Without Change, There Would Be No Butterflies: 4 Steps to Business Transformation Consumers expect a new relationship with businesses, which means internal teams need a new way to work – one enabling them to access information quickly and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. Business transformation is at the heart of every business especially inside everyday processes and driving innovation with purchased productivity tools. The good news is many companies are turning to Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365. The bad news is adoption is sorely lacking. The culprit? Change management. Recent studies find more than half of companies point to poor change management as the top reason for their SharePoint deployments failing. Join Heather Newman, Co-Founder, Chief Evangelist and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a successful change management project. You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of the pitfalls to avoid and proven tips to jumpstart business transformation and how to implement with your change management initiatives.
Without Change, There Would Be No Butterflies: Creating an End User Adoption ...Heather Newman
Consumers expect a new relationship with businesses, which means a new way to work - quickly and easily. Business transformation and metamorphosis is at the heart of every business.
Join Heather Newman, Co-Founder, Chief Evangelist and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she shows the 10 steps in creating an end-user adoption campaign using Microsoft Teams and Planner.
Digital Workplace Conference NZ - Microsoft Teams and Planner Heather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know. Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go. You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint. Shazam!
Want #Office365 Consumption? Do these 5 things : #CollabSummitTracy Van der Schyff
Consumption of Cloud Technologies / #Microsoft #Office365 is something everyone ‘craves’. After all, it's the physical measurement of adoption. In this session Tracy will cover the following:
· Common pitfalls
· Prerequisites for success
· Steps to take to ensure adoption > consumption
You will leave this session with insights into the mistakes we've made in the past and a clear vision for the road ahead.
14 March 2019
Better, Faster, Stronger: Improving Collaboration Between Dev and IT by 2xAtlassian
Millions of people book trips using Skyscanner's global search engine. Keeping the service is up and running 24/7 is crucial. Collaboration between software and IT teams ensures that this is the case: it’s all about finding and fixing bugs fast. In this session, learn how the Skyscanner squad structure works, and how they improved collaboration between development and IT teams by 2x while improving IT productivity by 44%. Buckle up: you're about to take off.
Without Change, There Would Be No Butterflies: Creating an End User Adoption ...Heather Newman
Consumers expect a new relationship with businesses, which means a new way to work - quickly and easily. Business transformation and metamorphosis is at the heart of every business.
Join Heather Newman, Co-Founder, Chief Evangelist and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she shows the 10 steps in creating an end-user adoption campaign using Microsoft Teams and Planner.
Digital Workplace Conference NZ - Microsoft Teams and Planner Heather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know. Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go. You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint. Shazam!
Want #Office365 Consumption? Do these 5 things : #CollabSummitTracy Van der Schyff
Consumption of Cloud Technologies / #Microsoft #Office365 is something everyone ‘craves’. After all, it's the physical measurement of adoption. In this session Tracy will cover the following:
· Common pitfalls
· Prerequisites for success
· Steps to take to ensure adoption > consumption
You will leave this session with insights into the mistakes we've made in the past and a clear vision for the road ahead.
14 March 2019
Better, Faster, Stronger: Improving Collaboration Between Dev and IT by 2xAtlassian
Millions of people book trips using Skyscanner's global search engine. Keeping the service is up and running 24/7 is crucial. Collaboration between software and IT teams ensures that this is the case: it’s all about finding and fixing bugs fast. In this session, learn how the Skyscanner squad structure works, and how they improved collaboration between development and IT teams by 2x while improving IT productivity by 44%. Buckle up: you're about to take off.
RUFing it out with Customer Feedback: Knowing the “Why”Atlassian
On one hand, Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are great for gauging how customers feel – but they don’t provide any specific insights. On the other hand, unstructured comments from support tickets and similar sources are rich with detail – but with 15,000 comments per week coming in, it was impossible to categorize and understand what that information actually meant. We needed a better way. Join the head of our Voice of the Customer team, Sean Cramer, to learn about the innovative system Atlassian has built: RUF (Reliability, Usability, Functionality). RUF categorizes, measures, and prioritizes issues gleaned from not just Net Promoter feedback, but from all our sources of customer feedback. Come learn how your organization can take Atlassian’s learnings, and use them to build a similar system for your organization.
The Road to Awesome SharePoint Adoption in Your Organization - SPS Chicago Su...Heather Newman
No matter what version of SharePoint an organization has or how long it has been implemented there is a steep learning curve for many users. That learning curve often brings trepidation and paralysis to people who are simply working to complete everyday tasks. Training is forgotten shortly after it happens. Asking for help from the IT department or even another co-worker can be intimidating. Are you tasked with driving adoption? Proving IT spend ROI? Reducing time and energy around internal support calls and emails? Having the right tools and content at one’s fingertips empowers your teams, excites them and sets them on the road to feeling awesome about themselves, Who doesn’t want more of that?
Confluence Insiders Webinar: Four ways every team can collaborate in ConfluenceAtlassian
In 30 minutes we’ll focus on four ways you and your team can start using Confluence more effectively based on best practices developed here at Atlassian.
We’ll show you how you and your coworkers can use Confluence to centralize all of your team’s important information. Specifically, we’ll focus on how you can:
1.Run effective meetings
2. Store and share files
3. Make decisions without meetings, and
4. Share web links to spark new ideas
You’ve got the solution, now let us show you the path to effective collaboration that results in work getting done.
7 things about intranets I learnt the hard waySam Marshall
Being an intranet manager can be demanding, and there isn't always someone else to learn from in your organisation. Based on 15 years as an intranet manager / consultant, I share some experiences of where things can go wrong, and how to avoid them:
* Disappearing Stakeholders
* Change comes from leadership not data
* Too much personalization
* When your intranet should look like your org chart
* Forgetting the late-adopters
* Over-zealous Governance
* trying to change everything at once
Setting up a service desk is a lot of work. But often, getting your employees to use it is even harder. In this presentation, Caroline and Sarah share tangible and creative ways to market your service desk that have been effectively deployed to achieve utilisation rates of more than 90%. By making the service desk a part of the onboarding process and using creative marketing, find out how to ensure employees are not only using, but loving your service desk.
Although this is customized for service desks, this can be applied to any software tool launch.
It’s 2015, and the customer experience is increasingly being driven by techniques like A/B testing and optimization.
Optimizely recently surveyed digital experience owners to learn just how they think about and allocate resources towards their testing and optimization programs.
These slides answer the questions:
- How often do teams optimizing run A/B and multivariate tests?
- What are the top benefits that optimization programs are seeing?
- How do optimization teams manage their experiment process?
Fast then Faster - a Retrospective on RetrospectivesAtlassian
So, you’re agile. You’ve got a healthy backlog, you understand your team’s velocity, and you’re holding retrospectives. You’re in a good place – right? Maybe not. You may have a handle on the quality of your stories & their output, but what about that of your team and those around you? Or your agile processes themselves?
Retrospectives are a great way to get feedback, but they are often both undervalued and underutilized as a tool for improvement. Agile gets you fast, but retrospectives get you faster.
We’ll walk you through what good and bad retrospectives look like, how to tell when they’re failing, and (more importantly) how to uncover what's lurking behind bias, ego, and protocol.
If you’re in doubt if this session is for you, suggest a team under pressure skips the retrospective this week, and see just how quickly they drop the most important part of the agile cycle!
Products covered:
JIRA Software, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Fisheye / Crucible
A look at common pitfalls in intranet design and operation, for both traditional and social-media driven approaches. Getting it right is rarely just about installing the right tool, and this talk will address issues such as moderating employee discussion boards, the role of corporate communications, runaway SharePoint sites and Generation Y
https://www.wrike.com/blog - We surveyed creative teams to discover their biggest challenges and bottlenecks, from conception to completion. And what we discovered was: creative teams have to organize requests, listen to feedback, and seek approvals, all while trying to incorporate their own creative vision, making it difficult to prioritize and meet deadlines. Check out the details in our Slideshare.
A 3.5 hour workshop introducing Presumptive Design, situating it within design thinking and research methods, and providing hands-on exercises to internalize the technique
Good, Better, Best Strategies for Social Adoption in SharePointChristian Buckley
The world is witnessing the dawn of the social organization, with rapidly evolving solutions that impact team dynamics, collaboration, and real-time communication. For many managers, it can difficult keeping up with all of the features and roadmaps. New options within SharePoint, Office365 and Yammer are exciting, but many teams struggle to develop a social strategy that aligns with their business needs.
This session will walk through the levels of SharePoint and Yammer integration available today as well as other features, such as Delve and Office Graph, providing some real-world examples and guidance to help attendees make more informed choices and develop the right social strategy for their organizations.
Content Targeting and Personalization: Improving Engagement at the Account LevelG3 Communications
"With buyer engagements shifting online, B2B marketers need to deliver digital experiences that resonate with TARGET businesses, differentiate themselves from their competitors, and accelerate the sales cycle. Web analytics, targeting tools and content systems are now adapting to this new B2B buyer, as companies are learning how to engage and connect content to target audiences in order to nurture and accelerate leads to sales. Hear how Adobe has embarked on a journey to connect data from analytics, testing tools and visitor identification technologies to understand their targets, personalize their web experiences and better serve content to the accounts that are not only most likely to convert, but also most likely to buy.
Top tactics for identifying, engaging and converting visitors from your most important web segments Identify the top conversion metrics to pay attention to and optimize against Learn how to engage visitors—and keep them engaged—utilizing personalization technology"
The Biggest Growth Opportunity is Right Under Your NoseSean Ellis
These slides were used for a webinar about driving growth by improving the conversion performance of your website. The slides focus on identifying why someone visits your website and uncovering the key issues that prevent conversions. The webinar was presented by Qualaroo CEO Sean Ellis and UserTesting CEO Darrell Benatar about
The Double Check - Leveraging Microsoft Best Practices for Information Govern...Heather Newman
“Rogue IT” decisions within your team or organization can diminish your Office 365 governance and processes. Heather takes you through research on why “Rogue IT” happens and shares resources for planning and executing an end user adoption and governance strategy that will transform how your team uses Office 365.
RUFing it out with Customer Feedback: Knowing the “Why”Atlassian
On one hand, Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are great for gauging how customers feel – but they don’t provide any specific insights. On the other hand, unstructured comments from support tickets and similar sources are rich with detail – but with 15,000 comments per week coming in, it was impossible to categorize and understand what that information actually meant. We needed a better way. Join the head of our Voice of the Customer team, Sean Cramer, to learn about the innovative system Atlassian has built: RUF (Reliability, Usability, Functionality). RUF categorizes, measures, and prioritizes issues gleaned from not just Net Promoter feedback, but from all our sources of customer feedback. Come learn how your organization can take Atlassian’s learnings, and use them to build a similar system for your organization.
The Road to Awesome SharePoint Adoption in Your Organization - SPS Chicago Su...Heather Newman
No matter what version of SharePoint an organization has or how long it has been implemented there is a steep learning curve for many users. That learning curve often brings trepidation and paralysis to people who are simply working to complete everyday tasks. Training is forgotten shortly after it happens. Asking for help from the IT department or even another co-worker can be intimidating. Are you tasked with driving adoption? Proving IT spend ROI? Reducing time and energy around internal support calls and emails? Having the right tools and content at one’s fingertips empowers your teams, excites them and sets them on the road to feeling awesome about themselves, Who doesn’t want more of that?
Confluence Insiders Webinar: Four ways every team can collaborate in ConfluenceAtlassian
In 30 minutes we’ll focus on four ways you and your team can start using Confluence more effectively based on best practices developed here at Atlassian.
We’ll show you how you and your coworkers can use Confluence to centralize all of your team’s important information. Specifically, we’ll focus on how you can:
1.Run effective meetings
2. Store and share files
3. Make decisions without meetings, and
4. Share web links to spark new ideas
You’ve got the solution, now let us show you the path to effective collaboration that results in work getting done.
7 things about intranets I learnt the hard waySam Marshall
Being an intranet manager can be demanding, and there isn't always someone else to learn from in your organisation. Based on 15 years as an intranet manager / consultant, I share some experiences of where things can go wrong, and how to avoid them:
* Disappearing Stakeholders
* Change comes from leadership not data
* Too much personalization
* When your intranet should look like your org chart
* Forgetting the late-adopters
* Over-zealous Governance
* trying to change everything at once
Setting up a service desk is a lot of work. But often, getting your employees to use it is even harder. In this presentation, Caroline and Sarah share tangible and creative ways to market your service desk that have been effectively deployed to achieve utilisation rates of more than 90%. By making the service desk a part of the onboarding process and using creative marketing, find out how to ensure employees are not only using, but loving your service desk.
Although this is customized for service desks, this can be applied to any software tool launch.
It’s 2015, and the customer experience is increasingly being driven by techniques like A/B testing and optimization.
Optimizely recently surveyed digital experience owners to learn just how they think about and allocate resources towards their testing and optimization programs.
These slides answer the questions:
- How often do teams optimizing run A/B and multivariate tests?
- What are the top benefits that optimization programs are seeing?
- How do optimization teams manage their experiment process?
Fast then Faster - a Retrospective on RetrospectivesAtlassian
So, you’re agile. You’ve got a healthy backlog, you understand your team’s velocity, and you’re holding retrospectives. You’re in a good place – right? Maybe not. You may have a handle on the quality of your stories & their output, but what about that of your team and those around you? Or your agile processes themselves?
Retrospectives are a great way to get feedback, but they are often both undervalued and underutilized as a tool for improvement. Agile gets you fast, but retrospectives get you faster.
We’ll walk you through what good and bad retrospectives look like, how to tell when they’re failing, and (more importantly) how to uncover what's lurking behind bias, ego, and protocol.
If you’re in doubt if this session is for you, suggest a team under pressure skips the retrospective this week, and see just how quickly they drop the most important part of the agile cycle!
Products covered:
JIRA Software, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Fisheye / Crucible
A look at common pitfalls in intranet design and operation, for both traditional and social-media driven approaches. Getting it right is rarely just about installing the right tool, and this talk will address issues such as moderating employee discussion boards, the role of corporate communications, runaway SharePoint sites and Generation Y
https://www.wrike.com/blog - We surveyed creative teams to discover their biggest challenges and bottlenecks, from conception to completion. And what we discovered was: creative teams have to organize requests, listen to feedback, and seek approvals, all while trying to incorporate their own creative vision, making it difficult to prioritize and meet deadlines. Check out the details in our Slideshare.
A 3.5 hour workshop introducing Presumptive Design, situating it within design thinking and research methods, and providing hands-on exercises to internalize the technique
Good, Better, Best Strategies for Social Adoption in SharePointChristian Buckley
The world is witnessing the dawn of the social organization, with rapidly evolving solutions that impact team dynamics, collaboration, and real-time communication. For many managers, it can difficult keeping up with all of the features and roadmaps. New options within SharePoint, Office365 and Yammer are exciting, but many teams struggle to develop a social strategy that aligns with their business needs.
This session will walk through the levels of SharePoint and Yammer integration available today as well as other features, such as Delve and Office Graph, providing some real-world examples and guidance to help attendees make more informed choices and develop the right social strategy for their organizations.
Content Targeting and Personalization: Improving Engagement at the Account LevelG3 Communications
"With buyer engagements shifting online, B2B marketers need to deliver digital experiences that resonate with TARGET businesses, differentiate themselves from their competitors, and accelerate the sales cycle. Web analytics, targeting tools and content systems are now adapting to this new B2B buyer, as companies are learning how to engage and connect content to target audiences in order to nurture and accelerate leads to sales. Hear how Adobe has embarked on a journey to connect data from analytics, testing tools and visitor identification technologies to understand their targets, personalize their web experiences and better serve content to the accounts that are not only most likely to convert, but also most likely to buy.
Top tactics for identifying, engaging and converting visitors from your most important web segments Identify the top conversion metrics to pay attention to and optimize against Learn how to engage visitors—and keep them engaged—utilizing personalization technology"
The Biggest Growth Opportunity is Right Under Your NoseSean Ellis
These slides were used for a webinar about driving growth by improving the conversion performance of your website. The slides focus on identifying why someone visits your website and uncovering the key issues that prevent conversions. The webinar was presented by Qualaroo CEO Sean Ellis and UserTesting CEO Darrell Benatar about
Similar to SharePoint Saturday London Without Change, There - Would Be No Butterflies: 4 Steps to Business Transformation with Microsoft Teams and Planner
The Double Check - Leveraging Microsoft Best Practices for Information Govern...Heather Newman
“Rogue IT” decisions within your team or organization can diminish your Office 365 governance and processes. Heather takes you through research on why “Rogue IT” happens and shares resources for planning and executing an end user adoption and governance strategy that will transform how your team uses Office 365.
The road to awesome share point adoption in your organization sps nashville...Heather Newman
SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley presentation on End User Adoption for Office 365 and SharePoint. Reviewing adoption checklists and best practices. Short demo of in-context help app Content Panda for Office 365 and SharePoint 2013. Learn about how to implement SharePoint or Office 365 inside your teams the most effective way. This deck is full of resources, links and hints on empowering end users and helping IT Admins put together the best plan possible for rolling out SharePoint in an organization.
Tackling Employee Experience Today As We Embrace The Future WorkplaceRichard Harbridge
Tackling Employee Experience Today As We Embrace The Future Workplace
The future workplace needs to take into account how the employee experience landscape is changing and the importance of digital experiences throughout the employee journey. The employee experience journey starts before the employee is hired and lasts after they depart. Focusing on the employee experience can feel like a daunting task when reviewing the many different stages of an employee’s journey, but we know understanding and improving these stages can lead to a much more positive employee experience, and maximize the retention, impact, engagement, and performance of the employee.
Starter Kit for Collaboration from Karuana @ Microsoft ITKaruana Gatimu
How does Microsoft IT approach the collaboration space? This Real World IT presentation is shared with customers worldwide to accelerate their ability to achieve more from their investments.
Also includes links to success.office.com templates in context of how to use them to kick start better adoption of what is available in your enterprise.
(Feb 2015)
Microsoft Teams and Planner Global Azure BootcampHeather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know. Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go. You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint. Shazam!
Jacksonvillle, FL Dreamforce Global Gathering DeckMarc Lester
This is the presentation used during the Jacksonville, FL Dreamforce Global Gathering session. it provides the highlights from Salesforce's ultimate conference "Dreamforce".
Microsoft Teams 7 Key Concepts for Planning and Strategy for SuccessJoel Oleson
Microsoft Teams: The 7 Key Concepts for Strategy & Planning for Success
Tuesday, October 8th at 11 AM Eastern
Register Here
Started using teams and wondering how to get your executive sponsor on board? Looking to define a vision for the future of Microsoft Teams in your organization.
Maybe you’re a team leader and looking for ways to leverage the platform for engagement or realizing the vision of Modern Teamwork.
In this session, you will get a powerful collection of best practices for using and extending the Microsoft Teams platform to help your teams succeed in today’s workplace.
7 Key Concepts for Strategy and Planning for Success
Clear Vision
Executive Leadership Sponsorship and Engagement
Governance Plan: Managed provisioning & Lifecycle offboarding, Security & Compliance DLP
Communication Plan: Departmental engagement
Success Critieria & Metrics Regular reporting / Department Gamification
Train the Trainer & Champion program
Adoption Change Management Program
Learning's Big Data Problem: Measuring & Analyzing ImpactWatershed
The wave of information known as Big Data has been growing exponentially in recent years. That's why it's critical for organizations to not only get better at collecting more meaningful data, but also understanding just what it all means.
Join us for a webinar next week, when we'll we review the results of Brandon Hall Group’s 2016 Learning Measurement Study and 2016 Learning Analytics Study, identify what organizations are measuring (and what they aren’t), and how they're making use of that data.
Presenters:
David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst with Brandon Hall Group
Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer & Principal HCM Analyst with Brandon Hall Group
Mike Rustici, CEO & Founder of Watershed
During this webinar, you'll learn more about:
-The metrics organizations are using
-The outcomes organizations are measuring
-How data is being analyzed
-Data analysis as a skill set
-How High Performers approach measurement & analytics
SPS NYC - End User Adoption - Microsoft Teams and Planner - Without Change Th...Heather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know. Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go. You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint. Shazam!
Tackling Governance, Site & Teams Sprawl With Microsoft 365Richard Harbridge
Without an effective governance strategy in place, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Sites can quickly go from an organized and effective workspace to an out-of-control, sprawling digital wasteland. Sound familiar?
It's very common for organizations to experience Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl. But, when it does happen, how can you tackle it?
Join Microsoft MVP & 2toLead CTO, Richard Harbridge, as he explores:
* Challenges organizations face with Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl.
* Solutions to tackle Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl.
* Best practices to get more from Microsoft Teams & SharePoint.
* Real-world guidance on out-of-the-box solutions and custom approaches.
* How Orchestry can improve experiences, management and organizational outcomes.
Proven Strategies for increasing Adoption and EngagementChristian Buckley
While Office 365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption can be slow and difficult without a strategy in place. This presentation covers a number of different topics that all have an impact on end user adoption and engagement. This presentation shares: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
Customer Centricity and Product Led Growth by Airbnb Product & Growth Product School
Product Management Event at #ProductCon San Francisco about Customer Centricity and Product Led Growth by Product & Growth Manager at Airbnb, Pratik Shah.
SPC100: Beyond Deployment, How Can IT Inspire, Motivate and Drive Sustainable...Cyrielle Simeone
Today IT departments have an unprecedented opportunity to work with the business to change how people work and provide solutions that help get things done more efficiently, from anywhere and with anyone. As IT, how do you proceed to define these scenarios and ensure people can take full advantage of them? In this session, we will discuss the common use cases and best practices coming from successful customers, experienced partners, and focus groups that led to sustainable user adoption.
Specifically, we’ll discuss: 1. the top use cases that need to be solved and Office 365 and SharePoint 2013’s capability to address these specific challenges, 2. the best practices and 3. the role enterprise social can play in successful adoption. Drive adoption within your own organization the way you desire - not by chance.
Masterclass On Improving & Measuring Onboarding, Retention & Well-beingRichard Harbridge
85% of leaders say the shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are productive. 92% of employees have identified enhancing the employee experience as an essential priority.New challenges are always presented to HR from all sides, and we’re here to help you target critical areas of the employee experience at our free event.Whether you’re looking for strategic guidance or help to achieve technical excellence, our event is full of sessions from world-renowned thought leaders.On February 10th, from 10 AM to 4 PM, learn to avoid new and old challenges, build on existing success, and leverage the latest technology to facilitate your efforts. One lucky winner will walk away with a free $15,000 POC!2toLead CTO and 7X Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge and 2toLead CEO and 13X Microsoft MVP Kanwal Khipple will lead the event.Together, they helped over 200 digital workplaces globally, plan for and increase the employee experience, keynoted conferences, published books, and published blogs for some major publications like Forbes.Join specialized sessions (business or deep dive tech breakouts) designed for HR leaders or the technical team that supports the digital employee experience.The business and general sessions aim to provide insight into the apparent and hidden value of tackling onboarding, retention, and well-being.The optional tech deep dive breakout sessions aims to walk through how to use and implement Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva to improve onboarding, retention, and well-being.Walk away from the event with a greater understanding of the following:- How to identify the most critical areas of the employee experience- How to improve the onboarding experience before and during the process- Building experiences to enable better onboarding- Measure for success- Creating digital employee experiences that help retain top talent- How to track employee well-being- And much more
Similar to SharePoint Saturday London Without Change, There - Would Be No Butterflies: 4 Steps to Business Transformation with Microsoft Teams and Planner (20)
Flip the Script Friday - Working From HomeHeather Newman
Flip the Script Friday - Working from Home session - learning about all the different ways folks are connecting along with all of you. Talking Microsoft Teams, Zoom and WFH tips from me and Microsoft
Facebook never needed adoption, why does Office 365? - Sasja Beerendonk and H...Heather Newman
Resistance to change is what you'll get without a proper change strategy for your collaboration platform. Unlike IT people, business users are not necessarily thrilled about new technology, features and functionalities.
Build it and they will not work. Most employees will need to be motivated differently to start a new way of working.
What are the reasons employees do not simply embrace new technology? And most importantly: how can we bend resistance to change to change readiness? How do we find your Champions and activate them? How do people understand when to use what app? Learn what makes change for technology so difficult and how to motivate your employees.
From the European SharePoint, Office 365, and Azure Conference - Karuana and Heather will discuss the benefits of both being and having a mentor. Having an outside eye to your career from both perspectives is crucial to your growth. Anyone who’s ever participated in mentoring will tell you that, “We learn when we teach and we teach when we learn.” We’ll look at how to choose a mentor and how to sign up to get one via the Community Mentors Tribute App that is a part of the Microsoft Tech Community.
From the European SharePoint, Office 365, and Azure Conference - Karuana and Heather will discuss networking skills for both introverts and extroverts. Explore ways to be comfortable in those first-time meetings and deepen your existing professional relationships. Networking is about listening as much as it is about talking. We’ll look at how to create your “why” elevator pitch and a list of tactics to take with you for all your networking moments.
From the European SharePoint, Office 365, and Azure Conference - Karuana and Heather will discuss how showing respect, empathy, and kindness to those you work with builds trust across your team. We will discuss tactics for establishing your base of knowledge in your field, tools for authentic communication and how to leading with compassion all of which are tools for becoming a great leader.
The Maven Principle: Mastering Power Skills for Personal DevelopmentHeather Newman
Join founder and CEO of Creative Maven, Heather Newman as she takes you through the power skills that are essential to each of us becoming stronger employees and better humans.
We hear the term “soft skills” as the definition of personal attributes that enable us to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people.
However, there is nothing soft about mastering these skills; there is “strength” in the practice of developing these “Power” skills that are more intangible but critical to your working and interacting with the people around you effectively.
The best investment you can make is in yourself and practicing power skills helps you produce the results you want at work, at home, and in the world, building that expertise in the most critical person in your life, you.
DWCAU - Become the Expert of You - Power Skills for Personal DevelopmentHeather Newman
We hear the term “soft skills” as the definition of personal attributes that enable us to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people.
Top soft skills employers look for are:
leadership
teamwork
communication
creativity
work ethic
problem-solving
self-confidence and include your personal brand
presentation/meeting techniques and pitching
However, there is nothing soft about mastering these skills; there is “strength” in the practice of developing these “Power” skills that are more intangible but critical to your working and interacting with the people around you effectively.
Join Microsoft MVP, personal development leader and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, Heather Newman as she takes you five skills that are essential to each of us becoming stronger employees but also better humans. We will discuss leadership, communication, presentation skills, public persona (LinkedIn & social media), and self-confidence.
The best investment you can make is in yourself and practicing power skills helps you produce the results you want at work, at home, and in the world, building that expertise in the most critical person in your life, you.
Digital Workplace Conference Australia - How to Kick Fear and Toxicity Out of...Heather Newman
Fear and toxicity are words that have no place in meetings, our workplace or our lives. We live over half of our lives at work, and we all want to be productive, successful and happy while we are there. Everyone wants to be appreciated and respected for the contributions we make to our jobs, careers, and organizations.
Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP, and CMO of Content Panda as she talks through the whys of fear-based and toxic workplace behavior and how to combat this negativity with practical examples and guidance.
The session will dive into the topics of the lizard brain, impostor syndrome, doubt language, and the CYA email combined with action steps for each one to take back to your teams and organizations. Creating a healthy work environment is up to each one of us and leads to better collaboration and enhanced creativity that empowers everyone to be their best selves and to produce our best work. If you are attending with your co-workers, this is a pivotal session to attend as a group.
What Burning Man Taught Me About Belonging - SPC 2019 Diversity & InclusionHeather Newman
Belonging is when others take the time to know you, take care of you and include you for all the things you are. This word also means when you feel welcome, included and a part of the team. We spend over half our lives in our workplaces. Feeling like you belong in your company is a large part of getting up out of bed and knowing the contributions you make will be heard and respected. Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and CMO of Content Panda to hear how Burning Man and the SharePoint Community taught her about belonging and steps you can take in your role to be a leader in helping others feel like they belong. Building community starts with how we treat each other.
Digital Workplace Conference NZ - Fear and Toxicity in the WorkplaceHeather Newman
Fear and toxicity are words that have no place in meetings, the workplace or our lives. Everyone wants to be appreciated and respected for the contributions made to our jobs, careers, and organizations. Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP, Content Panda as she talks through the whys of bad workplace behavior and how to kick them out with practical examples and guidance. Attendees will learn how to identify the qualities of a fear-based workplace and how to move to a trust-based workplace. The session will dive into the lizard brain, impostor syndrome and the art of re-framing with tips and tricks to take back to your organization. Diversity, inclusion, intersectionality, and belonging starts with individuals working to identify fear and toxic behavior. This action leads to more collaboration and creativity that empowers everyone to be their best selves, as well as encourages employee’s best work and helps companies achieve their technology dreams with more velocity. Attendees will learn how to identify fear-based and toxic behavior in the workplace, how to address this behavior and how to move towards a more trust-based work environment.
How to Kick Fear and Toxicity out of the Workplace - 2019 Global Azure Bootca...Heather Newman
Fear and toxicity are words that have no place in meetings, the workplace or our lives. Everyone wants to be appreciated and respected for the contributions made to our jobs, careers, and organizations. Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP, Content Panda as she talks through the whys of bad workplace behavior and how to kick them out with practical examples and guidance. Attendees will learn how to identify the qualities of a fear-based workplace and how to move to a trust-based workplace. The session will dive into the lizard brain, impostor syndrome and the art of re-framing with tips and tricks to take back to your organization. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging starts with individuals working to identify fear and toxic behavior. This action leads to more collaboration and creativity that empowers everyone to be their best selves, as well as encourages employee’s best work and helps companies achieve their technology dreams with more velocity. Attendees will learn how to identify fear-based and toxic behavior in the workplace, how to address this behavior and how to move towards a more trust-based work environment.
SharePoint Saturday Boise 2019 - Microsoft Teams DemystifiedHeather Newman
Dive in
Explore
Collaborate
Content Panda CEO, Simeon Cathey demystifies Microsoft Teams be showing you:
-When and where to create a Team
- Managing your files
- Do's and Dont's
- Integrating other apps in Teams
- The worst in Teams
- Safety net, go with confidence
SharePoint Saturday Cape Town 2019 - - Without Change, There Would Be No Butt...Heather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know.
Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go.
You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint.
Shazam!
Office 365 Tour South Africa - Port Elizabeth - Without Change, There Would B...Heather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know.
Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go.
You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint.
Shazam!
Office 365 Tour South Africa - East London - Without Change, There Would Be N...Heather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know.
Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go.
You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint.
Shazam!
SharePoint Saturday Johannesburg 2019 - Without Change, There Would Be No But...Heather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know.
Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go.
You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint.
Shazam!
SharePoint Conference NA 2018 - How to Kick Fear and Toxicity Out of The Work...Heather Newman
Fear and toxicity are words that have no place in meetings, the workplace or in our lives. These two words are bad for the world, and we all want to be appreciated and respected for the contributions we make to our jobs, careers, and organizations. Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP, Content Panda, CMO and Creative Maven as she talks through the whys of bad workplace behavior and how to kick it out of your world with practical examples and guidance. We'll talk about tossing people under the bus, the acronym C.Y.A., the lizard brain, the Imposter Theory and the art of reframing.
SPTechCon Austin 2017 - Without Change, There Would Be No Butterflies: 4 Step...Heather Newman
Consumers expect a new relationship with businesses, which means internal teams need a new way to work – one enabling them to access information quickly and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time.
Business transformation is at the heart of every business especially inside everyday processes and driving innovation with purchased productivity tools.
The good news is many companies are turning to Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365. The bad news is adoption is sorely lacking. The culprit? Change management. Recent studies find more than half of companies point to poor change management as the top reason for their SharePoint deployments failing.
Join Heather Newman, Co-Founder, Chief Evangelist and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a successful change management project:
Planning and sponsorship
Awareness
Learning
Readiness and adoption
You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of the pitfalls to avoid and proven tips to jumpstart business transformation and how to implement with your change management initiative for your Office 365 and SharePoint platforms.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
5. Without Change, There Would Be No Butterflies: Microsoft Teams and Planner Adoption
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14. Modern Workplace Challenges
40% of productivity is lost when
switching tasks
The average time a knowledge worker spends
searching for knowledge is 2.5 hours
50% of the people hold a job
that is compatible with at
least partial telework
15. The market is full of Project
Management and
Collaboration Choices
16. The fact is that businesses do not have emotion.
Products do not have emotion. Humans do.
Humans want to feel something.
And humans make mistakes.
Which is why we want to connect, make
to-do lists and plans to execute
@heddanewman
17. Focus on the “Why”
Not on the “What”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUDJoHeJbzw
18. Technology
Acceptance
Model
Perceived Usefulness
The degree to which a
person believes that using
a particular system would
enhance his or her
performance
Perceived Ease of Use
The degree to which a
person believes that using
a particular system would
be free from effort
@heddanewman
20. Adoption Campaign Checklist
Define Your Vision
Choose Executive Sponsors
Define Key Stakeholders
Define Use Cases/Business Scenarios
Gather Your Champions
Release in Phases
Adoption Communication Plan
End User Training
Look to Experts
Make it Fun - Gamification
Measure, Share, Iterate
https://www.contentpanda.com/downloads
22. Serves as a role model
Articulate value proposition
Issue future company-wide
announcements and updates
Executive Support
@JeffTeper @heddanewman
23. Outline Your Vision & Success Factors
It’s All About Value
Why SharePoint Why
Teams?
What is your vision?
@heddanewman
24. “Use Case” Driven
Look to the Business
Sales and Marketing
R&D, Production and
Operations
Finance and Accounting
Information Technology
HR and Internal
Communications
Legal & Compliance
@heddanewman
30. End User Training
In-person
On-demand
In-context
End users learn in many different
ways, there are lot of options in
the marketplace and Microsoft has
resources for training as well.
Microsoft 365 Adoption Guide:
https://aka.ms/M365AG
Planning Workbook:
https://aka.ms/M365AGWorkbook
@heddanewman
31. Expert Opinions &
Guidance
All of these folks have been
working on user adoption a long
time and their best practices are
excellent.
Sue Hanley, Jennifer Mason, Robert
Bogue, Tracy van der Schyff, and
Darrell Webster
@heddanewman
33. Make it fun (buck the
company culture)
Use an online scavenger hunt
as a fun way to encourage
usage
Provide recognition for
content contribution or
usage
Gamification &
Surveys
@heddanewman
34. Measure Share
Success and Iterate
Broaden Engagement
Create Surveys
Listen to Issues and Pivot on
Them
@heddanewman
38. Coffee in the Cloud
@CITCTV
https://aka.ms/CoffeeintheCloud
Get more from Azure & Office 365
Business
Solutions
Best
Practices &
How-To’s
For Admin’s
and
Champions
39. Microsoft 365 Adoption Guide: https://aka.ms/M365AG
Planning Workbook: https://aka.ms/M365AGWorkbook
41. Teams on Air Podcast
https://itunes.apple.com/us/p
odcast/a-day-in-the-life-on-
teams-mobile-
client/id1342881671?i=100041
1520145&mt=2
42. Short Video Tidbits
End User Training:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/microsoftteams/enduser-training
This has a great list of short snackable
videos for many tips and tricks for using
Microsoft Teams.
43. Team Academy for
ITPros
After consuming the module, the
audience will understand to what
how Teams leverages Office 365
and what the requirements are
for an optimal user experience.
The PowerPoint can also be used
to run a workshop with
infrastructure teams before
rolling out Teams.
Foundations – Core
components: Video | Deck
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaSO
UojkSiGnKuE30ckcjnDVkMNqDv0Vl
Let’s connect – Open your LinkedIn app – go to the bottom and tap the people icon, second one and go to the top and click find near by (off) you have to have location service on for your LinkedIn App for this to work – folks with appear and you can connect and also have a way to find me later.
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The technology acceptance model (TAM) is an information systems theory that models how users come to accept and use a technology. The model suggests that when users are presented with a new technology, a number of factors influence their decision about how and when they will use it, notably: Fred Davis in 1989.
Davis, F. D.; Bagozzi, R. P.; Warshaw, P. R. (1989), "User acceptance of computer technology: A comparison of two theoretical models", Management Science, 35 (8): 982–1003, doi:10.1287/mnsc.35.8.982
Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread. Everett Rogers, a professor of communication studies, popularized the theory in his book Diffusion of Innovations; the book was first published in 1962, and is now in its fifth edition (2003).[1] Rogers argues that diffusion is the process by which an innovation is communicated over time among the participants in a social system. The origins of the diffusion of innovations theory are varied and span multiple disciplines.
Rogers proposes that four main elements influence the spread of a new idea: the innovation itself, communication channels, time, and a social system. This process relies heavily on human capital. The innovation must be widely adopted in order to self-sustain. Within the rate of adoption, there is a point at which an innovation reaches critical mass.
The categories of adopters are innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards.[2] Diffusion manifests itself in different ways and is highly subject to the type of adopters and innovation-decision process. The criterion for the adopter categorization is innovativeness, defined as the degree to which an individual adopts a new idea.
A butterfly starts life as a very small, round, oval or cylindrical egg. The coolest thing about butterfly eggs, especially monarch butterfly eggs, is that if you look close enough you can actually see the tiny caterpillar growing inside of it. This is the beginning of the journey of metamorphosis in business this is where we get out ducks in row – secure support like on this leaf and define use cases, behavior and success.
Butterfly larvae are actually what we call caterpillars. Caterpillars do not stay in this stage for very long and mostly, in this stage all they do is eat. In business this is where we fuel up just like a caterpillar – gather our team, open feedback channels and determine our communication tactics.
This is the most intriguing stage of butterfly development, which appears catastrophic from the perspective of the caterpillar. When the little crawler is fully grown and can eat no more, it simply dangles from a branch and spins a protective cocoon around itself so it can safely rest and digest all the food that has been consumed in the previous stage.
In business this is where we truly develop the relationship with our audience prepping them for change – learn about them, mapping out a training schedule
At last in this final stage, the fully developed butterfly is ready to emerge from the chrysalis. After breaking free, the butterfly’s wings are still folded and wet and more rest time is necessary to allow blood to flow into the wings. Finally when the unfurled wings are fully dry, the butterfly is ready to take flight and share its beauty with the world.
In business this is where we support, assess and measure all the things that have happened before – we provide ongoing support, and measure success