Employee Collaboration & Social Learning

In a modern workplace characterized by globalization, geographic dispersion of talent, and short information cycles, the importance of knowledge and information can not be overstated. High performing employees develop effective professional networks and incorporate collaboration into daily routines.

Corporate social networking and workplace communities give your organization the tools to empower employees to extend existing capabilities through information sharing, professional networking, informal social learning, and ongoing collaboration. In complex, dispersed organizations, this is hugely important – getting your employees collaborating effectively to improve performance and alignment.

Communities for the Employee Life Cycle

Cornerstone Connect is a complete suite of social networking and workplace community-building tools to allow for effective collaboration, networking, communication, and teamwork across the organization (and your alumni).

How does this impact your employees?

Workforce communities and social networking span the entire employee life cycle:

Onboarding: Connect new hires to the people they need to know to succeed and cut time-to-proficiency.

Performance support: It’s not just what you know, buy who you know. High-performing employees take it to the next level by developing professional networks that drive performance.

Informal learning:80% of training budgets is spent on formal learning, but equally 80% of what people actually learn in a job is informal and collaborative. Evolve your LMS strategy to include collaborative learning.

Workforce management: Identify key nodes in your organisation by analyzing your social networks. Better visibility into your informal networks enables bottom-up, socially-driven succession planning (more powerful than typical C-level).

Internal Recruiting: Rich user profiles and active communities of practice make internal recruiting work. Cut back on costly external recruitment practices and find new sources of talent in house.

Alumni and retiree engagement networks: For business development, maintaining a priceless “corporate memory,” and even for recruiting, building an organizational alumni community is a quick way to demonstrate the value of business social networking.

Why Cornerstone Connect?

80% of the training budget is spent on formal learning, but equally 80% of what people actually learn in a job is informal and collaborative.

Subject-matter expertise only takes you so far in a job. High-performing employees break through by developing professional networks that extend their existing capabilities.

Employee Community Challenges