Randomised Coffee Trials made easy! Spark pairs employees within a company to meet for coffee each month. Build connectedness, employee engagement & innovation.
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super happy to announce the book is really really out now! i am incredibly happy to see this resource available out there in the world, the chapters contain some amazing insights (read @misoca's chapter for some if the best), a wealth of knowledge, and it's all about serendipity!
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Serendipity Across Contexts: From Offices to Post-Conflict Settings
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It made my day yesterday to see this promoted in the office of @UKRI_News and clearly thriving in the wild! Thanks as always goes to my friend across the pond @misoca and the original inspiration of #serendipity from Pedro Medina. Explanation here: gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.… – at Greenwich, London
Serendipity, content generation, and success @garyvee
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There are tools you can buy to set them up like fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/a-…, but we have our own spreadsheet that produces the random matches and then someone sends out an email.
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Randomised coffee trials are the best thing I've found. Give you structured serendipity / permission for conversations without "tasks" overshadowing.
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Thanks for sharing @SueLaceybryant . Randomised coffee trial would be a good tool to help us get to know new staff as we head back into the office @necs
Randomised Coffee Trials: a simple tool to enable people to talk with others they might not otherwise meet. They allow us to learn from each other, form relationships, break down silos & build a sense of community. Find a coordinator & off you go. library.nhs.uk/wp-content/up… @ukfci
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Just published my first LinkedIn article in forever on why everyone should do randomised coffee trials - please have a read on how I did it and what I learned. Would love to know if you've done these too!
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#rct #orgculture
"'Open-door' teams frequently communicate with colleagues of any hierarchy within the organisation. They are also more likely to stay than 'closed-door' teams, which are siloed, interact mostly with the same groups, are disconnected from the broader company culture."
Improving #employeeretention in the new world of work requires more than just #remotework flexibility & salary raises. Read Humanyze's latest findings on the conditions that drive #turnover & behaviors that help retain top talent: humanyze.com/human-resources…
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The take-away? Set up some social rituals, keep the energy ongoing - it takes time! - make sure you’re focused on every level of hire
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Random coffee (nesta.org.uk/blog/institutio…)- is there a way to use tech to easily help arrange? Thanks
"Executives can't simply hope that collaboration will spontaneously occur in the right places at the right time in their organizations."
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"It is hardly possible to overrate the value ... of placing human beings in contact with persons disimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar..."
- John Stuart Mill
“Within a field, it’s not going to be as hard to meet people... The harder part is when you don’t know they’re there, you don’t know they’re valuable to meet, you don’t know their work exists and is important.” - @mattsclancy
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It seems there is an emerging consensus that the big challenge for remote work is establishing and breaking out of a network.
I don't view this as an insoluble problem, but it's important to be realistic about challenges, if only to direct efforts to solving them.
Our paper, just published in @NatureHumBehav, uses diff-in-diff to separate the effects of remote work from COVID-19. Remote work causes more siloed communication between workers, more time spent on IM and email, and, surprisingly, less time in meetings. nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
Does your organization create safe spaces for such conversation?
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If I were a workplace manager today, I'd devote my time to re-recruiting the people on my team.
Are they in the right role?
How can I help them grow?
What personal accommodations can I make?
The Chicago Tribune says 55% Americans will likely look for a new job in the next Yr.
Randomised Coffee Trials are an insurance mechanism. You structure your time as effectively as you can, but if you accept even the smallest possibility that you might have overlooked something, design a space for randomness as that is a crucial source of #serendipity.
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If we have big goals & ambitions for improvement, we need a mindset & methods for experimentation & learning. We have to expect some failure on the way. We won't get there using the approaches & thinking that might have worked before. I'm inspired by this @OzolinsJanis graphic
