ConnectMinds | Weekly Digest | 3. June 2022
Fresh Insights | Upcoming Events | Member Questions
Bright minds everywhere,
Here is your weekly digest, listing:
News & insights from across the network; will hopefully inspire you.
Events 6 weeks ahead; check that you / your team are signed up!
Help fellow members asking for input; add your insights and ideas!
We hope you like it - do let us know either way.
Stay connected!
Your ConnectMinds Team
Fresh Insights & Updates
TOPIC: Employee Advocacy | WHAT: ConnectMinds Comment (article)
Read the article
"It’s not advocacy. It’s corporate spamming!"
TOPIC: Launching EXPLORER Groups | WHAT: Description of format
We are launching the first EXPLORER groups; topic focused, ambitious and location independent groups with fewer members.
Purpose
A small number of organisations with a shared vision, challenge or objective in one clearly defined area dive deep together to make more rapid progress, add perspective, minimise risk and increase the likelihood of success.
TOPIC: Help us grow the network and get rewarded | WHAT: ConnectMinds launches referral campaign
Introduce a new member who signs up their organisation for a year’s membership and we will reward you with a valuable gift. We have three to choose from.
Check it out; think through who in your personal network would benefit from a resourceful, international network and send them to the info page
Events 6 weeks ahead
ConNectMinds ANYWHERE
Focus: Creating an Experience-led organisation with ROX (Return on Experience)
Expert speaker: Sujay Saha
Where: online
Date: 8. June 2022
Time: 11.00- 12.15pm EDT || 4.00 - 5.15pm BST || 17.00 - 18.15 CET
ConnectMinds CURATOR
Where: online
Date: 16. June 2022
Time: 09.00- 10.15am EDT || 2.00 - 3.15pm BST || 15.00 - 16.15 CET
Focus: Celebrating innovative and inspiring work by members.
ON LOCATION | in person meetings in local groups
14. June 2022
🇨🇦 TORONTO | Leading the Employee Experience
15. June 2022
🇨🇦 TORONTO | Leading with a DIgital Mindset (GROUP LAUNCH)
20. June 2022
🇨🇭 GENEVA | Leading the Employee Experience
21. June 2022
🇬🇧 SCOTLAND | Leading the Employee Experience
21. June 2022
🇩🇪 STUTTGART | Leading the Employee Experience
22. June 2022
🇬🇧 SCOTLAND | Leading with a Digital Mindset
23. June 2022
🇩🇰 København | Leading the Employee Experience (DANISH SPEAKING)
28. June 2022
🇬🇧 LONDON | Leading the Employee Experience
Help fellow members
Topic: The best way forward from a currently fragmented and disconnected intranet experience
Nick Oldford at ThermoFisher Scientific in Boston:
Since we redid our intranet back in 2016/2017, we have seen that various groups and functions (HR, our Learning site, our PPI platform, and others) have jumped out of SharePoint and launched their own systems using other vendors. (3 or 4 "big ones" and a lot of other lower hanging systems used around the business, which consequently live in silos - unless you know the URL.
This fragmentation, partly as a consequence of the many disconnected systems, leads to our colleagues getting confused and frustrated about where to go to find what they need. We are working to move our current intranet to Modern Sharepoint, which is a huge undertaking and it forced us to pause and take a step back to figure out if that is where we want to invest and is there a better way.
We are working to identify our stakeholder and figure out what it is they need in an intranet and where the painpoints are. We are meeting with various vendors (Microsoft, service now, others?) to see what they have to offer and get their vision for their products.
The short term goal is to change our point of entry or front door for colleagues and create some sort of connection with either search, targeted webparts or other between the various systems.
Has anyone else gone through this recently; vendor selection, figuring out what questions to ask their employees and stakeholders and the process they went through?
Topic: Developing a mobile strategy for employee communications
Steve Schmidt in Philadelphia and Chris Stewart in Vancouver; both working at QVC (Quarate Retail):
We are developing a new mobile strategy for employees across their enterprise and are keen to talk to anyone who has experience with this. If you have and would be willing to share your insights, get in touch.
Topic: Experience with interpreting employee channel analytics
Ernst Décsey - Digital Workplace Specialist at Unicef in Geneva
At Unicef, we have been trying to come up with a good framework for a long time, but we don't think we are there.
If you have increasing numbers (unique page views, likes, stories,...) is this a good thing? Is there another way at measuring internal communications success.
Any insights?
Thank you
We appreciate having you in our network - more now than ever before - and look forward to many more fruitful discussions. Stay connected!