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Meet the new SkillsMapper

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8 February 2011joe

We know at Zapoint that employee engagement is critical for any system to gain widespread adoption within an organization, so it’s important to have a simple user experience that makes sense. Too many systems are built solely for the HR department, without their creators realizing that engaging the users themselves is the most critical part [...]

Collaboration seeds innovation

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9 November 2010joe

Many organizations can overlook employees’ knowledge and experience, because it resides where they least expect to find it. When teams are assembled or feedback solicited, many valuable employees don’t even get a look in, as their knowledge-sharing is limited to their own team and department.

Increasing employee collaboration through social networking

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18 October 2010joe

An interesting article from the BBC about organizations using social networking tools to increase employee collaboration and monitor individuals’ knowledge sharing – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11550246 A recent report commissioned by Google brings up some interesting statistics: Employees who are given the opportunity to collaborate are twice as likely to contribute new ideas Only 15% of employees are [...]

Why HR shouldn’t fear transparency

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31 March 2010joe

Talent Management applications are often closed and secretive systems for HR and business managers to log and track employees’ experience and performance, without the employees ever seeing what’s entered. Keeping them up to date is a manual and tedious process, and often the information is entered by an HR gatekeeper who’s several steps removed from the actual employee. But the gatekeeper’s in control, fiercely guarding the data, to ensure that no prying eyes ever get to see the jewels of information that lie within.