The fourth ConnectingHR Unconference is looking at the power of a socially engaged organisation.
Delegates spent some time discussing the issues around this topic (using the world cafe process) and then posted the issues they wanted to discuss further on to a grid. They then went off in to groups to discuss the issues.
Here is a list of the issues that were put on the grid. They provide an insight into what HR professionals see as the issues around developing a more socially engaged organisation.
- How do you get the company to trust the people?
- Social media must not replace face to face
- Perception of risk – tackling paranoia around transparency and collaboration
- Culture to maintain/establish a community
- Social media a steroid to networking of L&D
- Overcoming resistance
- You can’t force social – we must nurture and help people to find or see the need and demonstrate the value to individuals and business
- Fear of mob mentality – moderation – parent/child mentality
- HR versus IT – challenge the social media policy
- Social media controls – positive or negative?
- How to influence the people who don’t believe social networking is a great tool.
- What to do about individuals who are unable/unwilling to use social media (social media is not for everyone
- What is the best way to build a community – broad or narrow, with or without context
- What about blue collar workers?
- Culture shift? How? What’s the starting point?
- Can tools change culture? Or does culture change with new tools?
- We can’t control social phenomenon
- How can we talk about love, trust, freedom at work, without being laughed out of the room?
- Do I want to live my life in public?
- How do we engage people using social media without disengaging those who don’t want to engage with it?
- How do you engage people with social media without disengaging those who don’t want to engage with it?
- Balance of power – in authority versus an authority
- Practical examples of behaviour that improves culture
- Social: personal versus work life, internal versus external
- What happens when organisations can’t organise?
- The mixed messages around ‘forced’ work-life balance and the choice to work when and how I choose . . . I decide.
- How important is role modelling? Practise what you preach. what behaviours do you reward? How do you reward?
- Is social media at work a white collar privilege?
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