Here’s a thought experiment for you. Imagine your manager gives you a piece of paper and says, ‘I’d like you to write down an honest opinion you hold of me. It can be anything you like. I’m going to put it in a hat with all your colleagues’ feedback, and pick them out at random,
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By Gregg Apirian, Managing Director at Vignette, a full-service employee experience agency. A little over a year ago I wrote and published an article on Vignette’s blog called Strategy vs. Tactics: Why It’s Important to Distinguish the Difference. To date, it has been one of our most popular posts, read by thousands of HR & communications
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Written by Stacy Wilson of Eloquor Consulting Several years ago Gartner published its “8 building blocks of a digital workplace.” Just last week, Information Age republished them in an article, as if it’s new news. For those who don’t want to go read the old post, those 8 originally read as (all relative to the
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Written by Lindsay Ridgley I recently had the opportunity to attend the Advanced Learning Institute’s Strategic Internal Communications Conference in Boston, MA. The takeaways were as hot as the 40 degree weather (what’s that in Fahrenheit?) so here are my top three: 1. Flash focus groups are so fetch We’ve held focus groups before, typically
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By Hannah Beasley, Non-Desk Matters. A few years ago, I visited a manufacturing plant that was just over a year old. In a historically difficult industry, the leadership at this plant wanted to implement new and innovative strategies for increasing productivity and improving the culture. Older facilities producing similar outputs had struggled for decades with
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By Lise Michaud, Founder of IC Kollectif The internal communication profession faces turbulent times and the role of IC practitioners may well be at a turning point. Caught between multiple increasing challenges brought about by the impact of technology, the convergence and integration of communication disciplines and over-riding agendas like employee engagement and advocacy, the
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By Cathy Yum, Workplace by Facebook. Workplace makes it easy to share news and updates across your organization and get people to engage in meaningful ways. Try these internal communication best practices that have proven useful for many Workplace communities. Build company culture Live video is a personal and authentic way for your leaders to
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By Paul Barton, ABC, Principal Consultant, Paul Barton Communications, LLC. How do you communicate with employees in the field? That’s been the million-dollar question for many years for internal communication professionals. But advances in mobile technology are making this challenge a thing of the past. Charlie Gilbert One company that has embraced mobile communication technology
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By Richard Regan, GovLoop. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development defines employee voice as the means by which employees communicate their views on employment and organizational matters to their leadership. It is the most direct and effective way to ensure the grassroots part of the organization has just as must say in the organization
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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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