By Siv Rauv, Elcom’s blog. Back in the early 1990s, many were skeptical about the prospect of email becoming a viable digital communication tool. Some even doubted the influence that the Internet itself would have on business. However, it didn’t take long for both the web and email to move from the fringes to a
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Written by Paul Barton, ABC, Principal Consultant, Paul Barton Communications. I enjoyed copresenting “Shifting Culture and Technology Advances Bring Unique Opportunities” with Kris Pugsley, Global Communications Manager and Change Management, Compliance and Ethics, at ON Semi Conductor at the 7th annual ALI Intranet and Digital Workplace Summit in San Francisco today. It was an honor copresenting with Kris who is
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By Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin, Tribe Inc. First the good news: A recent Forrester report estimates that automation will create about 15 million jobs over the next decade. Now the bad: the same report says it will also eliminate 25 million jobs. It’s reasonable for employees to feel some anxiety about the prospects of automation in
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By Rachel Medanic, Talk Social to Me. In healthcare making a difference for one person has network effects. For SBH Health System (SBH) in the Bronx, New York, implementing a Workplace by Facebook online employee community has produced several benefits for the hospital. In just 4 months the online community has: Made organization-wide communication easier,
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By Hannah Beasley, Red e App. What you call your employees is indicative of how you perceive them, which is an indicator of how you treat them, speak to them, and prioritize them. “It’s not what you look at that matters; it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau When you look at your employees, what do
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By Amanda McClay, Tribe, Inc. Employee experience is getting a lot of attention in the internal communications world lately. One reason may be that we continue to see studies indicating lower employee engagement, which means less motivated employees, lower retention rates and poor company performance. Companies are struggling for an answer and don’t know where
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By Jason Oshita, HospitalPortal.net Hi Everyone, For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Jason, the Client Engagement Manager here at HospitalPortal.net. We typically reserve these blog posts for informational topics with specific content. However, for this blog post, I wanted to do something a little different. Last week, I attended the 6th annual
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Written by Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin, Tribe Inc. Giving visibility to leadership is important. People want to see the faces and know the humans behind the titles at the top of the org chart. But it can be even more powerful to give visibility to the people in the rest of the organization. Unwittingly, internal communications
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By Andreas Slotosch, Beekeeper. Many companies struggle with keeping non-desk employees in the loop and aligned with the organization. They aren’t regularly a part of the company’s internal communication circle. This can turn into a big problem as non-desk workers become less engaged, which results in costly turnover. Thankfully, it’s easier than ever to reach
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Written by Pi Wen Looi, Principal, Novacrea. Our employee survey results consistently show that one of the things employees crave most is acknowledgement and appreciation. The simplest way to acknowledge employees’ contributions is to say thank you, yet this is often overlooked. The following sample employee comments are common feedback we see in our surveys:
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