As most surveys go, there are four basic steps to build a strong survey: Identify target population: This is the most important part of the survey as it pushes you to better define the purpose for carrying out ONA in your organization. It is essential to define boundary conditions for the survey at this stage and identify … Continue reading Building a great Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) survey
If you’ve been looking for a way to map network data for your organization and derive meaningful output, you are at the right place. In my last post, I mentioned that there were two ways one could go about collecting data to create network maps. While each has its pro and cons, I would recommend … Continue reading ONA: Collecting interaction data
A good map is the only tool you need when lost and given our perpetual ‘lost’ state with regards to people, it should thus come as no surprise when maps come to the rescue here too. There is of course much art involved in drawing the right map, which is precisely the raison d'etre of … Continue reading The map that we’ve all been looking for
Not so long ago (about a month & half to be exact) I began my quest to find a way of measuring organizational health. The deeper I delved into trying to define health, the more entangled I got. I realized I needed to get the definition right before I tried finding the right tool. What … Continue reading Defining Org Health
In my quest to find answers to the question of 'organization health', I stumbled upon a wealth of information here - http://connectedness.blogspot.ie/ The blog is dated but helps answer most of my queries. What is my take on Organization Health? Hold on just a little bit longer 🙂
I have been grappling with the term ‘organizational health’ for a while now. So I am doing what I do every time I need to clear my head – Write. The more I read about organizational health, definitions and mechanisms to measure it, the more convinced I am that the concept exists more in research … Continue reading Getting Organizations Healthy
When towards the end of last year, INC.com came up with its list of best companies; it got me thinking about the companies that inspired me in 2015. These companies make it to this list for multiple reasons. Some were brave enough to experiment, some achieved monumental feats and some just inspired us by doing … Continue reading Companies that inspired in 2015
Improvisational comedy has lot to teach us especially when it comes to how to handle ideas in the corporate world. Ideas are extremely fragile. They appear but for a moment and it only takes one ‘but’ or a ‘no’ to quell it. Rarely do ideas ever survive criticism at the formative stage. It is when … Continue reading Yes and…
'If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.' - Rudyard Kipling When I walked in to work today morning, little did I know that I had an extremely long day ahead of me. One look at my mailbox and I knew that I would easily be clocking close to 14 hours … Continue reading The art of storytelling
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