A new study found that an overwhelming number of employees blame poor collaboration for failures in the workplace. Here’s an infographic that explores where these collaboration breakdowns happen — and how to prevent them in the future.
The past few years have seen a huge surge in the number of Facebook-related firings at work. Here are 5 ways to set a standardized social media policy that won't get your employees fired.
Recently, while waiting to board a flight at Chicago’s Midway airport, my iPhone lost its signal. Suddenly I felt helpless — completely cut off from the digital lifelines that connect me to the office regardless of where I happen to be. To say that smartphones have become indispensable to our daily lives is to vastly [...]
How do you maintain a vibrant workplace culture — and keep employees aligned and engaged — in a period of hyper-growth? In the last year, LivingSocial’s global workforce has grown from 600 employees to 5,000. Last week at Cloudforce D.C., LivingSocial’s director of global HR operations, Colleen Wood, shared the social commerce company’s secrets for maintaining [...]
How does social performance management software help collaborative teams get the most out of work? Yesterday, our VP Product Management, Maksim Ovsyannikov, joined Sanjay Mathur of LiveOps on a panel at GigaOM’s annual Net:Work 2011 conference to give some insights on how to engage and motivate collaborative teams. The panel focused on how feedback loops [...]
What makes a great team? Is it the people, the environment in which they work, or they way they work together? This week's articles explore ways to bring out the best in individuals and teams.
