6 Ways to Unlock Innovation and Employee Engagement with Social Learning

6 Ways to Unlock Innovation and Employee Engagement with Social Learning

Who is this guy?Jason Lauritsen

• CEO, Talent Anarchy• Former HR Executive

• Consultant, Leadership Trainer, Keynote Speaker

• Wrote a book about Social Capital

Speed and

Innovation

THEN NOW

Signals

Work has changed.

intelligenceexperience

knowledge

skillsability

What about this stuff?

Baker, Wayne. Achieving Success Through Social Capital. 2000.

resources available to an individual through their relationships

to and connections with others:

resources available to an individual through their relationships

to and connections with others:

- information- ideas- expertise

- goodwill- trust- cooperation

Baker, Wayne. Achieving Success Through Social Capital. 2000.

The new talent equation:

Posse

A couple of thingsto know about

NETWORKS

Where do our friends come from?

PROXIMITY–We don’t seek out friends, we

associate with people who occupy the same small, physical spaces we do

ACTIVITY–We are friends with those with

whom we DO things

WEAK TIES Friendly yet casual connection

JOB RESEARCH56% got job through contact

Mark Granovetter, Getting a Job, 1974

InnovationSpeed

LearningEngagement

OR

6 Strategies for Unlocking

the Power of Connection

1. Teach social skills and connection mindset.

Help people understand the importance of relationships.

Teach the skills of connection and networking.

2. Unleash the power of social technology.

Surrender control of social networking tools.

Teach people how to use social

networks to do better work.

3. Make sharing and helping easy.

Cultivate an internal social network.

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Encourage people to

“narrate” their work for the

network.

4. Encourage socializing at and through work.

No ConnectionNo Overlap

Connection MadeStill No Overlap

Significant OverlapMeaningful Relationship

Intentionally design time for connecting and networking into work.

Make connectedness and networking a component of performance.

5. Break down the wall between business and

personal.

Encourage people to share more about themselves at work.

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Create a place for sharing stories and celebrating personal accomplishments.

6. Support and organize “causes” at work.

Use meaningful activity to generate social capital.

Provide tools to make it easy for employees to

organize around common interests.

The new talent equation:

LET’S GET CONNECTED

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