| Leadership takes vision, courage and the ability to | | | | provides you with a resource to use down the road |
| take risk. Leadership is about leading; accepting new | | | | for training new employees. When you hire the right |
| technologies and learning to apply them in unique or | | | | values fit individual, provide them a company MP3 |
| non-traditional methods to provide additional value to | | | | player chalked full of past broadcasts to help get |
| all stakeholders. | | | | them up to speed on their job or about the |
| One area where many businesses lack vision is in the | | | | company. You can have the broadcasts transcribed |
| information technology arena. Leadership and | | | | so you have a written digital record as well for those |
| employee retention can be greatly enhanced by | | | | who prefer to read. |
| looking forward at how technology enhances the | | | | You could use it to praise those who like to be |
| employment condition. There are current internet | | | | openly praised for achieving a certain milestone or for |
| technologies for businesses with networks that can | | | | best exhibiting the organization's values. You could |
| be affordably incorporated into daily practices to build | | | | use this to drive innovation and stream line processes |
| a loyal employee base that are eager to retain you | | | | while opening lines of communication within the |
| and grow a prosperous enterprise. Let's examine just | | | | company. It can also be used as a value added tool |
| one. | | | | for your suppliers and partners. You can offer them |
| Intranet Radio (streaming or recorded) | | | | the capabilities of running advertisements on your |
| What is it? It's your own broadcast within your | | | | internal radio station, free or fee. Interview your |
| network. It doesn't go outside the company. It takes | | | | suppliers and partners to help your employees better |
| very little equipment; a microphone, a computer, | | | | understand how each supplier fits into the overall |
| recording software (there are free applications for | | | | picture of the organization. |
| this online), streaming server software, a cataloguing | | | | Technologies with the right combination of incentives |
| or indexing software to make it searchable and your | | | | and organizational values to drive their adoption and |
| current network's infrastructure. | | | | use by employees will be a future trend for leaders |
| Most businesses haven't thought to use this | | | | to contemplate. Leaders should get out ahead of |
| technology internally and create their own company | | | | wave and create their own trends to ensure |
| intranet radio station. This would allow you to not | | | | technology makes their organization more effective, |
| only create a venue for reminding and reinforcing | | | | rather than less. |
| your organization's values and value to employees, | | | | Utilizing technology like this will increase the |
| and would offer you a means of consistently | | | | organization's transparency, broaden communication |
| addressing ethics issues. You could have employees | | | | channels and profoundly influence future leaders of |
| interviewed and showcased on segments. It can | | | | the organization. It takes creative leaders using the |
| even be used as a great tool for capturing human | | | | full spectrum of new technology enabling resources |
| capital; the knowledge of your employees. If they | | | | to incorporate them into the organization's overall |
| are interviewed and asked how they solved a certain | | | | strategic plan to help shape your future outcome. |
| problem or overcame a particular challenge, then it | | | | Your alternative is to react to it. |