Josh Bernoff (@jbernoff) penned a nice blog on Mashable.com (@mashable) the other day about unleashing your employees potential through social media. Diving a bit deeper, he notes how Best Buy encourages employees to throw out “half baked ideas” and let the good ones bubble up – folksonomy! I am working with the nice people at IdeaJam (@belgort) on how to use their application as a tool to allow employees and customers share ideas and make them visible and actionable within organizations. In the middle of it all, its about taking what your employees already know and are passionate about and giving them the tools to share and find like-minds – and allow people to find them.
As the base of this is a concept Josh has coined: HERO’s Highly Empowered and Resourceful Operatives. He explores this more in his book “Empowered: winning in a world transformed by social technologies” which I ordered and plan on blogging about later next week.
Today, you read articles about how social collaboration is to help younger employees work better in enterprises, which is true. But really, collaboration is for everyone because we all have been taught to collaborate. We are all inherent HERO’s within our organizations – in one form or another.
How are you empowering your employees?
It’s somehow funny how we humans have to be forced to collaborate when collaboration is in the nature of all living creatures, including humans, of course. All communities need to learn how to collaborate to survive.
As I said on one of my latest posts on my blog, you need to encourage your team, choose carefully all the members and make sure their tasks are understood and their profile is the best for it, and then implement the most accurate collaboration structure and organize everything together with all shareholders involved.
Very interesting post, thank you
Lorie Vela
Lorie-
I couldn’t agree more, from a young age we are taught to learn through collaboration and then, often, we lose that skill as we get older. Great comment. Thank you.
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