How do you get your team to successfully adopt new technology? In this episode, Natasha caught up with Sam McVaigh to discuss the positive impact a digital champions programme has had within his organisation.

An effective digital champions programme can boost business transformation to support some of the challenges organisations face today. Introducing a team of champions from each department can drive Microsoft 365 adoption in an engaging and cost-effective way across your organisation.

In this recorded webinar, Sam McVaigh, Director of People & Inclusion at Bury Council, shares insights into their journey through a successful Champions programme.

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For some organisations wellbeing is mostly a tick box exercise, yet they’re at risk of being left behind. Wellbeing is no longer just about doing the right thing. It also can make a difference to an organisation’s bottom line. Whether reducing the cost of absenteeism and presenteeism or ensuring your best employees don’t leave for a business where they feel better supported, it makes financial sense to invest in the wellbeing of your staff.

New research says one in four UK workers would leave their job for another organisation that supported them better around stress and burnout. Yet barely half say their organisation supports them well at the moment.

How clued up is your organisation about wellbeing? And is it leveraging any of the opportunities to support wellbeing through technology? Technology can make our work easier though only when we use the tools well.

Agile is a mindset that empowers organisations and employees, creating high performing teams. The key benefits of agile working are recognised as increased customer satisfaction, faster time to market, greater innovation and increased employee engagement.

How do your new work arrangements impact culture – the lifeblood of your organisation? You’ve probably realised a hybrid culture is more important than ever.

In the hybrid workplace, you need a culture that drives mindset and behaviours to encourage your people to stay healthy, happy, productive – and aligned with your organisation’s goals. Whether your people are in the office or at home. Tools, policies, and processes just aren’t enough. To truly embrace hybrid work, you need thoughtful consideration of a hybrid culture. 

Congratulations! You deployed the tech and launched your first hybrid working model. You now have people in the office and at home. So how do you support your people to feel connected and experience those natural, ‘water cooler’ moments?

We know that strong engagement levels lead to higher productivity, better work-life balance and more closely connected colleagues. Getting those natural water cooler moments is key.

Microsoft Teams has become the foundation of many businesses’ communication and collaboration frameworks but can easily become chaotic without the right governance policies.

Managing an organisation-spanning Microsoft Teams environment is not an easy task due to major governance measures that must be in place to contain sprawl, secure internal data and ensure organisational-wide visibility and efficiency.

In just two years the Covid pandemic has turned business upside down. Homeworking is now widespread, and customers are more likely to engage digitally. It’s brought digitalisation from hype to the new normal.

If organisations are to survive and prosper in this new normal, they need to reimagine strategies and operations to unlock future value through digital technology.

You launch new tech and suddenly the whole organisation is streamlined, collaborating and efficient. Employees are ecstatic and change the way they’ve been working for the last twenty years. If only!

Digital adoption is only 20% about technology. The other 80% is people and processes. So why do so many organisations miss out the importance of delivering business change?

Join Gini Holden, a culture change specialist from Ricoh.

Gini uses what she learnt and researched, to help businesses deliver transformational culture change and maximise ROI on the IT tools they give their people. If you’ve ever bought a Bag For Life, you can blame Gini for the fact you paid for it without thinking.

Humans are fascinating programmed beings. We’ve used tools since the dawn of our evolution 6.5m year ago. If you want to drive ROI on IT tools, placing people and their programming at the heart of any transformation is how to do it.