Are your employees lacking initiative, constantly needing direction over almost every task, and generally confused and prone to time-wasting? Give them SharePoint. This web-based application platform is a flexible tool that provides a number of functions and capabilities such as intranet, collaboration, search, CMS, employee directory, blogs, wiki, news and personalisation. Like any other office application, employees can build with it because it can be easily customized to suit their individual needs. Advertising work to your workers is easy with Microsoft SharePoint because it reduces the amount of work your employees have to do everyday while increasing their productivity. SharePoint doesn’t just give them a portal for communicating with each other; it’s been shown to subconsciously engage your employees in thinking more about work. It’s more than just a technology, it’s a business solution.
Every business is unique with different needs and SharePoint is flexible enough to fit any situation. SharePoint can be implemented to make worker’s lives easier by reducing their workload and increasing their productivity. Proper planning, support and implementation of this tool can be a ground breaking application for your business. If your company has branches in different locations you can greatly benefit from SharePoint implementation because this tool can cross geographical barriers. This tool will allow your employees working in different locations to collaborate and work as if in one place.
If you already have SharePoint in place, are you having trouble getting your workers to use it? How do you advertise SharePoint to your workers post-deployment? Business owners must understand that SharePoint is not just any software they can set up and hand over to employees. For it to be effective, you need to find out the challenges each employee face and how the platform can help them. SharePoint development and consulting to be effective must involve your workers. By asking the users of their needs and addressing their concerns can you let your workers know that the tool is set up for their benefit. Customising SharePoint implementation to meet your workers pain points can have a psychological impact on them because they will feel that the tools are set up for their benefit.
Get your workers on board from the planning stage and keep them through deployment and beyond. Get the word out and give them the opportunity, suggest how to tweak the tool to fit their needs. It’ll be much easier to advertise to your workers about SharePoint if you’re using the right approach and showing them that your goal is to make their lives easier. Find people who are genuinely interested in the tool and assign them to be SharePoint evangelist. Get them to fully understand the benefits of SharePoint so that they can help train users and answer their concerns. Get your workers to use SharePoint by designing your implementation around their needs, reducing their workload and making their lives easier.