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Leading Virtual Teams to Real Results
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Bob Taccini, a 52-year-old vice president of finance at Cisco Systems, has faced this situation personally. Although self-described as one of the last people to adopt a new fad, he says, "When we cut our travel budgets, using social technologies helped meet my need for personalization with my team. Even when I had a travel budget, I could maybe only get to some of our sites once a year. Management now requires spanning distance, even though we can't span time. Certainly, as we continue to build a multi-generation workspace, social technologies will become more and more the norm."For Taccini, the last five years — marked by constantly changing market conditions, the introduction of more distributed leadership throughout Cisco, and the increased availability of virtual meeting technologies — have demanded a change in how he leads. During this time, he has become an adept user of social technologies. Now he conducts virtual offsite meetings, using TelePresence and WebEx, with blogs, discussion groups, and online forums as needed. TelePresence is richer than e-mail or voice mail and feels more real and physical because participants are able to see the other people involved.
One of the most effective tools Taccini has used is a monthly video blog (vlog). "It has been one of the best ways to communicate, supplemented by calls with everyone in my reporting chain," he said. "Even though it's not two-way real time, I get more participation from the vlog. My team sends questions, and they also have Web spaces to create collaboration spaces."
Here are some tips of how leaders are using social technologies to work virtually:
Looking Ahead at Social Learning: 10 Predictions
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Jeanne Meister and Karie Willyerd were recently published in T + D magazine. The article is excerpted here: Ten years ago, we had just come out of one of the most costly IT investments of all time—the Y2K scare. Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, was in high school. Microsoft had just lost a major antitrust lawsuit; Google was getting settled in its first office space after being in a garage for its first year; and the presidential election results were stalled due to hanging chads. The economy was in a state of hope and opportunity known as the dot-com boom, and the phrase "Web 2.0" was 1 year old. In the learning industry, the LMS was seen as the provider of the comprehensive solution for the technology needed in an organization; e-learning content providers were merging to provide comprehensive libraries; and portals were the intranet solution of choice for content destinations. What a difference a decade makes.
Best Buy: Using Crowdsourcing For Human Resources
Posted by: Jeanne Meister | Comment (0)Affinity groups have been around for some time in forward thinking companies. But now some of these companies are taking Affinity Groups to a new level: they are using them to crowdsource new products and services.
Consider Best Buy: While sales in 2009 accounted for roughly 22% of U.S. consumer electronics sales, its share of sales to women was just 16%.
Solution: Best Buy leveraged its Women’s Leadership Forum, composed of female Best Buy employees and female Best Buy customers plus a network of teenage girls to suggest new ways to sell to women.
Use Microblogging to Increase Productivity
Posted by: Harvard Business Review | Comment (0)You can replicate this experience inside your organization. There are a number of internal solutions that allow employees to share messages and information with each other, including Yammer and Socialtext. Laurence Smith, Vice President of Global Learning & Development at LG Electronics in Seoul, Korea has become an advocate of Yammer as a way to drive greater innovation in the design of the company's training programs.10 guidelines in launching Enterprise 2.0
Posted by: Karie Willyerd | Comment (0)CLO Magazine has published our article, "Social Learning Unleashed" in the April edition. The article is adapted from Chapter 6 our upcoming book, "The 2020 Workplace" and has been printed with permission of our publisher, Harper Collins.
If you want to know more about Perspectives on the new world of learning, How Enterprise 2.0 is allowing social networking inside the company, A case study on CA and their journey to implement Enterprise 2.0 - we recommend you read the article at CLO MAGAZINE. Included in the article is: 10 guidelines to consider in creating, organizing and planning the rollout of an enterprise 2.0 initiative.
