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An Igloo What If...
Howdy Iglooers!
I wanted to see if we can both have a little fun (within corporate regulations, ahem) and answer a digital workplace question to see if there is an odd thread amongst us all.
WHAT IF...
Igloo accidentally released our top-secret machine learning AI onto all of your digital workplaces, what would be the strangest thing it learns about your company?
At the risk of oversharing, it would probably learn very quickly that we speak in GIPHY. We are slightly obsessed with figuring out which baby picture belongs to whom, and it might also realize we confuse cake and beer often.
How about ya'll?
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If you released your AI machine into our DWP, you'd find that our weekly all-division meetings reliably have this agenda item: JUICY GOSSIP. The Juicy Gossip tradition started years ago, when our Program Management team self-managed for a while. The team would end each meeting with someone offering juicy gossip from around the company or field. At some point, other teams, and then full divisions, picked up on the idea and now JG is a staple across the company. Granted, it has morphed so that the "gossip" is usually a celebrity sighting ("I saw Anderson Cooper in line at my bank!") or kid-related ("My son asked a girl to Homecoming and she said YES!"). However, every once in a while, the entry is actually real juicy gossip--two former staff members who are now a couple, for example.
It's a great way to add some levity to our staff meetings, and I'm betting we're probably the only company on the planet with a JUICY GOSSIP agenda item reliably included in all of our meeting minutes.
Jocelyn Flint - this is amazing on so many levels! I am now left wondering what the juiciest tidbit has been... darn it!
April Morris Tell me more abut Thoughtful Thursday please! and a cute contest?
Christina Peschong - Agreed, I want to have a Thoughtful Tuesday and understand this better!
April Morris !
April Morris I would also love to hear more about this Thoughtful Thursday!! Sounds very intriguing!!
Thanks for the interest! The Thoughtful Thursday is designed to be a positive post near the end of the week to get us all through to Friday. I recruited a group of contributors, created a weekly rotation, taught them how to post on the blog channel, and simply remind them that it's their week to post. Some write their own posts and some select positive graphics to share, it is up to them on the topic. A recent week's was a "cute contest" and asked our users to vote who was the cutest. (I did a targeted recruitment on this contributor late last year after noticing his pithy comments during our wellness challenges!)
April Morris What a great idea!
Jocelyn Flint - I am stealing this (with credit!)
April Morris - I love how focused you were on building out a rotation and especially your recruitment activities. I feel like this is a really underutilized activity and pays/realizes so much value down the road.
April Morris This is awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!!
It would learn that the most liked, most commented post we've had (by far) was the recent one from our COO declaring that we've added 5 new holidays to the calendar. Nothing spurs a happy culture more than permission for us all to NOT WORK at the same time!
Steven Spadt - the gift that we all truly want!
Steven Spadt That is truly a gift!
Steven Spadt If you ever need to drive home the point that it's the right content that drives engagement, this is your example!
Jocelyn Flint - this is the truest proof point of all.
I feel like our playbook needs a page that reads meaningful content drives engagement as the golden rule!
Thanks Tom Ryan, it has worked out better than expected. Though we may have to come up with a new series next year!
April Morris, true! But this one is going into the engagement hall-o-fame.
Cherlyn Bryans, Mindy Montgomery
You have to answer this!
Tom Ryan - I can't find the post, but it would learn that one of our employees once emailed her pants size to the entire company by accident.
I think it would also learn how often people used to look at the menu for the KEEN Kanteen (where a lot of us ate at least one meal 5 days a week), and how amazing their chocolate chip cookies are.
We're also pretty creative folks, regardless of our roles at KEEN. Crafting, thrifting, upcycling . . . recreating famous works of art with our families while at home in lockdown . . . you name it!
cc: Mindy Montgomery
Cherlyn Bryans so much goodness in this post, ha!
That poor employee... I imagine there was a ton of explanation for that email.
I am sort of imagining it deducing that campfolk's dietary staple was chocolate chip cookies and questioning the nutritional value of said circular chocolate delivery devices. :)
Cherlyn Bryans OMG I forgot about the pants thing!
And yes, people's number one use of our intranet (before COVID) was accessing the KEEN Kanteen menu :)