Developing Personal Resilience is not something that can be demanded and argued for through logic and reasoning. It is a change movement of profound personal impact.
Asking your colleagues to become resilient and then telling them why they should do it, is not going to cut it. Something else is required.
Top five articles from 2018
Five of our most pouplar articles from 2018.
Read moreStewards over gatekeepers: Three Principles for Partnerships
Worse still is when a gatekeeper seeks to maintain broken aspects of the business’ status quo to serve their own self-interest, thereby failing in their duty to the institution or other partners. Stewards are “possibility engineers”. Gatekeepers are “progress suppressors”. Be a steward not a gatekeeper when working in partnerships.
Read moreThe next phase of CMS: Our most innovative solutions will come from integration
Content management systems are now easy to navigate and use for professionals with little or no coding skills. So what kind of innovations are we seeing in the field today? And what will these mean for people who use a CMS for their work?
Read moreI will forever be known as the ‘pain guy’ in that crowd
I didn’t know what to expect going into the Boye 18 conference. The fact that the conference was in the Danish town of Aarhus, not the most famous of conference towns, should have given me a hint as to the special nature of this festival, which in hindsight seems to be a more accurate word than conference.
Read moreCommunication: How to reclaim relevance on social media for 2019
In 2018 many people have re-considered their love-hate relationship with social media following the scandals surrounding Facebook. Digital strategist and award-winning thought leader on social media Sharon O’Dea recommends that communicators and marketers try and do the same for 2019:
Read moreHow AI Assistants will impact businesses and consumers
Then, on a nice Monday morning, the assistant would tell us that we have resigned from our current job, and that we are starting a job at another company. Of course, that job is better paid and with more perspective than the one at our previous company.
Read moreModern agile means doing things very differently than ten years ago
Agile has been with us for more than ten years. At its core, it relies heavily on adaptiveness. So why are so many organizations still trying to implement agile the way it was done ten years ago?
Read moreIt’s the people using it that will make or break any search application
Too often we don’t find what we are looking for when using the organization’s own search application. Whether it’s on the corporate site or the intranet. As a result, we waste time, scrolling for the content or fleeing back to Google, because we accept a somewhat saddening fact; that Google has a seemingly better overview of our content than anyone in our own organization.
Read moreUnleash digital talent to achieve transformation
Despite billions of pounds of investment in technology and organisational change across the private and public sector, managers and employees can feel that ‘transformation’ is an unachievable ideal. By its very nature, transformation should be finite – with a beginning, middle and end. And both managers and employees should be able to see the progression at every stage.
Read moreSix strategic steps for succeeding with digital communication
If you google “communication tips”, you will get a large number of articles such as “Three ways to use [insert latest hot digital tool]”. While simple tips like these are great, they usually won’t help you beyond the current season. In times of constant change, we also need something more substantial that we can strive towards.
Read moreContent and collaboration: Your transformation strategy?
Every transformation effort requires a strategy - a plan for the activities and a clear vision to make it happen. When it comes to sustainable change, teams require a structured and systematic approach to ensure that people, processes, and technology are considered. Taking this broader view ensures that we think past common obstacles and shift thinking past a “project mentality”, into a “practice mentality”.
Read moreEnterprise social collaboration is a myth. Think smaller.
It’s in the name: Enterprise social networks. Tools for the workplace that facilitate enterprise-wide collaboration. A place for everyone to connect to anyone.
Read moreThe digital workplace: Why are we still not collaborating effectively?
What tools are you using to communicate and collaborate in your organization? If you are like me and many others, you have at some point turned to unofficial channels, even though you have several official tools at your disposal.
Read moreThe democratization of MarTech: New possibilities and challenges
In the past marketers had to go through IT for the marketing tools they need. Today marketing technology is widespread, easy to adopt and use. It’s been taken out of the hands of IT, and placed into the hands of marketers practically everywhere.
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