Top 5 challenges facing HR Executives and how becoming a Smarter Workforce can help overcome them

Companies are creating value by sharing knowledge across internal barriers created by organizational structure and systems, and traditional borders between themselves and their partners and customers.

Top Tips

• 1Break down geographic, organisational and time barriers that keep employees, customers and partners from the collective intelligence of your company.

• 2Connecting and interacting with your network instantly makes the workday more effective and efficient.

• 3Don’t limit the usage of these tools to the office environment.

How You Can Achieve

• 1Even relatively small organisations can suffer from a silo mentality, where information stays in a department, or an office, and never reaches the parts of the business operation that could really use it, whether that is internal or external. Tools such as Forums, Wikis, Bookmarks and Files, all integrated and accessed through a single dashboard help to get information out to the people who really need it.
• 2Users of IBM Connections can stay up-to-date with new information by subscribing to a personalised eNewsletter that gives all new and updated contributions of specific interest and/or contributions by individuals they follow.
• 3How often does your workforce need access to information quickly whilst at a meeting with a customer, or a supplier, a manufacturing plant or just on the train? By quickly accessing a directory of experts using keywords and tags, connecting to a community or interacting with others who can answer questions or address issues, IBM Connections facilitates the learning and knowledge sharing that keeps your entire workforce connected.

Next Steps

Watch – Understand, Empower & Trust People – How to Be a Social Business

Read – The business of social business – What works and how it’s done

Watch – Knowledge Retention and the Retiring Workforce

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Did you know…

A single employee leaving can cost a company as much as 30% of that employees annual salary

Highly engaged employees are 87% less likely to leave than highly disengaged employees*

Declining levels of employee engagement in 2011 – 2012 resulted in a decline of $25,000 lower profit per employee**

Top 10 drivers of Employee Engagement;

1. Confidence in organisation’s future
2. Promising future for one’s self
3. Organisation supports work-life balance
4. Contribution is valued
5. Excited about one’s work
6. Opportunity for growth and development
7. Safety is a priority
8. Leadership has communicated a motivating vision
9. Organisation’s corporate responsibility efforts increase
   overall satisfaction
10. Quality and improvement are top priorities

(IBM Study 2014)

Top Tips

• 1Inspire your workforce to make a difference, cultivate creative leaders and improve performance.

• 2Employees who can see that their work is making a meaningful contribution to the vision and goals of the organisation are more likely to feel valued and motivated.

• 3Rapidly develop, deploy and optimise workforce skills and capabilities.

How You Can Achieve

• 1Measure employee engagement using tailored surveys
   designed to focus on the key items that will help you create a more engaged and productive workforce.

• 2Give employees public acknowledgement when a job is well done. When it’s via a social channel, it is visible to their peers, and is easy for them to share also. Every generation and every employee will appreciate the recognition.

• 3Implement A social Learning Content Management System (LCMS)
  that optimises the effectiveness and efficiency of training administrators and learners.

Top Tips

• 1Leaders are most successful when they have the capacity, capability and culture fit to succeed within your organisation.

• 2Identify internal candidates with the necessary skills, competency ratings, and performance histories who best fit your succession planning strategy.

• 3It is important to spot leadership potential through usage of social tools, and activities such as mentoring others.

How You Can Achieve

• 1Enhance effectiveness and efficiency by maximizing the performance of your human capital. Using IBM Kenexa Talent Manager you can identify talent and implement plans to meet company goals—preparing your organisation to grow and compete in the marketplace.
• 2The Succession Planning module from IBM/Kenexa Skills Manager enables you to compare candidates side-by-side, recognize skill gaps, and create appropriate development plans to build a deep talent pool.
• 3A solution which focuses on encouraging social interaction as is found in IBM Kenexa Talent Suite provides analytics which allow for measurement of activity across different metrics to be viewed. By looking at the engagement levels of employees, it is simple to spot those who are thought leaders or experts in their field, keen to assist others by answering questions etc. Doing this helps to match roles or project requirements to people, as well as emerging talent and future leaders.

Next Steps

Read – The Smarter Workforce Workshop

Read – Global C-Suite Study: New expectations for a new era: CHRO Insights

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