Overview

This best practice provides recommendations to help you find the right staffing resources for your digital workplace launch.

Recommendation

Best Practices for Assembling a Team

• Start assembling your team as soon as possible. 
• Create a skills map with identified knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs).
• Securing the right team won't be easy - expect a lot of meetings, conversations, and convincing to get the right team.
• Check on resource availability and confirm – have a back-up plan.

Make Sure to Share Your Plan

• Invite team members to your project room.
• Summarize the overall launch plan with the team.
• Set out individual action plans for each key role.
• Solicit feedback.

Find Your Champions

• Sometimes it takes a person on the inside to show others the ropes and win them over. Start communication with these groups as early as possible – determine what they will need to know and when.
• Identify the evangelists, experts, influencers, business leaders, savvy adopters to social tools & communication technologies within your company. 
• Identify your champions and empower them with your key messages any way that you can. Then ask them to go recruit more advocates.

Project Team Roles