🛑 Are You Giving New Hires Too Much Information, Too Soon? While enthusiasm on an employee’s first day is essential, the real game-changer lies in leaders crafting a clear and impactful plan for those critical first weeks. Research shows too much information at once leads to an ineffective onboarding experience, causing disengagement and even early turnover. However, a better structured and more people-centered onboarding helps employees gain ⏳ proficiency faster. ➡️ Swipe through this carousel for practical strategies to simplify onboarding, helping employees transform information overload into meaningful connections 🤝 and deeper engagement. #Onboarding #HR #LD #EmployeeExperience #WorkplaceLearning
Slick+
Technology, Information and Internet
The easy way to capture and share employee know-how
About us
The easy way to find knowledge when you need it. Slick Plus is an innovative knowledge management platform and communications hub where your people share their expertise via short-form video. Slick Plus bonds teams and supports everyone to do their best work from day-one.
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https://slick.plus/
External link for Slick+
- Industry
- Technology, Information and Internet
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Sligo
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2023
- Specialties
- knowledge management, knowledge diffusion, hybridworking, flexible workplace, video communications, knowledge leakage, silo-busting, and internal communications
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Sligo, IE
Employees at Slick+
Updates
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Thrilled to be featured in the latest edition of the Business Post Ireland's premier business weekly. Growth continues at Slick+ as we transform knowledge sharing in organizations while fostering greater human connection in the workplace. "Your not just learning from co-workers. You're getting to know them" says Paul Conneally our CEO who goes on to compare Slick+ to "a family cookbook for the workplace". Big shout out to Enterprise Ireland for their invaluable support. 📖 Read the full story: https://shorturl.at/BVzSF
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Why social learning matters in the modern workplace? Organisations today face growing challenges in staying agile, innovative, and connected. In this fast-changing landscape, social learning isn’t just a tool—it’s a strategic necessity. In an exclusive interview with Slick+, Beverly Wenger-Trayner and Etienne Wenger-Trayner, renowned thought leaders in social learning and pioneers of "communities of practice," share insights on why HR leaders must embrace these strategies to future-proof their organizations. 📖 Explore the full article: https://shorturl.at/Gta1m #SocialLearning #HR #KnowledgeSharing #LearningDevelopment
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Are you measuring onboarding success the right way? While most organizations track completion rates, effective onboarding goes beyond basic metrics. It's about how well new hires integrate, engage, and drive real impact in your organization, especially in remote & hybrid teams. 👉 Swipe through our carousel to discover 6 essential KPIs every L&D and HR leader must know to measure real onboarding success. #OnboardingSuccess #LMS #LearningDevelopment #KnowledgeSharing
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Tacit vs. Explicit Knowledge: See the Key Differences 👇 Are you losing your team’s most valuable knowledge without realizing it? When employees leave, they often take their tacit knowledge with them. This includes years of experience, intuition, and expertise, creating gaps that explicit knowledge alone cannot fill. In our latest blog, we cover: ⚡ The key differences between tacit and explicit knowledge, and how to preserve tacit expertise before it is lost 📚 The role of explicit knowledge in modern organisation 🎯 Practical strategies to balance both for driving innovation and growth Read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/ddP5Fmuh #KnowledgeManagement #EmployeeRetention #TacitKnowlege
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💡Interesting to see the recent debates around return-to-office at JPMorgan and WPP. The high engagement on posts about this topic shows it's hitting a nerve - from parents and caregivers to long-distance commuters, the desire for flexibility cuts across all employee groups. As we navigate the #futureofwork, it's clear that adaptable work models aren't just a pandemic holdover, but a key factor in attracting and retaining talent. What's your take on balancing organizational and employee needs in hybrid work?
Co-founder & CEO of Slick+💥People then Tech afficionado 💥 Loves Culture, Innovation, Leadership & SaaS 💥 TED Speaker
🔊The media sure loves covering when companies order employees back to the office. 💥Few of them are providing balanced coverage however. The return-to-office (RTO) mandates are undoubtedly causing friction between employers and employees. ‼️Recent moves by companies like JPMorgan Chase and WPP to increase in-office requirements have sparked significant backlash (see here: https://lnkd.in/eWktyT86) 🚫 At JP Morgan employees voiced frustration over a strict five-day RTO policy, calling it "paternalistic" and lamenting the sudden shift. Similarly, WPP staff expressed concerns that a four-day in-office mandate risks undermining work-life balance without evidence of boosting productivity. Parents and female employees were particularly vocal in opposition to the move. 💡These reactions highlight a broader challenge: balancing organizational goals with employee needs for flexibility. In a new joint study from the Universities of Pittsburg and Hong Kong, tracking over 3 million tech and finance workers,’ they analyzed the effect of S&P 500 firms’ return-to-office (RTO) mandates on employee turnover and hiring and the results are telling, including: ⚡Employee turnover rates increased by 14% on average after RTO mandates. 📌Female employees were nearly three times more likely to leave compared to male employees due to higher family responsibilities and the need for flexibility. 📌The impact was particularly pronounced among employees with high skill levels, indicating a loss of critical talent. Mid-level and top-level managers showed significantly higher turnover rates. ⚡Impact on Hiring: Firms experienced a 23% increase in the time required to fill vacancies. Hiring rates dropped by 17%, demonstrating real challenges in attracting new talent under RTO policies. ⚡Erosion of Trust: Many employees cited broken promises of remote work flexibility as a key reason for dissatisfaction or quitting. The need to commute added hours to employees' days, diminishing work-life balance. 📌Firms enforcing RTO mandates faced difficulty retaining and attracting top-tier talent, leading to higher costs and potential disruptions in operations and innovation. The loss of key personnel negatively impacts productivity, collaboration, and organizational morale. 🤞🏼I look forward to more informed coverage about how RTO has a disproportionate impact on female employees, the steep costs of rehiring and brain drains, and what it says about outmoded management practices. ➕Let's look also at how social workplace tech exists to create a more positive and flexible modern workplace and enable more human, collegial connections. ❓what are your thoughts on this debate?
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#HappyFriday indeed! 🥳 This was such a fantastic way to wrap up the final weeks of 2024 together with the great team at Advancing Innovation in Manufacturing (AIM) Centre in their state of the art venue in Sligo! 💡 We were so lucky to be able to gather such an amazing community of attendees and speakers from all over the country and have such incredibly rich discussions, presentations and exchanges. 🚀 Over the next weeks at Slick+ we'll be sharing some of the key outcomes and recommendations in the form of actionable checklists and playbooks for organisations who want to cultivate a transformative knowledge-sharing culture and provide an incredible #employeeexperience into the bargain! #OnwardsandUpwards! 🙏🏼 #ShoutOut to our great partners who helped make this happen: Data2Sustain Western Development Commission Atlantic Technological University LEO Sligo Skillnet Ireland #worksmart #learninganddevelopment #knowledgemanagement #hybrid
🌟 A Look Back at One of Our Biggest Successes of 2024! 🌟 Towards the end of 2024, we proudly hosted our largest event to date - the inaugural #SocialLearningSummit in collaboration with Slick+. 🏢 The full-day building takeover brought together brilliant minds through break-out groups, engaging panel discussions, and unforgettable key speakers that truly showcased the power of social learning. 🎥 Watch the highlights video now to relive the excitement or see what you missed! 📅 If you’re interested in hosting your next event in our dynamic and inspiring space, we’d love to hear from you. We cater for all events - big or small, so check out our offerings today: https://bit.ly/3Ah0pJm #AIMCentre #SocialLearningSummit #EventSpace #DynamicEvents #SlickPlus #LearningAndDevelopment #FutureOfWork #Innovation #HybridWork #SocialLearningSummit #Sligo #Ireland
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Onboarding isn’t broken. But for hybrid and remote teams, the rules have changed. Traditional onboarding often misses the mark for today’s work environments: ❌ Disconnected new hires without face-to-face interactions. ❌ Hours wasted searching scattered resources. ❌ 1/3 of hires leave due to poor cultural integration. These challenges are real but they’re solvable. 👉 Swipe to discover 3 proven tactics to transform onboarding with Slick+ 📌 Book a demo today: slick.plus/book-a-demo #Onboarding #EmployeeExperience #HybridTeams
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✨ What a year it’s been! ✨ Wrapping up 2024, we’re reflecting on a year filled with progress, meaningful partnerships, and milestones that have propelled Slick+ forward. One of our proudest moments? Organizing our first #SocialLearningSummit this November! Bringing together top L&D, HR professionals, and 💼 C-level leaders, we tackled the biggest challenges of hybrid work and explored the future of work. A huge thanks to: 🎤 Our inspiring speakers and facilitators. 👥 Everyone who attended and contributed so much 🧩 Advancing Innovation in Manufacturing (AIM) Centre an invaluable and trusted partner. 🤝 Our amazing sponsors: LEO Sligo, Sligo Chamber of Commerce, Western Development Commission, Data2Sustain, and Atlantic Technological University. 🎄 Wishing you a joyful Christmas and a bright 2025 from all of us at Slick+! We’re excited to continue shaping the future work together in the year ahead. #FutureOfWork #HybridWork #RemoteWork #HumanResources
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Is your team stuck in endless meetings and struggling across time zones? Real-time communication isn’t always the answer. Asynchronous collaboration unlocks: ✅ More flexibility for your team. ✅ Better focus on deep work. ✅ Improved work-life balance. Swipe to learn: 🔹 What asynchronous communication really is. 🔹 Who benefits from it. 🔹 4 tools that make async collaboration a breeze. Ready to transform the way your team collaborates? 👉 Explore Slick+: slick.plus/book-a-demo #HybridWork #FutureOfWork #ProductivityTips #RemoteTeams