If having the best talent is almost useless if you can\u2019t get them to collaborate, then to some degree our mission in HR is assuring that we jump to the next step after we acquire and retain that talent.\u00a0 However, the technologies I\u2019ve pointed to don\u2019t really work yet for HR.\u00a0 Creating and mapping talent into collaboration and innovation networks isn\u2019t as easy as saying it should be so.\u00a0 What we find in the mapping exercises of networks is that there are clear hubs of information that consistently facilitate the most information sharing or idea generation.\u00a0 These hubs (individuals or small groups of talented people) can be identified and should be.<\/p>\n
Brokers who serve as bridges across a number of subgroups within networks are often quite influential.\u00a0 \u201cBridging\u201d relationships uniquely position brokers to knit together an entire network and often make these interactions the most efficient means of gathering and disseminating information in a high-touch way. Brokers also tend to have the best perspective on what aspects of a reorganization will work across different subgroups and a high degree of ground-level credibility with people from disparate functions, locations, or occupations. What\u2019s more, if management can persuade brokers to be early adopters and proponents of change, it can significantly boost the odds that a big transformational effort\u2014involving a major cultural shift, postmerger integration, or the implementation of new technology\u2014will succeed.\u00a0 ((Cross, Robert, Parise, Salvatore and Wiess, Leigh.\u00a0 April, 2007.\u00a0 “The role of networks in organizational change.”\u00a0 Retrived from http:\/\/www.mckinseyquarterly.com.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What\u2019s particularly interesting to me is that the authors go on to point out that the broker is not necessarily the influencers who are much more easily identified.\u00a0 These should clearly not be confused as you want to center your hubs around the brokers who can drive the most advances to your development processes.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure what type of a competency you\u2019d create to identify the \u201cbroker\u201d but I think it\u2019s possibly one of the most important first steps we in HR can take to begin involving ourselves in the innovation and collaboration processes.\u00a0 It\u2019s a combination of organizational understanding, availability to other employees, and the willingness to coach, share and assist others.\u00a0 The brokers have a high level of trust throughout the organization and can help bring others together.\u00a0 These skills are the foundations and you may already have them identified.\u00a0 Bringing these skills together through analytics might just tell you who your key brokers are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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