How can an employer tell if their office has a healthy and happy company culture? We’ve got some ideas. People want to work there. You are constantly receiving LinkedIn messages and emails asking about open positions. Word travels fast. Your current employees are your best recruiters. Your employees are happy. Look around. Do people seem
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I recently gave a keynote at a large company’s regional meeting. As with most organizations, I noticed before my arrival and during my time with this company that there was a deeply rooted culture of “small talk” questions: How are you? What do you do? How was your weekend? Where are you from? First, I
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Written by Kyla Sims, bananatag. State of the Sector and other reports that have come out this year have shown that communicators, in vast numbers, don’t have a plan. Why? Well, there are a few, completely understandable reasons why you are struggling to get your comms planned out in advance. And we totally get it.
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To be best-in-class we must think about standard operating procedures. That’s one of the commonalities we see with our clients who are taking a lead globally in the communications arena. The best place to start is to have a common messaging methodology, which allows staff to be more efficient and deliver a better work product.
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Written by Rachel Miller, AllThingsIC. Much like fabled unicorn tales, you’ll hear many myths and untruths surrounding internal communication. They reflect the reality of working as an internal communicator today. Today I have a visual treat to share with you thanks to the super team over at Alive With Ideas. They took my Eight Internal
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You’ve seen the acronym, SMART for communication objectives, right? It’s not so much a demand as it is a guide, a how-to for creating a good objective. It’s also how you set the stage for effective measurement in communications, and in pretty much every other endeavor. The key is to have a clear idea of
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You’ve experienced this before: You subscribe to your favorite store’s email and get a message that features the greatest pair of shoes you’ve ever seen. You click the link that leads you to their website. Then, you see the price tag and think, “The shoes are great, but not that great.”Over the next couple of
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Effective internal communication can improve an organization and drive business success by turning strategy into action. Yet too often, executives measure communication through emails sent or town halls hosted rather than by the one metric that truly matters—how well key leaders and their employees understand and have acted on what’s communicated. Clearly, there’s a real
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A step-by-step guide for selecting the best modern employee intranet solution for your organization Download the full PDF Although employee intranets have been around since the nineties, they are experiencing a renaissance. With the advances in technology that enable increased employee engagement, connectivity and productivity, today’s modern intranets are nothing like the early versions of
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New research shows that only 19% of employees globally think their employee experience and image of their company matches up with the external brand image. According to a report by Weber Shandwick, the global public relations firm, less than a fifth of employees feels there is strong alignment between their employer’s external image and the
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