SharePoint Saturday Austin: What's In It for Me? Driving User Adoption and Employee Engagement
1. "What's in it for me?" User Adoption & Employee
Engagement Strategies for Enterprise Social
Computing Projects(Making SharePoint Sexy)
Prepared for:
SharePoint Saturday Austin
January 21, 2012
Jeff Willinger
@jwillie
2. About Jeff
Director of Social Computing, Intranets and Collaboration
at Rightpoint.
Named the #1 SharePoint Influencer to watch in 2012
Regular speaker and evangelist on the value of Social
Networking, Social Media and Social Computing
Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn Expert.
I am buying YOU a beer or cocktail TODAY!
Follow @jwillie and Tweet this:
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4. LIKE Jeff
Director of Social Computing at Rightpoint.
Rightpoint is a Gold Certified and Managed Microsoft
Partner with a specialization in MOSS 2007, Collaboration
& Social Networking.
Regular speaker and evangelist on the value of Social
Networking, Social Media and Social Computing
Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn Expert.
I am buying YOU lunch TODAY!
Tweet this:
“ Listening to @jwillie rant and rave about SharePoint,
social computing and employee engagement #aliee ”
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5. Session Objectives
Overview:
• Discuss why many enterprise social computing projects
miss the mark due to lack of employee engagement
and low end-user adoption. Show what is in the social
sphere and what you can do outside your 4 walls.
Key take-away:
• Provide a framework that drives employee
engagement & end-user adoption enabling
organizations to realize the full benefit of their
enterprise social computing return on investment.
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6. Definition
Social Intranet (sō’shəl) • (ĭn’trə-nĕt’) An intranet
that utilizes social technologies to enhance the every
day activities and transactions necessary for
employees to learn, plan and do their jobs thereby
making them more engaged and productive.
Increases employee engagement and user adoption if
deployed properly(possibly SharePoint 2010).
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7. LIKE Jeff
Director of Social Computing at Rightpoint.
Rightpoint is a Gold Certified and Managed Microsoft
Partner with a specialization in MOSS 2007, Collaboration
& Social Networking.
Regular speaker and evangelist on the value of Social
Networking, Social Media and Social Computing
Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn Expert.
I am buying YOU lunch TODAY!
Tweet this:
“ Listening to @jwillie rant and rave about SharePoint,
social computing and employee engagement #aliee ”
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8. Myths
Some of the Employee Engagement Myths
• Size matters
• I’m too busy
• It won’t pay off
• The business won’t care
• Should “corporate” or marketing own this?
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9. Truths Part 1
Your old, standard intranet is one-way
communication. A social intranet is two-way
communication.
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10. Truths Part 2
Key Learning’s for building engagement:
• Be clear on where you are different and that it’s the
right fit. You must be believable and relevant.
• Start somewhere and keep the message simple.
• Make it “personal” to create emotional
engagement with the brand.
• Provide “new news” to enhance your recruiting and
retention efforts.
• It starts with external activities. Awards are noticed
by the Team, Executives, Employees, Suppliers and
Community.
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11. Truths Part 2
Key Learning’s for building engagement:
• Be clear on where you are different and that it’s the
right fit. You must be believable and relevant.
• Start somewhere and keep the message simple.
• Make it “personal” to create emotional
engagement with the brand.
• Provide “new News” to enhance your recruiting
and retention efforts.
• It starts with external activities. Awards are noticed
by the Team, Executives, Employees, Suppliers and
Community.
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12. Portal & Collaboration
Pitfalls & Best Practices
1. Don’t bite off more than you can chew.
• Do: Think big, but start small.
2. Don’t overcomplicate the user interface.
• Do: Keep it simple (KISS).
3. Don’t assume user adoption will happen.
• Do: “If you build it, they will come” doesn’t necessarily
work. Ensure (1) business goals, (2) end-user goals and
(3) technology goals in completely in sync.
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13. Portal & Collaboration
Pitfalls & Best Practices
4. Don’t underestimate the importance of
governance and alignment with your culture.
• Do: Put a proper governance plan in place day 1 and
align your solution with your culture.
5. Don’t “customize” when you can “configure”.
• Do: Leverage out-of-the-box features whenever
possible.
6. Don’t underestimate the breadth of SharePoint’s
capabilities.
• Do: Educate yourself on what is possible with the
platform
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14. Outside the 4 walls tools for social engagement
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23. Our Experience
Not Going Excited
to Adopt Adopters
(33%) (33%)
On the Fence
(33%)
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24. Our Goal
Not Going
to Adopt Critical
(33%) Mass:
Excited
Adopters
(66%)
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25. Why Do Some Enterprise
Social Computing Projects
Miss The Mark?
26. Top 3 Reasons Why Some Enterprise
Social Computing Projects Miss The Mark
1. Stakeholders don’t start with “Why?”.
2. End-users don’t fully understand
“What’s in it for me?”
3. The user experience is not as “engaging” and
“intuitive” as mainstream social media tools.
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27. A Recipe for Failure
Typical enterprise social computing project:
Requirements Design & Training &
Testing Pilot Launch
Definition Configuration Deployment
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29. A Framework for Success
How?
What?
Why?
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30. How?
A Framework for Success What?
Why?
Why? What? How?
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31. A Framework for Success
Why are we doing this?
1. Accelerate innovation
2. Improve expertise discovery Why?
3. Enhance knowledge management
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32. A Framework for Success
What’s in it for me?
1. Communicate how the solution
helps me personally achieve success. What?
2. Communicate usage best practices
through anecdotes and other methods.
3. Identifies the specific behavioral
barriers that will prevent users from
adopting the solution.
‒ Users don't want to be bothered with another system.
‒ Are users concerned about having contributions public and uncensored?
‒ Do end-users fully understand the benefits?
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33. A Framework for Success
How do we make it effortless?
1. Less is more
2. Design an effective user experience How?
3. Enable intuitive features
How do we deploy?
• What is the ideal pilot?
• How do we educate and train end users?
• How do we organically manage our community?
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43. Client Profile: Abbott
Industry:
Health & Life Sciences
Business Pain:
No facility to bring employees
together to facilitate knowledge
sharing, innovation, idea generation
and user generated content through
a community-based portal.
Rightpoint Solution:
New Web 2.0 SharePoint solution
enables communities, shared
bookmarks, IdeaCenter,
collaboration sites, user generated
content with voting and moderated
discussion forums.
50. Takeaways part 1
1. Build a connected internal communications
infrastructure that is aligned to your brand messages
2. Integrate internal branding communications
across traditionally separated departments to enable
consistent messaging and total organization buy-in
3. Align the internal and external brand to achieve
the look & feel of brand consistency
4. Evaluate the next stage of social media utility for
job processes and desired internal brand behaviors
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51. Takeaways part 2
5. Clarify what's expected of employees
6. Offer internal career opportunities
7. Empower frontline employees
8. Encourage teamwork
6. Provide regular feedback
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Hinweis der Redaktion
1. Clarify what's expected of employees It's essential that your team members know what's expected of them. They receive job descriptions when they first start, but that's not enough. Clear expectations ensure everyone is working towards the same goal. Putting things in writing is a valuable step to avoid confusion that can occur if verbal instructions are the only instructions. 2. Offer internal career opportunities No one wants to feel they are stuck in a dead end job. If you consider current team members for promotion before going outside the organization, employees will be more willing to stay because they can see room for improvement and promotion if they perform well. Give them opportunities to learn and grow within their role. Make it clear that your desire is to promote internally when possible. This will also minimize people looking elsewhere for new jobs without your knowledge. 3. Empower frontline employees Are your team members able to use discretion when handling customer complaints? Do they always seek permission for something that isn't within their power to correct? Frustration can build up if frontline employees are powerless to take immediate action to satisfy a disgruntled customer. If they can save a customer from having to wait for someone to take action, it's a win-win. 4. Encourage teamwork Employees should work together and support each other. It's essential to a healthy and positive work environment. People also learn from watching other team members interact with customers. No amount of training can prepare a new employee for what happens better than observing skilled team members, regardless of whether they're working with easy or difficult customers. If team members offer each other support, they will be able to get through any difficulties they may encounter without involving a supervisor. 5. Provide regular feedback It's crucial to give all employees regular feedback on their performance. Regardless of whether they're excelling at their job or are new to the company, they need to know where they stand. Are they doing everything they're supposed to be doing? Are they doing too much? If they arrive late all the time and leave early, address that. If they're doing other people's work because some people are lazy, you should address that as well. 1. Clarify what's expected of employees It's essential that your team members know what's expected of them. They receive job descriptions when they first start, but that's not enough. Clear expectations ensure everyone is working towards the same goal. Putting things in writing is a valuable step to avoid confusion that can occur if verbal instructions are the only instructions. 2. Offer internal career opportunities No one wants to feel they are stuck in a dead end job. If you consider current team members for promotion before going outside the organization, employees will be more willing to stay because they can see room for improvement and promotion if they perform well. Give them opportunities to learn and grow within their role. Make it clear that your desire is to promote internally when possible. This will also minimize people looking elsewhere for new jobs without your knowledge. 3. Empower frontline employees Are your team members able to use discretion when handling customer complaints? Do they always seek permission for something that isn't within their power to correct? Frustration can build up if frontline employees are powerless to take immediate action to satisfy a disgruntled customer. If they can save a customer from having to wait for someone to take action, it's a win-win. 4. Encourage teamwork Employees should work together and support each other. It's essential to a healthy and positive work environment. People also learn from watching other team members interact with customers. No amount of training can prepare a new employee for what happens better than observing skilled team members, regardless of whether they're working with easy or difficult customers. If team members offer each other support, they will be able to get through any difficulties they may encounter without involving a supervisor. 5. Provide regular feedback It's crucial to give all employees regular feedback on their performance. Regardless of whether they're excelling at their job or are new to the company, they need to know where they stand. Are they doing everything they're supposed to be doing? Are they doing too much? If they arrive late all the time and leave early, address that. If they're doing other people's work because some people are lazy, you should address that as well.