Posts in "Content"

The ‘WWW Workplace’ is about wow (enabling technology), wonder (imagination / possibilities), and who (skills, knowledge and support). These are reflections on the inspirations for the phrase jumping into my mind.

As with many of my blog posts, this is another one joining dots from things I have been hearing or reading. This one is a reflection on how knowledge spreads and how transformation can happen – and the continuing effects of  Taylorism continue to get in the way.

This post is an invitation to join me in an innovative pilot online learning programme, the Smart Work Company we-learn experience, with the possibility to have your learning accredited in a Post Graduate Certificate from Chester University in the UK.

As you may know if you have been reading this blog (for which a million thanks), I think current workplace trends need to be seen as part of a trajectory, the origins of which go back a long, long way.

This post makes the link between past and present, with the focus very much on the present and differences between then and now.

This post marks a change in direction for the blog. Up until now I have been focusing on content around smart working and social business.

So what, though? What does it all mean in practice? What would you do with all this content, frameworks, tools and methods?

Well, I am late to the MOOC party. Or rather late to the acronym. What it implies, Massive Open Online Courses, is exactly the direction I have been planning for the Smart Work Company: an online business school.

I have a problem with the 'course' bit of MOOC. I propose an alternative: Massive Open Online Experiment.

This is the second part of a reflection on two enduring management obsessions: control and engagement.

At the same time as trying to control and micro-manage people’s behaviour, another dominant focus over the decades has been on trying to get people to do stuff - apparently without appreciating that one influences the other.

Topics include:

Engagement

Systems of leadership

High-performance work systems

This post is the first in a two-part reflection on two enduring management obsessions: control and employee engagement. Themes include:

• Legacy of insight
• What people need
• Control
• Behaviour control
• Output control
• Autonomy and control
• Distributed
• Control not a zero-sum game

This post is a quick summary of a work-based approach to executive development.

This next post in the Campus Workplace / Learning Workplace series shifts from the physical environment to learning environments as systems of people and place. The post has become too long so the role of technology is considered in the next one.

The Smart Work Framework summarises four profiles of learning workplaces according to structure, global reach, knowledge type, workstyle and social complexity. These broad categories are described and offered as work-in-progress.