How often do you come across a client who acknowledges the ‘importance’ and ‘relevance’ of internal communications but just doesn’t want to follow the process? Nabil, the internal communicator with Quiotic Retail was at a loss to get his client to explain what he wanted to achieve. He had recently created a briefing template that […]
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Own Your Internal Communications Growth and Future
It is interesting to note that while a few readers had opinions about this post they preferred writing back to my e-mail ID with their thoughts instead of sharing it on my blog. When I probed, one reader felt he ‘wasn’t an expert’ and therefore didn’t want his thoughts viewed online. Culture playing a role […]
Register Now! Internal Communications 201 – Driving Change and Elevating Your Presence | July 7, 2012
Book Your Seat Today! Presenting a full-day, hands-on workshop: Internal Communications 201 – Driving Change and Elevating Your Presence on July 7, 2012 at Bangalore. This is a follow-up to the Internal Communications 101 workshop held last year. Interested in elevating your internal communications team’s presence? Struggling with managing change in your initiatives? Unable to get your […]
Sharing India with the world
Aware and Connected. This is exactly how I felt earlier this month as I shared perspectives on social media and internal communication from India with a set of global communicators who attended my session at the 2011 World International Association of Business Communicatiors Conference held at San Diego, US. The IABC World Conference brings 1,400 […]
Coaching Your Internal Communication Team to Success
There is a myth that in order for coaching to be a success it should be only handled by leaders, it requires a certification and also it expects staff to be receptive. I beg to differ. As communication professionals we have a responsibility not just to grow ourselves but to also grow the function and […]
Tapping Internal Talent for Internal Communication
Are you maximizing your employees’ potential? Do you know how to reduce your dependency on communication agencies? Working on a leaner budget and want to spend it wisely? Most often internal communicators view staff as recipients of messages. By making them a part of the communication creation and publishing process we bring in a completely […]
Thinking of a Career in Internal Communications?
I wanted to pen down my thoughts on the evolving internal communications function based on numerous queries that have come my way from students, practicing professionals and educationists. This post also articulates the role of the internal communicator, key skills and competencies needed to excel in this field and the various career opportunities that exist. Internal […]
Best Companies to Work in India Study – New Approach, Different Perspectives
The Business Today -Indicus-People Strong Survey is out (February 7, 2010) and the top names sound familiar. Infosys ranks numero uno followed by Google. TCS, Microsoft also feature in the list. Noteworthy names missing are NetApps, Adobe, Cisco, Intel and HCL who were ranked highly in other studies last year. With an all new methodology […]
Communicators as Coaches to Build Your Organization’s Culture
“Coaching is for professionals”, “I am not qualified to coach”, “So much work – who has the time to coach?”, “I rather tell my team what to do rather than do this time consuming coaching bit”. Heard these before? Sounds familiar? The Times of India Ascent (September 2, 2009) front page story on mentorship and […]
Is there a common understanding in India of what corporate communications really does?
The Education Times edition of the Times of India dated May 11, 2009 carried an article on Corporate Communications and its role by taking the viewpoint of leading Indian practitioners. Interestingly, there wasn’t a consensus among these leading professionals on what constitutes corporate communication leave alone the roles and responsibilities of the function. The benefits […]