A Connected Commons & i4cp Partnership

Connected
Talent

Accelerating Transitions
for Workforce Agility

Discover the practices and tools to develop personal networks that accelerate employee onboarding, promotions, and transitions

Research shows that accelerating talent transitions drives innovation, efficiency, retention, inclusion and belonging and ultimately organization agility. As we move into a new world of work, practices that accelerate a connected workforce deliver unexpected and often unrealized benefits.

The increasing rate of employee transitions within and between organizations damages organizational performance in hidden ways:

  • When factoring on-boarding, promotions, lateral transfers, contingent/gig/agile work and acquisitions/restructurings, it’s common that 30-40% of your employee base is in a significant transition at any given time.
  • As the collaborative intensity of work has risen the network impact of these transitions does far greater damage to efficiency, innovation and engagement than leaders typically realize.
  • Organizations focused only on reducing first year attrition or new hire time to productivity are investing in the least important benefit (economically) of these transitions.
 

Calculate the Benefits of Accelerating Role Transitions

Introduction

Organizations equipping employees to transition across roles and projects more fluidly enjoy surprising economic benefits.

The transition calculator shows you the full impact of improving transition success rates as seen in the pie chart reflecting a live 10,000 person organization.

Please input your organization’s figures into the following pages. Please use the pre-loaded figure based on our research where you do not know answers.

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Want to discuss your specific interest or need? We would be happy to explore options to help you transform transitions at your organization, including licensing of materials, program development and workshops.

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ABOUT THE CONNECTED COMMONS

The Connected Commons is a member-based community of business and academic thought leaders, co-managed by founder Rob Cross and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp). We are committed to the application of social network science to improve the success and satisfaction of individuals, teams, and organizations. To learn more about our members, mission and research, visit our website.

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