Givitas

A knowledge sharing tool that enables you to ask for and offer help!

Givitas is designed to make it easy and efficient for you to ask for and give help in less than five minutes a day. Givitas gives you equal access to the collective intelligence and expertise of leaders and peers in a way that is easy, safe, fast, and productive.

This is an enterprise app that requires an existing Givitas account (contact sales@giveandtakeinc.com if you want to learn more about enterprise accounts).

Academic research has proven that when people connect to exchange help, their happiness, health, satisfaction, loyalty, and engagement all improve.



Givitas Features and Benefits

• Ask for help, provide help, search a repository of institutional knowledge, collaborate, and connect in less than 5 minute a day.

• Asking for help is incredibly easy, reducing stigmas and barriers, and you don’t have to know who to ask.

• You can customize notifications to come via email, SMS, or other channels so that you don’t have to check Givitas to know whether there is a need. If you don’t come to Givitas, we will come to you!

• Givitas helps you ask questions in ways that increase the likelihood of getting help
• Givitas creates and records organizational memory developing a valuable corporate asset.

Here are some ideas for what to ask for:

• Help on a project

• Advice

• Experience

• Connections

• Introductions

• Ideas

• Brainstorms

• Resources

Examples

By fostering a giving culture, organizations of all sizes drive positive outcomes like increased connection, gratitude, generosity, efficiency, productivity, retention, and engagement.

An online application of the popular Reciprocity Ring, Givitas’ proprietary technology is based on the principles of generalized reciprocity popularized inAdam Grant’s bestselling business book, Give and Take and in the work of Wayne Baker at the University of Michigan.