Promoting teamwork and connectivity

Technology advancement has severely interfered with networking, particularly in the business sector. It has ruined relationships in regards.
What measures can businesses take to ensure that social media usage enhances rather than hinders personal connections and collaboration among employees?

Reply 1

Cedric Fred

To ensure that social media usage enhances personal connections and collaboration among employees, businesses can take several measures. Firstly, they can establish clear guidelines and policies regarding social media usage during work hours. Secondly, businesses can foster a culture of open communication and encourage employees to use social media for collaborative purposes, such as sharing ideas and updates. Thirdly, providing training on effective and responsible social media usage can help employees make the most of these platforms while fostering stronger connections. Finally, businesses can promote team-building activities and events that encourage face-to-face interactions, complementing online connections with real-life relationships.

Reply 2

NonIndigenous

Depends a lot on attitude of individuals, and corporate leadership. Being forced to work from home, pushed me to network remotely far outside of my local office that I was originally based in. That happened to also align with the corporate strategy at the time, which was to foster a more 'open' culture across the wider organisation and encourage people to seek out work in other areas of the business.

You need leadership, directors and managers who are in agreement about such strategy, that is: sharing their available pool of human resources, and implementing systems or incentives to facilitate that. If you have some 'individualistic' manager who prefers to silo his teams away from the rest of the organisation for fear of having their staff poached, and does everything they can to get in the way of their staff working on projects in other areas of the wider business... then you have a problem, and these people need to be dealt with.

Some managers treat their employees like pawns. Others treat their employees like people with individual ambitions and aspirations that can be exploited to the betterment of that individual and the wider organisation, but not necessarily to the betterment of that particular manager who happens to be in charge. You need managers who support the corporate vision, and support employees who also are aligned to that vision in whatever way that might be the case, and who can in those instances place their own 'local' self-interests to one side.