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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A new study released at the Engage16 annual workforce communications conference last week revealed that 2 out of 3 corporations are investing in employee communications technology. What took them so long? Every CIO and internal communications professional we speak with complain that getting employees to read internal communications has been extremely difficult for a number of years. Studies
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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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At ALI’s recent Strategic Internal Communications Conference in San Francisco, we tackled one of the greatest challenges facing companies today – how to create an outstanding experience from the very first moment employees connect with your company. Here were our challenges: #1: The Job Hunt How can we communicate our unique employee experience in a
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Like 80s pop star Rick Astley, internal comms campaigns can often be one hit wonders. They launch with a big bang, everyone loves it, and they reminisce about it for years to come. Which is great. But wouldn’t it be better if they were less Rick and more Madonna? Able to evolve, stay relevant and
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