Jason Lauritsen is a CEO and consultant who has written about social capital and how work has changed. The document discusses how social networks and relationships are important for finding jobs, innovation, and engagement. It provides six recommendations for building social capital at work: 1) teach social skills and connection mindset, 2) use social technology to better connect people, 3) make sharing and helping easy, 4) encourage socializing at and through work, 5) break down walls between personal and business relationships, and 6) support causes to build relationships.
20. PROXIMITY
–We don’t seek out friends, we
associate with people who occupy the
same small, physical spaces we do
ACTIVITY
–We are friends with those with
whom we DO things
21. JOB RESEARCH
56% got job
through contact
Mark Granovetter, Getting a Job, 1974
46. Provide tools to make it
easy for employees to
organize around
common interests.
Editor's Notes
Human capital is additive
Social capital is multiplicative
Here to talk about Social Learning, which is about how to use the social side of your organization to fuel development and growth. This discussion usually focuses on the learning side with lots of tactics for how to apply technology to learning. The social side may be more important because without good connection, the social side will fail. If the social piece fails, your learning tactics aren’t of much use. Example: expensive TV and Digital Cable but without a quality connection, the benefit of both is lost or highly diminished. So, we need to think about how to cultivate connection within our organization.