The Hive

When individual employees are engaged in the workplace, everyone benefits. Studies show that there is a direct relationship between employee commitment and revenue growth. The Hive provides a platform to drive engagement by creating a culture of shared accomplishment.

The Hive is a self-organizing collaborative environment that builds on knowledge and achievement within your organization. The Hive goes beyond short-term incentives and rewards by using a system of peer-to-peer acknowledgment. This powerful application easily integrates with your corporate intranet to help you meet the following objectives:

Increase individual knowledge of activities, functions and tactics within the organization
Foster greater cooperation and knowledge sharing between workgroups
Talent-Spotting: identify Connectors, Mentors and Ambassadors
Extend knowledge across the organization through integration with other PollStream solutions.

Employees are hungry for acknowledgment. The Hive helps you provide real nourishment using a collaborative public forum. The Hive process starts when an employee sends a BeeLine to a co-worker as a "thank-you" for a job well done, a congratulation for a special achievement or to celebrate a milestone in the recipient's career. BeeLines are high quality electronic commendations that vary in tone from warm and thoughtful to witty and enthusiastic.

As a collaborative environment The Hive promotes social equity, meaning praise and acknowledgment isn't confined to top-down communications within corporate and departmental boundaries.

Members connect with others through the Gallery, a collective space for viewing and contributing to all public BeeLines. As members contribute comments to the BeeLines of others, they construct storylines around specific contributions and milestones, building deeper connections to the mission and purpose of the organization.

Cross-Pollinate Your Internal Communications

The emergent properties of The Hive mean that its value increases as you use it in connection with your other communications. Combined with PollStream's Comment Engine the connections established in The Hive act as a powerful reputation system for participants in your online conversations. Visual badges identify contributors as BeeLine recipients. BeeLine badges provide a link to each recipients profile revealing a knowledge base of connections, associations, skills and activities.

The Hive provides managers with a real-time view into the activities, accomplishments and successes of their team. BeeLine reports can be used as supporting documents for employee reviews, team objectives, and regional management goals.