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Collaboration also demands a corporate culture that values client results over departmental efficiency or independent virtuosity. It demands a culture that rewards learning through failure and encourages people to go outside their comfort zones. This is more than most companies are willing to do. Yet experience teaches us when individuals do not have to worry about making themselves look good, they are able to concentrate on delivering meaningful and memorable brand experiences.

Here are just a few reasons we're super excited to be a part of YamJam '12 . Check out these tweets from the #yamjam12 tweet chat this morning. Some amazing knowledge was dropped that clearly represents Yammer and their vision for the future of work.  Way awesome. 

Transparency also fosters accountability. "If you're going to walk around with your shirt off, you'll probably do more sit-ups." #yamjam12

— Adam Pisoni (@yammeradam)

It is more than a company being social, it is about a fundamental shift in the way we lead employees to the next level. #YamJam12

— Miguel Zlot (@SocialLube)

Collaboration is what makes @yammer successful it’s about taking the users feedback and developing a product around that feedback #yamjam12

— Tommy Marchionda (@Tommmy_29) 

MyPOV: look for technology solutions that blend the best aspects of consumerization w/ enterprise class requirements #yamjam12

— R Ray Wang (@rwang0) 

I'm not a fan of the terms open vs. closed or silo'd vs. transparent. I prefer to think about content/people in the right context. #yamjam12

The world’s first Social Performance Management platform to demonstrate product innovation across Social Performance invites attendees to experience the power of team effectiveness and social collaboration.

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Yeah.

As the dust settles on the HR Technology Conference, the big takeaway is clear:

Social Performance is transformative.

Recognizing this paradigm shift, Human Capital Management (HCM) vendors are either incorporating or plan to incorporate social elements into their products. There are many different approaches to the social shift—and it’s still early in the revolution—but Social HCM is a concept that’s gaining fast momentum.

Dozens of volunteers took part in what they thought was an investigation into creativity. Half the study participants were given false feedback on a test of their creative potential, with their results inflated to suggest that they'd excelled. In advance of the main challenge – a series of creative insight problems – some of the participants were then taught mental contrasting: writing about how good it would feel to smash the problems, and then writing about the likely obstacles to achieving that feat, such as daydreaming.

The best performers on the insight problems were those participants who'd received the positive feedback about their potential and who'd performed mental contrasting. They out-classed their peers who'd received inflated feedback but only indulged in positive thoughts, and they outperformed those participants who'd received negative feedback (regardless of whether they, too, performed mental contrasting).

So, the next time you receive some positive feedback, don't lose your focus. Indulge yourself a little – you're on track after all – but also take time to think about the obstacles that remain, and the practical steps you'll need to enact to overcome them. The mental contrasting technique guards against complacency, ensuring the boost of your early win is multiplied into long-term success.