Day 22: How Co-op communicates with offline employees
How can you reach offline employees and ensure your company’s communication efforts are open and accessible to all? This week Co-op joined the likes of Tesco, Asda, Heineken, National Grid and Royal Mail in providing an online site for their employees to access publicly, with the launch of coop.co.uk/colleagues. (Hmm… it’s ironic we call the employees offline, […]
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Day 21: Things I wish I’d known…
What do you wish you’d known about working in internal communication before you started? What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learnt in your career? It’s never too late to adjust your thinking, learn from mistakes, try something new and experiment. Today’s guest post as part of my Countdown to Christmas reflects on a senior career in IC […]
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Day 20: The times they are a changin’
It seems the only thing guaranteed in business nowadays is change. Change to attract new talent. Change to retain it. Change to keep up with competition. Change to stay ahead. Today’s Countdown to Christmas guest article was written by Laura James (pictured). With eight years’ experience in internal comms, she’s worked in a number of industries […]
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Day 19: Free #PR2017 insights and trends guide
What will be the key trends, issues and opportunities impacting internal communication in 2017? Alas, the illusive comms crystal ball hasn’t been created. Yet. However, today’s Countdown to Christmas features #PR2017 – a new free 25-page guide from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). It’s packed with insight from 20 CIPR regional, national and sector […]
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Day 17 and 18: How not to run a conference
Employee conferences can be a fantastic way to get your workforce motivated, inspired and ready to help your organisation achieve its goals. Or they can be a cringe-worthy attempt at enforced fun, death by PowerPoint and achingly painful to witness. How do you do yours? Today’s Countdown to Christmas article focuses on all things conference related. […]
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Day 16: Test your IC digital maturity
The commsbots are here. Stay tuned for more info to discover your IC digital maturity and how to create your own comms bot. At The Big Yak unconference in September, I caught up with my super smart friend Tony Stewart, (pictured) Head of Digital at Scarlettabbott. During the buzz of the day he gave me […]
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Day 14: How to use Yammer for Business Continuity Planning
Picture the scene: high summer, after a month of false starts and grey skies, finally reaches Oxford. With the temperature outside reaching 28°C, the air conditioning unit in a main server room fails. What do you do? That’s the situation Oxford University Press faced earlier this year. I’m republishing it today as part of my Countdown […]
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Day 13: Taking internal comms out of its comfort zone
What channels do you use for your internal communication? Is the prospect of internal comms (IC) leaking externally viewed as a risk by your senior stakeholders? Is your internal communications strategy only engaging small pockets of your total employee base? Laura Jameson, (pictured), Director, Internal Communications, Ruder Finn UK is my guest writer for Day […]
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Day 12: Stocking fillers for shoestring communicators
“We don’t have the budget. We don’t have the tools. That software’s blocked by IT. But I can’t do graphic design.” Does this sound familiar? Today I’m delighted to introduce you to professional communicator Andrew Plender @Aplender_comms. He’s worked in organisations where all of these have been “Bah Humbug!” barriers to creativity. It doesn’t have to be that way. […]
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Day 11: Your guide to Christmas comms
How are your Christmas comms going? A few weeks back I published a guide to help you think things through. I’m sharing it today as day 11 of my Advent series to Countdown to Christmas. Search the tag for any you may have missed. So far I’ve covered Workplace (Facebook at Work) at a brewery, […]
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Day 10: How Asda is building an inclusive culture
Following the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), Asda has produced a digital guide featuring colleagues sharing their experiences and advice. This is an excellent idea. We all know the power of peer-to-peer communication, and I think The Asda Pride team has done a fantastic job. They worked with scarlettabbott to produce the […]
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Day 9: When two become one: building a single culture
What do you get when you mix an upside down lion, a beehive and a custom Minecraft game? Well a fairly lively Friday morning for one. And a view into the world of North West housing group Torus. These symbols and mechanisms were all part of an impressive mixed media approach to storytelling by a […]
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