Social Business - Building Trust & Inspiring Cultural Change? BYOD - Bring yopur own device to work - the first step to showing you trust your people?Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: 400+ Management & Leadership models in PowerPoint Format Download NOW … [Read more...] about Social Business – Building Trust & Inspiring Cultural Change? #IBMSocialBizUK

Social Business - Solving Business Problems through Collaboration?".....social business tools" ARE Knowledge management tools" - MDM Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: 400+ Management & Leadership models in PowerPoint Format Download NOW … [Read more...] about Social Business – Solving Business Problems through Collaboration?

Social Business - Incentivising Staff to Collaborate? In many organizations it is rapidly being recognised that using collaboration tools is the only way to sustain the change and growth required to keep up with , and in many cased beat the competition.This video shares some opinions from respected people in the "social business" world.Reference: 1:9:90 RuleMike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: 400+ Management & Leadership models in PowerPoint Format Download NOW … [Read more...] about Social Business – Incentivising Staff to Collaborate?

Daily Maintenance for your workers We all know that our cars, and office/ business machinery needs regular attention & maintenance. So do our people.If we do not keep our people in "good working order", then their productivity drops, costs increase, and often situations become difficult for everyone.This graphic looks at safety and health is an interesting and fun way.So how do you get the best out of your people?Do you provide the cheapest working environment you can or the … [Read more...] about Daily Maintenance for your workers

Social Media - Give before receivingYesterday, on returning to my office from a business trip I had the usual swamp of emails to clear. I don't know about you, but I am finding it harder and harder to sort much of the spam from potentially useful messages.I am an outlook users, and over the years I have set up a number of filters to move certain types of posts to help both inbox management, along with managing much of the 200+ spam emails I get a day. One of my folder sets is for … [Read more...] about Social Media – Give before receiving

Business Finance - How do you measure up? Love it or hate it, but having data and control of the finances of a business is like the blood flowing around your body. Without it flowing, you are dead. Equally even if it is flowing, but poisoned, it will do a lot of damage very quickly.But it is more than having that cash flowing, it is about understanding where it comes from and goes to.The team at Intuit have compiled this interesting look at businesses and their attitude to … [Read more...] about Business Finance – How do you measure up?

How to Train Your Employees On Social Media It's happened, it's here and it's not going away.Social media cannot be avoided by putting the organisational head in the sand any longer. It is a pervasive part of the world in which we live and operate.Equally we cannot realistically afford to hire huge teams to manage this for us. Sure we need to manage the "problems" as they occur, but we also need advocates. And the best advocates we have available are those already choosing to work for … [Read more...] about How to Train Your Employees On Social Media

To email or not to email... now that is the question... From time to time we all have a moan or complain about the volume of emails we get, of course its always other people that send the stuff we don't want or are not interested in. We would NEVER do such things... would we?Published by the fast company and based on the now infamous Atos state of banning all emails, this summary of some key points, and a rational for emailing or not, has some interesting points to consider.How would … [Read more...] about To email or not to email… now that is the question…

Reclaim your weekend - 7 Time-Savers for the Overworked  Our universal desire is to have control over what we do - a sensible work-life balance if you like.However many of us still regularly work over the weekend. a significant percentage of us do not use our holiday/ vacation allowance in full.Many traditional "white collar" workers are working excessive unpaid overtime, causing some to become stressed and sometimes overwhelmed. Stressed or not, an inappropriate balance is not … [Read more...] about Reclaim your weekend – 7 Time-Savers for the Overworked

7 Reasons to Embrace Ssocial Media The skills of social media continue to be important. The data shown in this graphic shows that consumers are increasing their grip on social media.What does this mean for business? Using social media as a customer is different from using it as a supplier or an employee.To really harness social media fully without having a massive team to manage it means empowering and encouraging more staff to support the brand/ company. This will mean a new form of … [Read more...] about 7 Reasons to Embrace Social Media

Common Human Resources (HR) Metrics One of the most common questions around Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other metrics for HR is "what should I measure". This is a common question found on many HR groups and forums.Increasingly in organisations, Human Capital Measurement and Reporting is rising on the agenda. The UK Government department BIS conducted some interesting research and produced this paper showing a British perspective.The graphic below depicts some of the critical … [Read more...] about Common Human Resources (HR) Metrics

The ultimate test of a real blog and it's value to its readers is how valuable people find its contents.Do you blog on sites that are not your own? If so, then consider the following questions:Would you copy & paste the entire blog entry on to your own site? Would if you were a magazine editor include the blog as an article in the magazine?If your answer is no to either of these questions, then what you have written is not a blog. Of course, here I am talking about … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Test of a Real Business Blog and it’s Value