introNetworks Webinar
I had a great conversation with Mark Sylvester yesterday during a webinar on promoting organizational sync. Mark has a company called introNetworks that helps connect people via smart social networks.
I first used introNetworks software when I attended the TED Conference (Technology, Entertainment and Design). The software allowed me to choose attributes that best describe me and then view the attributes of more than 1,000 people at the conference. Being part of this smart network allowed me to quickly recognize people, gave me ideas for conversation starters, and help me find people with common interests.
I hope that if you participated in the webinar today you found the conversation helpful. If you missed it, you can listen to it here. I think there is great potential to promote organizational sync with a resource like introNetworks. Anything leaders can do to facilitate different ways to connect like minded people is helpful in promoting sync.
What is the ROI of Sync?
I was meeting with a CEO earlier this week, and he emphasized several times during our conversation that when CEOs consider getting outside help to promote sync they ask, “What’s the ROI?”
This raises an important question: How does one measure the ROI of getting in sync? It’s intuitively obvious that being in sync is helpful. Having an organization in which everyone is working to move you in the same direction is more cost effective than the alternative. And having a customer promise that is in sync with the value you actually deliver will certainly get you better financial results. But where’s the quantitative data? Read more
What is Sync?
As many of you know Dialect is focused on promoting sync. We’ve published a book, Uncommon Sense, that illustrates principles of sync through a fictional story of a CEO and his leadership team.
But what is sync? Simply put, in organizational terms, it is departments and people using their strengths and understanding their roles, effectively working toward shared goals.
