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Bad labels are confounding to learn
Companies, and their software, are filled with highly specialized acronyms that you can only learn on the job.
While established employees can master acronyms over time, new employees can take a long time to learn them. When buttons are labeled with acronyms, that can be a recipe for disaster if you’re training new people on the job.
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Slow work computers
A zippy piece of software makes work feel more efficient, and the core speed and responsiveness of a digital experience is the secret sauce to making any piece of software feel like it’s working for you.
But whereas over the past decade, the consumer software on our phones...
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Why is enterprise software slow?
Some businesses are built upon aging desktop PCs. ut an even bigger reason, is that nothing inside the enterprise software world is making software go faster. Take the example of Google, which in ranking its search results, examines a site’s speed to load. That sort of auditing has pushed web...
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Workflows lead employees nowhere
One of the greatest divides between consumer software and enterprise software comes down to workflow.
If you’re ordering a meal via Uber Eats, every step is perfectly sequential. You know your options, and you know when you’ve done each step successfully. Compare that t...
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Put extra effort into onboarding
Remote workers won’t have the opportunity to be involved in spontaneous conversations or team lunches, but there are other things you can do to help them settle:
- provide info with new job critical stuff: team member introductions (personal bios, photos, advice for new employees)...
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- Before the pandemic, many companies got away with a simple "this is where the kitchen is, now sit here beside this more senior person and learn" approach to onboarding a new employee.
- When there are no specific resources for onboarding, employees
The power of observation
Observing and chatting with colleagues helps us gain valuable knowledge. Employers recognize how important it is to enable workers to learn from each other, on an ongoing, informal basis.
Popular learning models have tended to suggest that 20% of our learning about a job co...
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