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1 The Complete ONA Handbook for HR Leaders

2 Introduction Chapter 1: Human Capital Challenges that ONA Addresses Chapter 2: How ONA Helps You Improve Organizational Performance Chapter 3: How to Plan for an ONA Roll-out Chapter 4: Measuring ONA ROI Conclusion

3 What is ONA? INTRODUCTION ONA is much more than a buzzy acronym that s been tossed around the Human Capital and Organizational Development world for the past few years. A kind of Human Capital Analysis, O-N-A stands for Organizational Network Analysis. ONA is a tool for analyzing the informal social networks that exist within an organization (see Figure 1). If an organizational chart provides the theory of how work gets done, the informal social network provides the realworld practice; it illustrates how people work together to solve problems and make decisions in the real world. For example, from the organizational chart on the left in Figure 1, we might conclude that Stern serves in a relatively unimportant position in the organization. The social network on the right, however, paints a very different picture. It shows that Stern is, in fact, a critical player in the organization. He plays a central role in facilitating communication across all three teams. The introduction of web-based tools like SYNAPP makes the power of ONA easy to use and actionable for senior executives and Human Resource leaders to address some of today s most pressing Human Capital challenges. Is it time for your company to look into ONA? The contents of this ebook will help you determine that. Over the next four chapters, we will examine the following topics: Signs your business needs ONA How ONA can improve your organization s performance Things to consider for an ONA roll-out How to maximize the ROI of an ONA investment First up, the 5 signs your business needs ONA.

4 CHAPTER 1: Human Capital Challenges that ONA Addresses You base your workforce planning, leadership development and performance and talent retention programs on the best data available, which typically comes from HRIS tools. These systems capture information related to the formal structure title, tenure, training and performance history, band, etc. As organizations flatten, matrix teams take over, peer collaboration systems gain popularity and strategic partnerships and outsourcing increase, the distance between the formal org. chart and the way people actually get work done is widening. Basing your organization s strategic Human Capital initiatives solely on formal org. chart data hides critical opportunities and perils. The advent of ONA provides a new perspective on your people and teams, and arms you with a new set of actionable data and insight to inform your strategy. Here are some signs it s time to consider adding ONA to gain visibility into your company s informal network: 1. You ve seen the reports - half of all employees are actively looking for other jobs you d like to know which half. 2. You need to significantly improve your leadership pipeline and you re not sure you trust the performance management system, especially when it comes to millennials. You need another way to identify emerging leaders. 3. Successfully implementing major change and other strategic initiatives requires both senior level stakeholder engagement as well as enlisting effective champions throughout the company. How do you identify the best champions, or change advocates, especially in organizations going through transition? 4. Diversity has moved beyond a check box to a recognized source of competitive advantage. You are proud of your diversity hiring and promotion track record and now you need to gauge inclusiveness. 5. Skills like cross-functional collaboration, team-building and innovation are critical to leadership effectiveness and they are very hard to assess with current tools. You want to reward people that exhibit 21st Century leadership skills and target development programs where they are most needed.

5 Chapter 2: How ONA Helps You Improve Organizational Performance 1. Spot rising stars earlier to fill your leadership pipeline. ONA will pinpoint the most influential people in your organization. Some of the names will validate your previous promotion decisions; others may well be your next superstar. In a recent deployment of SYNAPP with a 300-person department of a Fortune 500 technology company, SYNAPP identified the sixteen employees who carried the most weight with their peers call them the top 5% Mover and Shakers. And out of these thirty, a full 4, or 25%, were at the lowest band on their team.

6 Chapter 2: How ONA Helps You Improve Organizational Performance 2. Unwanted staff turnover hurts, with costs estimated to reach 150% of salary. Identify staff at risk of leaving and intervene before it s too late. Employees who are productively engaged with multiple colleagues, enjoy a strong working relationship with their immediate manager and who are plugged into the company s support network are much less likely to look for work elsewhere. ONA provides a powerful lens to understand which employees may present a retention risk. Based on an analysis of social network measures, ONA identifies the employees within your organization at greater risk for leaving. 3. Move mountains by finding and tapping into your company s hidden influencers ONA is a vital way to identify and select change advocates. By x-raying the organization to understand the patterns of communication, network analysis pinpoints the "go to" people in the organization. Often, the identified change advocates are different than the ones leaders would have nominated. This is not surprising since leaders employ a top-down perspective while network analysis goes directly to the source, asking employees who they turn to for advice and guidance.

7 Chapter 2: How ONA Helps You Improve Organizational Performance 4. Fast-forward innovation through inclusion ONA does not replace, but rather compliments, your existing Human Capital Analytics. Based on existing data, you know how well you ve performed against your diversity objectives. What s harder to know, though, is how engaged your minority employees are. ONA will answer this and provide you with actionable insight to ensure that your company takes full advantage of the new ways of thinking and new ideas that a truly engaged and diverse workforce brings. 5. Assess for the skills of tomorrow and build leaders to get you there ONA will not only help individual leaders assess how well they are networked for cross-team collaboration, innovation and execution, it will also show you which teams are best set up to perform against KPIs like discovery of new ideas, engagement and empowerment (See Figure 2). Armed with this new perspective, you can replicate success and target development programs where needed most. Figure 2: Compare Team Effectiveness on KPIs like Discovery, Execution and Engagement

8 Chapter 3: How to Plan for an ONA Roll-out While each situation is unique, your ONA roll-out will consist of at least the following four steps: 1. Set-up 2. Survey 3. Report Delivery 4. (Optional) Workshop From start to finish, you will want to budget at least one month for your ONA roll-out. 1. Set-up The set-up phase is critical for project success and can be broken into the three parts Scoping; Data Collection and Configuration; Initial Communications. 1. Scoping: this is where you define the program objectives and make decisions about who you will involve in the roll-out. 2. Data collection and system configuration: Once you ve determined the scope of the project, the next step is to bring in the relevant personnel data. The system will be set up to ensure privacy and with the appropriate permissions. 3. Initial communication: Once the system is ready to go, you ll want to communicate to the participating teams, and to the team leaders first, a little bit about the program what it is, why you re doing it, what they can expect next, and, of course, what s in it for them!

9 Chapter 3: How to Plan for an ONA Roll-out 2. Survey A short, ten to twelve question web-based survey captures the necessary data to produce the ONA reports. The network nature of ONA requires a high response rate north of 80%. And since there is an inverse correlation between survey length and response rate, it is important to stick to the core questions and refrain from adding nice to haves. Survey questions include: Who do you go to most frequently for help getting work done? Who do you involve when making important decisions? Who increases your energy and enthusiasm at work? In order to achieve the needed response rate, you may wish to send automated messages from the ONA system to non-respondents. Alternatively, these can be sent from leadership. Best practice suggests keeping the survey open for at least two weeks. Once the survey is closed, the ONA system runs the survey responses through a series of algorithms to map your organization s instrumental networks - that is, networks comprised of the people most involved in making decision and solving problems, and affective networks - networks comprised of the people most central to the organization's support and energy systems.

10 Chapter 3: How to Plan for an ONA Roll-out 3. Report Distribution ONA systems differ in terms of the way reports are packaged and distributed. SYNAPP, the Philosophy IB ONA tool, applies business logic about how people, teams and organizations work and then presents two types of reports: 1. Organization reports for leaders compare teams across the following KPIs Idea Discovery, Execution, Engagement, Positivity and Empowerment. The Organization report also identifies employees whose networks position them as key influencers, indicating they could make effective change advocates and or emerging leaders. It also reveals employees who may be at risk of leaving the company due to low engagement and other metrics. 2. Individual reports visualize the network of connections for each employee and provide specific, custom recommendations to strengthen each employee s network to better support KPIs like collaboration, idea discovery, change agency and support. Things to consider during the report distribution step include timing do you want leaders to receive their own individual reports and the organization reports before their teams? In many cases, this is desirable so that team and senior leaders can both strategize how to take advantage of the insights the Organization Report provides and so that they can become familiar with the Individual Report this will make sure they are able to facilitate their teams use of the individual reports.

11 Chapter 3: How to Plan for an ONA Roll-out 4. ONA Facilitated Workshops (Optional) It may make sense to host a facilitated workshop with leaders and/or employees to put the ONA insights into action. Leadership workshops can focus attention on opportunities to engage ONA-identified change advocates across the company in key initiatives; discuss ways to increase collaboration between teams where the ONA roll-out identified limited interaction is occurring; go over engagement strategies to reenlist pockets of talent that ONA identifies as at risk of leaving. Employee and teams facilitation should focus on helping people use their Individual Reports as part of a professional networking action plan (see Figure 3). These facilitated sessions can either be done in person or via online meetings, and will help employees: Think about how well their professional network supports them in their current position and for their career aspirations Consider what they can do to strengthen their network in order to boost their ability to collaborate, discover new ideas and influence others Build an action plan to reach out to specific people to strategically build their network to support their career goals Some clients choose to re-run ONA after they have implemented their action plans. For instance, one leading pharmaceutical client learned through ONA that two teams that needed to work together to effectively bring products to market were failing to collaborate in practice. The leaders of the departments worked well together, but their respective teams were not forming the connections at the working level. Based on the ONA reports, HR and the department heads implemented several cross-department teams to develop specific innovation proposals that the company would pursue. When the client re-ran ONA six months later, it showed a 100% increase in cross-functional collaboration.

12 Chapter 4: Measuring ONA ROI Your business case for ONA will depend on your specific use case. Some common ones include: Does your company have a mandate to increase the number and success rate of new products? Are you looking for a way to reduce unwanted turnover? Do you need to identify hidden movers and shakers across the company? We will highlight here some ways to measure ONA ROI for these three use cases. 1. Increase the number and success rate of new products through online open innovation community After rolling out a new online collaboration system for employees to team up on new ideas, a client was dissatisfied with the uptake of the new system. Only a fraction of the employees were actively using it, and the improvement in quantity and quality of ideas coming out of the system was not meeting targets. In addition, because of the low engagement with the tool, ideas coming out were not complete, requiring more time by line of business managers that inherited the ideas. The client recognized that in order to turn the situation around, they needed much greater engagement by employees. To achieve this, they knew they needed to find the go to people across their diverse business communities the people others turn to for help solving problems and for energy and enthusiasm about work. They needed to find the Champions.

13 Chapter 4: Measuring ONA ROI With a distributed workforce numbering in the tens of thousands, at first the task seemed akin to finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. Then they heard about ONA. To build the case for executives, we partnered with the internal communication team to define the value flow shown in Figure 4. Several open innovation case studies provide the data on what a thriving community can do. Look at P&G s Connect and Develop and one sees a 100% increase in the success rate of new product ideas. Other communities designed to provide peer-to-peer collaboration and support report deflection rates of percent that is, between one and three quarters of the questions that normally would be answered by an FTE are resolved in the community. Embedded Champions that speak the language of their network, and command its respect, provide the critical spark to engage employees. The client anticipates that, once Champions are engaged, the innovation community will produce ideas that require less work to be implemented and deliver more bottom line impact, combining to deliver an estimated 300% ROI on the ONA engagement. Identify and Enlist Hidden Champions Broad Organization Adoption of Innovation Platform Cost Reduction and Improved Hit Rate Produce 300% Expected ROI Figure 4: Finding and Enlisting Champions Sets Online Community on Course for Success

14 Chapter 4: Measuring ONA ROI 2. Reduce unwanted staff turnover Retention and engagement rose to the second most urgent trend in Bersin by Deloitte s Global Human Capital Trends Other research shows that, on average, half of all employees today are actively looking for other jobs. The question on the minds of leaders of course is which half?!? ONA provides a uniquely targeted and actionable way to head unwanted attrition off at the pass. SYNAPP, from Philosophy IB, offers leaders a rare view to the people who may be at greatest risk of leaving your organization. It does this by examining employees degree of connectedness to colleagues overall, how well connected they are to their immediate supervisor and how well connected they are to the company s support network. Based on this, SYNAPP can predict with high accuracy the employees most likely to leave. How do we know, you ask? Because we ran SYNAPP internally at Philosophy IB and 4 of the 5 employees identified as at risk of leaving did indeed leave the organization within 8 months. Calculations of the cost of unwanted attrition range from 50 to 150% of the individual s annual salary. If we split the difference and say it costs 75% and we further assume we re talking about a mid-level manager making $170,000, then losing this single person would cost $127,500. And while your ONA program costs will vary depending on the vendor and technology you select, the cost for SYNAPP is simply $150 times the number of employees participating. With these assumptions, we can create a simple ROI calculator that yields the following break-even: If ONA helps you re-enlist a single at-risk employee who would have otherwise left, saving you $127,500, you break even at a SYNAPP employee participation level of 850 employees (850 employees X $150 = $127,500). Reminding ourselves that, on average, 50% of employees are disengaged and actively seeking employments elsewhere (equating to 425 employees in our example), we are confident that this use case alone will pay for any SYNAPP deployment many times over.

15 Chapter 4: Measuring ONA ROI 3. Identify hidden movers and shakers across the company Perhaps the most common ONA use case for HR leaders, finding hidden influencers, or change advocates, is one of the key functions that line and senior leaders turn to HR for help with. Advances in web technology now make the implementation of ONA much faster, simpler and more costeffective, which means HR can support more of these requests with much shorter turnaround time than in the past. Take a typical major initiative say consolidating multiple legacy systems and processes onto a new procurement system. Research shows that, should you endeavor to undertake this initiative without a robust change management program, the average ROI will be 35%. In contrast, wrap the initiative in a well-planned and executed change program complete with leadership alignment, stakeholder analysis, gap analysis and employee engagement that leverages influencers and the ROI soars to 143%. ONA pinpoints the most strategically placed influencers for you to enlist in your project. This won t ensure the success of the rest of your change effort, but without these key advocates on your side, the initiative is at much greater risk of hitting landmines that slow implementation and increase cost.

16 CONCLUSION: Is Now the Right Time to Tap into ONA? ONA has been around for several years and in the past few, as big data and Internet applications have become more prevalent, it has even turned into a buzzy catchphrase. The important thing for HR leaders to recognize is that ONA can help solve some of the most strategic challenges companies face today. Organizations seeking to fend off unwanted attrition, engage their diverse workforce for improved innovation, better their returns on initiatives that require employees to change the way they work or ground their leadership development programs in an assessment of key skills like cross-functional collaboration should consider adding ONA to their Human Capital Analytic toolkit. Huston, L., & Sakkab, N. (2006). Connect and Develop: Inside Proctor Gamble s New Model for Innovation. Harvard Business Review, March, 1-9 Kling, B. (2012). Lithys 2012: Autodesk Best Community ROI. Lithium Autodesk-Best-Community-ROI/idip/41930 Relative Urgency of Human Capital Trends, Global Human Capital Trends We will happily provide a copy of our SYNAPP Attrition ROI calculator to anyone interested simply send an to info@seeyournetwork.com Change Management That Pays, McKinsey Quarterly, 2002.

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