. Solution Overview © 2009 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 1 of 2 Five to Thrive Strategies: Unlock Employee Potential Tough times require communicating clearly and helping employees unlock their potential for creativity and innovation. Capitalizing on employee potential directly affects an organization's ability to retain top talent, as well as improving revenue growth, competitive differentiation, and time to market for new products. Tools and processes that emphasize communication between and among leaders and employees can improve your company’s leadership and make employees more effective, innovative, and motivated. Here are three ways to make that happen. 1. Help employees be more productive and innovative with collaboration tools: Give employees the power to collaborate with each other wherever they are using solutions such as Cisco Mobility, presence, click to call, remote worker, and other collaborative tools. Cisco Accelerates Deal Approval Approximately 40 percent of all customer agreements at Cisco require special approval, and approximately half require human intervention. Because they did not know when agreements had been approved, sales employees had to check their status frequently throughout the day. By enabling real-time collaboration between sales and approvers when a “hold” occurs, Cisco sales teams and channel partners can resolve issues more quickly, thus accelerating revenue recognition. 2. Harness the collaborative power of all employees to maximize effectiveness and efficiency: Cisco collaboration and video solutions enable you and your customers to increase interactions and the availability of experts. Solutions such as Cisco WebEx, WebEx Connect, and Expert On Demand using Cisco TelePresence allow you to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty without increasing resources. Cisco Improves Sales Force Productivity Cisco implemented a Network Enhanced Workspace initiative that combined multiple Cisco Unified Communications solutions to 3,000 Cisco sales employees. Using mobile, video, and collaboration applications, sales people reduced the average time needed to communicate by 65 minutes per day and achieved 17 percent