In today’s webcast, Mike Gotta from the Burton Group stimulated great ideas on the power of employee/talent networks.
What are your thoughts about how employee networks can develop collaboration as a critical competency?
Please post your comments below and on Mike’s blog too at http://mikeg.typepad.com
Also, please share the internation re-cast times below with your networks so you can discuss these ideas with them as well 
Title: Connectivity Powers Talent: Leveraging Employee Social Networks
When: Fri, Jul 18 2008 / 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Presented By: Mike Gotta , Principal Analyst , Burton Group
Recast Dates
Mon, Jul 21 2008 / 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET
Mon, Jul 21 2008 / 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
Tue, Jul 22 2008 / 12:00 AM - 1:00 AM ET
Tue, Jul 22 2008 / 4:00 AM - 5:00 AM ET
Here are some related areas HCI members would like to explore… please add your posts below…
- Question: Are there ways to expedite the team development process for flung teams so that people ‘trust’ each other and become productive even when they can’t see each other? videoconf not withstanding.
- Question: In establishing enterprise social networks, should the information exchange be limited to business content or expanded to additional social content?
- Question: What will be a good way to introduce and tied these to corporate culture? Is there a clear impact in productivity? any research?
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July 20th, 2008 at 7:38 am
I think connecting talented employees with other people in an organisation is critical (if not the most critical thing) to their development. This is both to give them the opportunities to work with others but also to experience how to deal with different people and situations.
Organisations have a role to facilitate the process but individuals also need to take some responsibility themselves by seeking out others.
Chris
http://learn2develop.blogspot.com
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 am
Thanks for your comment, Chris and initiating a dialog. I think the idea of developing talent by facilitating networking to people in other organizations is the ultimate outsourcing approach to talent development…one to one or one to many. It’s a win-win all around…individuals develop and bring their energized ideas back into the organization if companies encourage sharing know-how thru knowledge management (a related topic).