Posts tagged with Social Business:
What Are the Benefits of Having an Organizational Chart in Your Startup?
As a growing start-up company, implementing an organizational chart may not be on your list of top priorities. You may think “why should I have an organizational structure when I only have twenty employees, and everyone knows their role?” It … Continue reading
Social Media Makes Us More Honest in the Workplace
At 7Geese, we are well on our way to change the meaning of performance review – Goodbye the traditional paper-based form filling process that creates many problems and Hello integrating performance management with social media to provide real time coaching … Continue reading
Hiring For Cultural Fit: Why it’s Important and How to Go About It
Recently, I attended a talk on recruiting where the speaker asked the audience the following question: “What is the biggest cost for a company?” Most attendees answered “people” and then the speaker disapproved by saying “it’s not the people, it’s … Continue reading
How to Communicate and Integrate Your Core Values Into Your Organization
In my previous blog, we have discussed the importance of core values and how to set them in your organization. The next step is to communicate and integrate these core values into your organization, which I’ll be discussing in this blog post. … Continue reading
Transform your tech company from Good to Great (3/7) – Confront the Brutal Facts
This post is part of my series on how to apply the concepts of the book Good to Great, by Jim Collins, to tech companies. In this post, I’m going to discuss the concept of “Confronting the Brutal Facts without loosing faith” as it applies to tech companies. This post is even more useful for tech startups, where confronting the brutal facts and yet not loosing faith can seem impossible. Continue reading
Transform your tech company from Good to Great (2/7) – First Who…Then What
This post is part of my series on how to apply the concepts of the book Good to Great by Jim Collins to tech companies. In this post, I’m going to discuss the concept of “First Who…Then What” and why it’s important in tech companies to get the right people first and then set the right strategy… Continue reading
The new era of workforce-as-a-service is here
Last week, I attended a fireside chat event with Gary Swart, the CEO of oDesk, where I was blown away by the concept of an on-demand online workforce and how Gary predicts by 2020, one in every three employees in the workforce will work remotely online. Continue reading
Learn from Yammer and become an adaptive tech company
Yammer is a social enterprise software vendor that was recently acquired by Microsoft for $1.2B. A few weeks ago, the 7Geese team attended Yammer’s Hacktoberfest hackathon during their YamJam Annual Conference. Numan, Kevin, and I (shown in pictures below) built … Continue reading
Richard Branson’s alternative approach to – Hire Slow, Fire Fast – when dealing with poor performers
I’ve recently moved to San Francisco to open a 7Geese office here, and for the past couple of days, I’ve been attending Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce event at the Moscone center in downtown San Francisco. My favourite part of Dreamforce so far has been … Continue reading
Why having a keg in your office does not create a strong company culture
Every company I talk to understands the importance of having a great culture and how company culture can be used as a competitive advantage to build a great brand, to recruit and retain talent, and to build strong relationships with your customers and vendors. However, there is a common misconception these days, especially in tech startups, that having perks like free snacks, food, beer, whiskey, game room, music room, nap room, and ping pong tables creates a strong company culture Continue reading
Stop the Social Business Madness at your Workplace
I recently re-watched one of my favorite TED talks titled “The Power of Introverts” by Susan Cain. Susan’s claim that today’s workplaces are becoming overly social and teamwork-oriented hit home for me, and in this blog post, I will build … Continue reading
Why Traditional Employee Recognition Programs are Broken and How to Fix Them
Employee recognition programs have been around for a long time and there is no doubt that employees who feel recognized are happier, more productive, more engaged, and less likely to leave your company. However, traditional employee recognition programs have limitations … Continue reading
Infographic: Importance of feedback in business and its evolution
How do we become remarkable at work? We ask questions, we challenge assumptions, and we request feedback to improve! Employee feedback is necessary for both employees to advance their careers and companies to enhance their performance. Today over 90% of … Continue reading
Leading Gen Y’s in a Multi-Generational Workforce
Today’s workplace looks and feels very different than it did only 10 years ago – if you haven’t noticed it already, there is a demographic shift of employees that has directly affected how we work. This shift is set to make waves for companies and in this… Continue reading
Business Value of Employee Engagement & How to Measure Employee Engagement
To be remarkable in today’s fast-paced business environment, companies need an engaged and motivated group of employees who are passionate about their organization’s success. Many business leaders and HR professionals have a hard time measuring the impact of engagement in … Continue reading
Benefits of Implementing an ‘UNLIMITED’ or ‘NO’ Vacation Policy
Many of us have experience with vacation policies either administering them or using them as an employee. And each company’s vacation policy is unique because it reflects their culture and management style; moreover, these policies have evolved over time and … Continue reading
How to Avoid Accumulating Management Debt
You have probably heard of the term Technical Debt, which is the debt you accumulate by choosing quick and dirty short cuts when building your software or any other technology product. You usually have to pay back the accumulated technical … Continue reading
Use your company culture as your competitive advantage
In today’s competitive world, many companies are striving to differentiate based on cheaper prices and offering better products or services. However, it is becoming more and more difficult to differentiate based on these factors. Competitors quickly pick-up on what you … Continue reading
Thriving as an HR professional in a social business era
Yesterday, I was amazed when SalesForce.com announced it’s acquisition of Rypple, a social performance management software provider. Salesforce mentioned that it will re-launch Rypple as “Successforce” and create a new social HCM business unit. Also earlier this week, the social business … Continue reading
Social Goals, a buzzword that may stick around
There is a new buzz word flying around these days in company performance management talks. It’s “social goals”. Social goals do not refer to society or humanity goals as the name sounds. Social goals in the context of a company are goals that have been made visible to everyone, enabling teams to easily … Continue reading
Bringing Sexy Back with Goals
In my last post I covered the importance of having goals inside your company and I mentioned the fact that many companies fail at setting goals, making them visible, and following through with goals. In my next few blog posts, I will cover how to avoid failing with goals and how to overcome goal related problems inside your company. A common challenge with company goal setting is that they are not perceived as sexy by your team. Continue reading
