Tag: Team Management

Bridging Generational Gaps with Social Technology

CMMA E-Visions Newsletter | Summer 2012 Building connections across Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials Our Social Platform Initiative At work, we are building out an internal social application that combines some of the best features of Quora/Stack Overflow/Yahoo Answers (Q&A), Twitter/Facebook (Microblogging), and Bit.ly (link analytics). The thought process behind building the platform is to provide an online community for employees to connect, learn, and grow. The Push vs. Pull Communication Challenge The...

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Rethinking Motivation

Rethinking Motivation

Beyond Rewards and Punishments Pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table. So pay people enough to take money off the table so they aren't thinking about money, but rather the task/work at hand. Three Factors for Better Performance Join the Conversation Which of these three factors—autonomy, mastery, or purpose—motivates you the most in your work? Have you experienced the limitations of traditional reward systems?