Guest post by: Chip Midnight, Producer, Studio Manager at Nationwide I’m often asked, “How do you get leaders to agree to do a live broadcast?” to which I respond with a question of my own: “How can you afford not to?” In our current corporate culture, employees have more trust in leaders who are open,
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Joining us at 2019’s Storytelling & Content Strategies for Internal Communications Conference are over 20 prominent communicators who will be leading interactive workshops and engaging sessions over the 3-day event. A few of them sat down with us to answer some questions on why they are passionate about communications and the benefit to employing storytelling
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Jennie Bledsoe is the Director of Internal and HR Communications at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and she will be joining ALI as a speaker at the 6th Annual Strategic Internal Communications conference, July 23-25 in Boston. Bledsoe sat down with us to answer a few questions on what’s new in internal communications. Can you
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ALI Conferences hosted the Strategic Internal Communications to Engage Deskless Employees conference on April 30 – May 2, 2019 at the beautiful Mid America Club in downtown Chicago. Over 30 Internal Communication professionals attended this conference, including speakers from PetCo; Rollins, Inc.; Deloitte; Fortune Brands; U-Haul and more. Attendees overall enjoyed the interactive workshops and
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Creating inspiring and impactful internal communication that connects with your audience does not happen by accident or chance. Careful thought and strategy need to go into the creation of compelling communication that yields business results and desired outcomes. Surely that is stating the obvious. But is that what really happens in most organizations? Are we
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Written by Cindy Crescenzo, CrescenzoCommunications.com. The good news about being a communicator is that there are so many ways to collect all kinds of data these days. The bad news … if you collect it, you’ve got to do something with it. Often times, we end up with that sinking feeling and we say to
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Written by Amir Ameri, Beekeeper. Though today’s consumer digital communications tools are designed to be the ultimate data mines, businesses can’t afford to take data security risks when it comes to internal communications. With personal data being an increasingly profitable commodity, the tracking of online activity is occurring on an unprecedented level. In this context,
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Written by Mike Hatcliffe, RockDove Solutions. Brands exist in what some describe as the ‘Age of Doubt’. Brand emergencies have increased in frequency. Crises occur more often. The escalation from troublesome issue to major threat evolves more quickly than ever. The new uncertain world for brands is explored by Brian Kelly, an experienced former CMO
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Written by Mike Hattcliffe, RockDove Solutions. Thanks to the Wall Street Journal, we got a fascinating glimpse of the behind the scenes response at Southwest Airlines in the immediate aftermath of the terrifying and tragic incident on April 17th, 2018 when an engine failed causing the death of a female passenger and endangering the lives of
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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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