I just read an article which (among other things) suggests following your employees’ social media updates to gain insight into them and possible workplace issues. I cringed when I read it and I re-read it five times to make sure I wasn’t missing something. What did we do in the days before social media? And [...]
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How Did We Manage Employees Before Social Media?
Posted in Managing In A Digital Age, Social Media In The Workplace, tagged Managing In A Digital Age, Social Media in Workplace, Social Media Risks, Workplace Challenges on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Culture 2.0: Is It Time To Update Your Culture?
Posted in Corporate Culture, Employee Engagement, Social Media, Social Media In The Workplace, tagged Corporate Culture, Employee Engagement, Social Media, Social Media in Workplace on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I think we all have friends who for the past several years thought that social media was for the unemployed, stay-at-home moms (and dads), Gen X’ers and parents who needed to monitor their teenagers. It took a while before they realized that the web traffic from one cubicle to the next was not on the [...]
Social Media And Carnac The Magnificent
Posted in Social Media In The Workplace, Training, tagged Social Media in Workplace, Training on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I hold in my hand the envelopes…No one knows the contents of these envelopes, but you, in your divine and mystical way, will ascertain the answers having never before seen the questions. [Ed McMahon] I once had a boss who loved the book How Will You Know Unless I Tell You? (author Jerry D. Twentier) and [...]
When It Comes To Social Media, Do You Have A “They Should Know Better” Approach?
Posted in Gen Y, Managing In A Digital Age, Social Media In The Workplace, Workplace Challenges, tagged Gen Y, Managing In A Digital Age, Social Media in Workplace, Social Media Risks on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to over-sharing or thinking before they tweet, the perception remains that this is a GEN Y issue, particularly when it comes to the workplace. Gen Y is getting a bad rap but more importantly, it’s time for companies to abandon the view that their employees and management “should know better” or that [...]
Sweat (Some) Of The Small Stuff And Don’t Poke Your Employees
Posted in Management, Managing In A Digital Age, Social Media, Social Media In The Workplace, Workplace Challenges, tagged Managing In A Digital Age, Social Media, Social Media in Workplace, Social Media Risks, Workplace Challenges on September 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
What is a Poke? The poke feature can be used for a variety of things on Facebook. For instance, you can poke your friends to say hello. When you poke someone, they will receive a poke alert on their home page. Source: Facebook A young woman, (we’ll call her Julie), is 24 years old [...]
The New Glass House: Social Media And Subtle Bias
Posted in Personal Branding, Social Media In The Workplace, Workplace Challenges, tagged Personal Branding, Social Media in Workplace, Social Media Risks, Workplace Challenges on September 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
We think that Social Media creates bias because of the obvious things that we can learn about people when we invade their lives online. Real damage, however, can occur in subtle ways when we shape opinions about people before we know them or we have visibility into the previously unknown. I’m talking about subtle things, [...]
Social Media In The Workplace—It’s Already Complicated
Posted in Business, Social Media, Social Media In The Workplace, Workplace Challenges, tagged Social Media, Social Media in Workplace on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I recently led a half day workshop with a multi-national company who is already knee deep into some great Social Media activities. The purpose of the workshop was to talk about the impact inside the organization and to start a dialogue about the legal and HR risks that can crop up when you’re not looking—or [...]
Look Who’s Talking (2)…About Your Employment Brand
Posted in Employment Branding, Social Media, Social Media In The Workplace, Workplace Challenges, tagged Employment Branding, Social Media, Social Media in Workplace, Workplace Challenges on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Part 2 of 2 In part 1, I talked about how an employer’s brand is shaped by job seekers, past employees, current employees and anyone who has ever had interaction with your company. These viewpoints are not exclusively from unhappy campers who worked or interviewed with your company. Their opinions (in most cases) are formed [...]
Look Who’s Talking About Your Employment Brand
Posted in Employment Branding, Social Media, Social Media In The Workplace, Workplace Challenges, tagged Employment Branding, Social Media, Social Media in Workplace, Workplace Challenges on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Part 1 of 2 A friend of mine has an upcoming phone interview with a local employer and she was advised to check out the current state of the management and the culture. Unfortunately over the past several years, and through a pretty tight network, the reputation and brand of this particular employer has diminished. [...]
Managing In The Digital Age: No Policy? Use Your Judgment
Posted in Change Management, Gen Y, Personal Branding, Social Media In The Workplace, Training, Workplace Challenges, tagged Change Management, Gen Y, Social Media in Workplace, Social Media Risks, Workplace Challenges on July 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to newest challenges in the workplace, one phrase always comes to mind. I can’t take credit for it but I will say it was in a Manager’s Handbook from a past employer and I suspect it’s still there—in the absence of policy, there’s judgment. As I went through my reading material today [...]
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