Archive for Collaboration
Boss + SharePoint = Big Love
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A Three-Part Love Story
Part 1: The SharePoint Matchmaker, You Are
One of the most common questions I’m asked from IT and business leaders alike is how do they make the case for SharePoint in their organization? Most people who use SharePoint understand its potential to solve common business problems. But they have difficulty communicating the real value of SharePoint to the executives in their company making the budget decisions.
So where do you start? You begin by becoming a SharePoint Matchmaker. Don’t like the new role? How about Business Analyst? A SharePoint Matchmaker is essentially a business analyst focused on the business and technology of SharePoint. If you happen to be a business analyst already then this is going to be fun! (No, really – fun!)
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Unleash The Power of Team-Based Learning
Posted by: |Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (March, 2011)
In A-CHIEVE! (February 2011), we featured the Disengagement Epidemic impacting 33% of the U.S. workforce (25 million employees) at an annual lost productivity cost of $416 billion. We also shared how to keep your employees engaged – through “human connectedness” create an environment where your employees feel that they’re a part of the team, feel that they’re respected and valued and feel that they’re learning and growing. Enter Team-Based Learning (TBL), which, when structured correctly, not only engages your workforce, but accelerates business goal attainment, solves a multitude of challenges plus delivers high impact results!
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Orange Village works with TechEdge
Posted by: |ORANGE VILLAGE — Mayor Kathy Mulcahy has introduced a team builder coach to council to help with the dynamic of the group.
Gwen Walsh, president of TechEdge, LLC, has come to the village to help the mayor and council have a better dynamic and to improve their communication skills.
Mulcahy said Walsh works towards collaborative leadership in her company.
“She’s keeping my eyes open to the possibility that somewhere in the middle of the negative things, there is some well-intentioned and well-meaning comments that need to be considered. We need to work better with communication,” Mulcahy said.
Walsh, an Orange resident, was presented to council at the Jan. 5 meeting. Mulcahy said Walsh was upset about the community dynamic in Orange and approached the mayor about her services after the Issue 116 election. The mayor said she studied what Walsh offered through her company and the goals she had and decided she was “absolutely right on target and has the skills to help.”
“Even if I can’t get everyone to participate, I will work with her to make whatever unilateral changes I can make and maybe it will trigger others for change,” Mulcahy said. Click here to read the full article.
