The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Forming bonds. “In our Virtual Experience survey, employee onboarding was cited as the single factor most negatively impacted by virtual work,” they write. Research from Harvard Business School offers us hope that bonds can indeed be forged virtually if managers go about things in the right way. Virtual watercooler.

Bond 114

Bond How To Open-book Survey 114

Women on Business

JUNE 13, 2012

We seek out diversity and strong points of view on our teams, but combine these characteristics with remote locations, tight timelines and resource constraints, and a day at the office can turn into a political and technological obstacle course. Investing in the upfront connections matters and can help your team reap significant benefits.

Team 226

Team Management Welch Succession 226

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Provide ongoing virtual training in resiliency skills, mindfulness, communication and technology (if the latter is needed). When we laugh together, we bond. Ask each team member how they are doing with this. Laughter is the shortest distance between people. We create a community.

Leadership 324

Leadership Globalization Micromanagement Constraint 324

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

In a recent Unify survey of knowledge workers, 79% of respondents reported working always or frequently in virtual teams, but only 44% found virtual communication as productive as face-to-face communication. And 43% feel confused and overwhelmed by the mishmash of collaboration technology at their disposal. Getting Alignment.

Team 11

Team Conference Forrester Bond 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In these settings, relationships are often mediated by technology, and it can be tough to build trust. We asked our survey respondents to describe a manager who is especially good at managing remote teams. Demonstrate familiarity and comfort with technology. Now, teams are spread out across different sites and geographies.

Technology 8

Technology Micromanagement Team Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

The term “frictionless commerce” is widely used to describe how digital technologies are blending product purchases seamlessly into consumers’ daily lives. Frictionless commerce will test the emotional bonds that make consumers loyal to established brands. Image Source/Getty Images.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Mass Marketing Retail Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Every process that is created, every system installed, every technology that is used, every structure that is designed, every job title that is given will reinforce or dilute the culture. If the original intent of an off-site retreat was to help teams bond, what needs to shift now that the company has tripled in size? Developing.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

However, in our survey of 1,060 global executives , only 30% of executives work for companies that benefited from the internal use of social media. The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools.

Media 16

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2012

Yet when we connect with people online, we don't tend to get the oxytocin or serotonin calming reward that happens when we bond with someone in real time, when our circuits resonate with real-time shared emotions and experiences. The circuitry activated when you connect online is the seeking circuitry of dopamine.

Media 19

Media Bond Learning-by-Doing Conference 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Incentives or other extrinsic rewards—individual bonus schemes, promises of nice offices and titles, and other tangible benefits— create transactional relationships , not deep bonds to an employer. Becton Dickinson , a global medical technology company, has made its purpose helping all people live healthier lives.

Company 8

Company Teamwork Commitment Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. More recently, it has come in the form of the swarms of “apps” sold to individual departments to solve scheduling and care-coordination problems and to “bond” with “consumers.” PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Social-media technologies offer plenty of ways for your company to gain valuable insights about your customers and industry — see our previous blog post. But social technologies open new channels that permit snooping on an unprecedented scale. Leaks are nothing new; companies have been eavesdropping on each other forever.

Company 8

Company Media Travel Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

billion, is one more in a line of twenty-somethings and even pre-twenty-somethings whose technology innovations have made them a fortune. In a survey of young people interested in media and communications in Europe issued by Publicis Groupe, the results indicate that an expectation of "social responsibility" is now a given.

Incubator 9

Incubator Entrepreneur Business Incubator Mentor 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. My informal survey of a dozen people I know under the age of 35, working in a range of desk jobs, all in the U.S. There's a new lonely crowd in the workplace.

Silverman 16

Silverman Real Estate Fashion Open-book 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. “I surveyed them. Helena had dreamed of starting a nonprofit that would seek out, mentor, and support high-potential entrepreneurs in Latin America.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Consumers today are trying and bonding with brands through design touch points and their experiences, not through advertising alone. Technology has also changed the picture for many brands in terms of building trust. Another major shift is a fairly profound convergence of brand and design.

Brand 15

Brand Hotels Reputation Franchising 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

So-called “daddy days” offer precious time to bond with a new baby, cement new household routines, and lay the foundation of a family’s life. Fathers can spend meaningful time parenting their children over the long haul of nearly two decades, not just a few days or weeks bonding with them as infants.

Bond 8

Bond Long-term Health Care Organizational Behavior 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Some Indian companies, recognizing the importance of family, are doing the same: welcoming parents to new employee orientation (a few have even taken it a step further and offer benefits to dependent parents , strengthening the employee bond). Why not invite parents to your employee orientation or onboarding program?

Mentor 11

Mentor Performance Review Conference Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. At that point if you took a survey of what the outlook was, you’d get an overwhelming positive response the day before it falls on its face. They are not. Bubbles and forecasting.

Long-term 11

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11