it going.

@ElizabethKvedar support where it works without tech, don't try creating something that's not there

Think of the effort like a marathon, not a sprint. Different people have different paces, all wanting to get down the road...

@atharafzal ...a la #Holacracy?

Allowing everybody to feel comfortable and sharing by showing and demonstrating - we had something similar at IBM - where we helped each person live and did selfie

.@IBMSocialBiz In my experience culture of participation means (in part) that people feel comfortable sharing ideas and voicing opinions regardless of position. #socbizchat

@edbrill Agree, especially on participation from up top & grassroots level! Employees need to see it throughout the "entire" org.

Create new opportunities for employees to engage around personal passions (as long as they don't interfere too much with the tasks at hand, of course).

@CWPBIZ Good luck. Often its best to give it a go & ask forgiveness later. Leaders like results that scale

@britz ...if their mindset is right, as I mentioned, you won't need to ask forgiveness.

A3) Collaboration tools facilitate transparency as well as foster synergy between teams and positions.

Social collaboration tools provide for instant, on-demand learning. (Lots more at http://newsociallear...) @newsociallearn

A3. They deliver business outcomes - speed, agility, innovation, employee engagement, and client satisfaction/results.

A3.Social collab tools make the invisible visible: ideas, conversations, relationships

working openly allows 1:many interaction vs an email 1:1 interaction

One of my faves is by reducing duplication of effort by letting you quickly find out who has already done what.

With #socialbiz there's no asking, "who in the world knows anything about this?" Those people find you. Bonus!

We have many demonstrable examples of how engaged employees are able to deliver products faster or more frequently, win more business, or make more informed decisions.

Social collab tools make the invisible visible: ideas, conversations, relationships

a3: by helping people collaborate with each other n a manner / medium they feel most comfortable with. So for example having tools that work on their mobile phones - that makes it easier for all people to connect.

the tools help you find the experts faster

#Collaboration tools give you quick access to other people's knowledge and expertise so you don't have to become an expert yourself.

In my experience, people who like what they're doing and who they're working w/ are in general more productive too.

A3) Social collab tools enable transparency, give speed to task execution and creation of new ideas, & allow people to work no matter where they are on the globe.

A3: By allowing for transparent collaboration in real-time. Keeps people engaged, cognizant of the work being done, and helps expedite processes.

@britz Nice answer - also it makes people more interested to express their ideas over

lots of talk of "engagement". Social tools do not create engagement. They can expose where it isn't

#esn tools help companies work together, rather than separately

as part of a worldwide team, social tools enable easier collaboration

And they make answers available to all of the team, all of the time. No more digging through email for decisions. #socbizchat