{"id":828,"date":"2021-04-16T11:15:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T11:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2021\/04\/16\/lenovos-global-employee-kickoff-the-evolution-of-company-meetings\/"},"modified":"2021-04-16T11:15:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T11:15:03","slug":"lenovos-global-employee-kickoff-the-evolution-of-company-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2021\/04\/16\/lenovos-global-employee-kickoff-the-evolution-of-company-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo\u2019s global employee kickoff: The evolution of company meetings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p><em>Disclosure: Most of the vendors mentioned are clients of the author.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I first started in technology, I worked for ROLM Systems and our employee events were largely weekly: we\u2019d get together on Friday afternoons for beer, snacks, and updates.\u00a0 All-hands meetings were \u00a0less frequent and required travel; they were nowhere near as much fun but just as critical for understanding top-level strategy and my role within it. (I was less a fan of these because I\u2019d often end up getting a virus \u2014 large crowds and finger food are a danger \u2014 and spending a week to recover every other time.)<\/p>\n<p>But big events often get employees, particularly sales employees, fired up and motivated. And \u00a0they help create critical connections we often need to complete a task or progress as an employee. I\u2019ve been wondering how companies are handling these things during the pandemic, so I was excited to be invited to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.lenovo.com\/pressroom\/press-releases\/company-transformation-strategy-from-devices-to-solutions\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lenovo\u2019s all-hands meeting<\/a>\u00a0virtually.\u00a0 It was nicely done, given the limitations of technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3615488\/lenovo-s-global-employee-kickoff-the-evolution-of-company-meetings.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclosure: Most of the vendors mentioned are clients of the author. When I first started in technology, I worked for ROLM Systems and our employee events were largely weekly: we\u2019d get together on Friday afternoons for beer, snacks, and updates.\u00a0 All-hands meetings were \u00a0less frequent and required travel; they were nowhere near as much fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}