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Remote work has dramatically increased over the past few years—and the number of people working remotely is only expected to grow in coming years. For example, the Economist Report: Future Workforce report from freelance work platform Upwork projected that, by 2025,...
Managing a project is a big responsibility. There are a lot of moving parts, from how to assign tasks to how to manage communication to how to ensure deliverables are being completed on time. And if you don’t manage all of those moving parts effectively, it could lead...
Remote meetings are a key part of all remote and hybrid organizations. But remote meetings aren’t always the most effective. For example, according to the State of Virtual Meetings 2021 report, a whopping 94 percent of employees admit to multi-tasking during remote...
Intranets are powerful social tools. They can empower better collaboration, knowledge management and sharing, and networking across your organization—whether your team works remotely, in the office, or a combination of both. This can lead to serious benefits for your...
If you want to inspire your team to do better, more efficient work it starts with creating better internal communication within your organization. According to data from RingCentral, a whopping 97 percent of workers surveyed said that communications impacted their...
We’re in the middle of the Great Resignation where employees are leaving their jobs at record rates. According to data from the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 24 million Americans left their jobs during the second half of 2021—and...
The right internal communications strategy is a must if you want your organization to thrive. However,according to data from consulting firm Arthur J. Gallagher, 60 percent of companies lack a long-term internal communications strategy. And even in companies that do...
If organizations want to empower their team’s best work, they need to create a framework for open and effective communication—or, in other words, they need to build a solid internal communications strategy. But for many organizations, how to build that strategy...
2021 has been an uncertain year for businesses. Many companies made the decision to permanently shift to remote or hybrid work—and had to figure out how to best support their teams and keep things moving forward. And as pandemic-related challenges continue, that...
The experience your employees have while working at your company—also known as employee experience—has a profound impact on the success of your organization. For example, when you create a positive employee experience, it can drive employee engagement—and when...
Your application portfolio is an essential part of your company’s success. The apps you include in your portfolio can increase efficiency across your business, streamline operations, and empower your team to do their best work. But companies’ application portfolios...
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Employees are looking for more flexibility in how, when, and where they work—with the majority preferring to split their time between working from home and working in the office. According to The Future of Work: Productive Anywhere report from Accenture, 83 percent of...
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The way we work is evolving—and in order for employees to perform at the highest level, CIOs will need to be strategic when planning the evolution of the workstation. But what, exactly, does that look like? Tony George is the Chief Operating Office of Denver-based...
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If you want to build the best, most successful company, you need to hire the best, most successful people. But competition for talent can be fierce—and if you want to attract top talent, you need to do everything you can to make your workplace as attractive as...
There are few things that impact your organization’s success more than your team—and, more specifically, how engaged your team is with their work. An engaged team is more productive—and performs at a higher level—than a disengaged team. According to 2017 Gallup...
COVID-19 forced companies across the globe to send their workers home—where many have been working remotely for the past year. But while many employees have embraced the flexibility of working from home, the majority are ready to get back into the office—at least part...
Today, work doesn’t happen under one roof—and that’s especially true for multi-site businesses. These types of companies have locations and employees scattered across different regions, time zones, and sometimes even languages.That’s a positive thing, as it means the...
In the wake of COVID-19, more people than ever are working from home. And as a huge portion of the workforce has shifted to remote operations, the line between “work life” and “home life” has become blurred—and, as a result, many employees feel the pressure to be...
Having first appeared in the early 1990s, intranets have become an essential tool to facilitate the flow of information, improve internal communication and connect entire organizations. Thus, in 2020, 85% of all companies will have an intranet.¹ At first glance,...
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Imposed during the 2020 confinements, teleworking highlighted the psychosocial risks (PSR) associated with this work mode. Anxiety, hyperconnectivity, isolation, management difficulties... so many pitfalls that can be avoided if companies create the ideal conditions...
Fatigue, stress, burnout, musculoskeletal disorders... Hybrid work exposes employees to numerous psychosocial risks (PSR) that directly impact their quality of life at work. Tackling these various risks requires companies to be proactive and implement a series of...
The year 2020 hasn't exactly been easy for human resources. Having to adapt to a totally unpredictable health crisis, the HR function needed to take on new responsibilities and support the implementation of new work methods. In this uncertain environment, anticipation...
Hybrid work, which combines office and remote work, is now THE working model of the modern world. Although it has been around for several years, it is only since mid-2020 (and the first lockdown due to the COVID pandemic) that it has really taken off. This new way of...
According to this Adecco study, nearly 80% of the world's leaders believe that their companies will now organize themselves according to a hybrid work model. How will managers have to adapt? And what skills will they have to develop to cope with this new work...
Company culture plays a key role in talent retention. According to a 2019 Glassdoor survey, 56% of employees believe it's even more important than their salary. Fine, but how do you maintain that business culture with a remote workforce? In order to adapt to changing...
Roughly three quarters of French employees say they would like to adopt a hybrid work method. Such is the conclusion of this Adecco Group study published in June 2020. Although it has already been around for several years, hybrid work (i.e. the combination of office...
Deploying a tool that creates internal cohesion, centralizes exchanges and facilitates collaboration for more than 500 employees has been the project carried out in... just three weeks by Amicio (ex-Relaytion), a company with an international presence. This is a feat...
If for some companies, teleworking has already become a common practice (especially in the context of the COVID crisis), for the majority of them the challenge is still to be met. There are many tools that can help organizations in the development of work...
It's not easy to collaborate when your 500 employees are scattered all over France, and use different tools depending on the day's tasks. The French National Center of Forest Properties (CNPF in French) wanted to simplify exchanges and improve information circulation:...
Before deciding if Talkspirit is the right alternative to Workplace, let's remember the context. You obviously know Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg's social network is used by more than 1.7 billion users every day around the world. Born in 2004 amid dozens of other social...
You probably know Microsoft Teams. The rocket of the Microsoft 365 suite has been much talked about in recent months, especially during the period of forced remote work due to COVID. You may be wondering how to choose between Microsoft Teams and Talkspirit. Is...
"Talkspirit: the collaborative tool made in France, which has nothing to be envious of Slack." This is often how our solution is presented. So let's take this opportunity to look at the specifics of these two collaboration tools. What are the specificities of...
How can we strengthen internal cohesion and the circulation of information within the company, when more than half of the employees do not have a professional email address? After an extensive market study, Lyon Parc Auto turned to Talkspirit. Their information system...
Do you like to have your own office and documents as it pleases you? You'll appreciate using a Digital Workplace. The digital workplace: a workspace accessible anywhere, at all times... The Digital Workplace is a true digital office: a digital workspace that you...
Voir l’article Exceptional circumstances call for exceptional measures. Millions of employees - perhaps yours - have been working from home since the health measures announced by President Macron (and his foreign counterparts). With the difficulties that this implies...
For just over a week, and in some cases more, a number of us have been working from home. Every day. Without having chosen it. This is quite a change of setting, environment and sometimes rhythm (especially for those who had 1 hour of transport every morning and...
For several years now, the healthcare sector has been in crisis. Budget cuts, hospital bed shortages, understaffing, and now a second wave of COVID-19... In this tense context, Healthcare institutions are facing material but above all huge humanitarian challenges. For...
6 out of 10 large companies have an enterprise social network (also called "ESN"), and the benefits are numerous, not only for large groups. Are you looking for a new way to improve productivity in your company? Using an enterprise social network is the solution. It's...
If there's one subject that's been much talked about in recent years in terms of work methods, it's collaborative work. Yet concrete implementation often remains unclear. It's not easy to know where to start and identify and prioritize the actions needing to be...
Collaborative work is "trendy." Riding this wave, many platforms have appeared in recent years. In a short period of time, the range of tools has indeed become overwhelming—so much so that it's not always easy finding your way around and choosing the right...
According to L'Internaute, collaborative work is a way of working in which hierarchies vanish and where employees combine their creativity and skills in order to achieve a common goal. With the "culture of sharing" growing in companies, it is no coincidence that many...
A broken leg, a child stuck in bed, a medical appointment scheduled in the middle of the day … Some situations prevent us from going to the office and oblige us to work remotely. In the past few months especially, containment measures around the globe aimed at...
Everyone is well aware that - whether in their personal life or at work - good communication is a necessity. It is probably no exaggeration to say that, regardless of our environment, communication is the sinews of war. For a company, for example, it is crucial to...
In companies, there is often a dichotomy between employees at headquarters (called "white collar") and employees in the field (called "blue collar"). To avoid this divide, the enterprise social network (ESN) is an excellent tool. Explanations. Re-connect the field...
Without encrypted data, it's impossible to know whether your social network is on the right path. Adoption rates, engagement levels, and usage can vary a lot from one entity to another, so you can’t really extrapolate the data across the whole company. To manage your...
The enterprise social network (ESN) is a digital tool that isn't always easy to grasp. Its positioning as a multi-headed hydra addressing many issues (from internal communication to the knowledge base, through network animation or collaborative work) does not help us...
Let's remember the essential: feedback refers to the comments we receive that measure the perception of our actions or words by our environment. We all know that feedback given in a useful, encouraging and positive way strengthens employees, makes them more...
There is now unanimous agreement that the deployment of an ESN (enterprise social network) doesn’t just happen by itself; it must be guided. Bringing an entire organization on board with a new tool and new practices is nothing short of a revolution. But driving change...
No simple recipe exists for driving the digital transformation and installing the new work methods it requires. To lead this profound change, we must transform our communication and training. But we must first break out of the methods that are still so prevalent in...
The way communication, advertising and marketing agencies operate forces them to manage complexity: the simultaneous management of a multitude of projects, with a different team for each project, several projects per employee, the frequent involvement of external...
Governance and urbanization choices, which condition the use of collaborative tools, depend on many factors such as company size, structure (which may or may not be centralized), culture (which may or may not be inclined to encourage local initiatives), and the powers...
Organizations have not waited for the arrival of enterprise social networks (ESN) to involve their employees in innovation or knowledge sharing (= knowledge management). But social technologies have completely renewed the game, providing these same approaches with the...
Deploying an enterprise social network (ESN) is always a huge challenge: convincing the target audience of its value in a short period of time. Beforehand, obtaining the support of key executives is essential to legitimize the project. And in the ideal scenario, they...
All organizations and companies exist in an environment made up of internal and external stakeholders. On the inside, of course, there is management and teams of workers. On the outside, there are customers, suppliers, partners, government and media. No truly...
Of course, no one is waiting around for a collaborative platform to do what needs to be done. Therefore, it is the implementation of a collaborative platform or a corporate social network will undoubtedly collide with competing tools. The question regarding the use of...
Define the set of uses for your collaborative platform You have decided to launch a collaborative platform or a corporate social network in order to solve communication, circulation of information or collaboration problems… Or to guide your organization towards...
Depending on whether the groups are project groups, groups associated with a specific department or function, or thematic monitoring groups, the conditions for success will differ and depend greatly on the facilitators who will spearhead the project. A project group...
The launch of a collaborative platform in an organization will gradually lead to the creation of a large number of groups. These could include project groups, service groups, groups about professions or functions, thematic groups, etc. Quickly and naturally, your...
Practice what you preach to your colleagues with motivation. Why would they take the time and have the urge to do something you won’t do yourself? There’s an invisible marker for each user and for each organization in their transition to new forms of work. Shifting...
If you are spearheading the launch of a corporate social network within your organization with the goal of creating a collaborative workspace for everyone, we recommend that you start with a few groups (for the duration of the pilot phase) and proceed gradually with...
How to successfully launch your group according to its purpose and its audience? Below, we have listed methodological elements that you can use in order to successfully launch your groups on your collaborative platform. Read also : Top 12 best enterprise social...
Launching a collaborative platform or enterprise social network within your organization means sharing information in a new way. It’s a move away from mainly disseminating information personally – via email for example, or via intranet when done for the entire company...
Launching a collaborative platform is neither a project objective nor an end in itself. It is a means of facilitating a transition and a transformation of work patterns to adapt to an increasingly complex environment. Thus, the choice of launching a collaborative...
Because it’s a transformation project of an entire organization in its most important modes of operation: to communicate, to share the information, to manage a project and to lead a team, in short, to work together, launching a collaborative platform or a corporate...
The Talkspirit platform has a lot of tricks; there are actually quite some features that either go unnoticed or are simply interpreted the wrong way. Whether you’ve been using Talkspirit for quite a while now, or whether you have just started, check out these 5...
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