There were a couple of interesting comments to my last post – ‘let us do a campaign to energize our staff’.  Anindita points to keeping the audience front and center of the campaign while Collin believes that a campaign can’t solve this issue although tweaking the approach might work. Thank you for taking time to […]
Tag: communications
‘Zero E-mail’ and Change Management: An Internal Communication Opportunity?
There are reports of Atos, a French organization planning to do away with e-mail in the near future. That near future is around the corner. The CEO has stated that after 2014 none of their 80000 employees will be exchanging e-mails. Ambitious? Crazy? Impossible? Intriguing? I have been thinking about what this change means for […]
Making Your Internal Communication New Hire’s Integration Easy
Adding a new person to your Internal Communications Team?  Integrating a new member right helps the individual and your team put their best feet forward. I have been inducted into a few organizations and noticed that those teams which invest less time to integrate newcomers often end up alienating people in the long run. Very often […]
What’s your Internal Communication Measurement Mantra?
If you followed the recently concluded cricket World Cup 2011 tournament which India won the statistics shared on TV may have overwhelmed you. The amount of data crunching that cricket historians did ranged from the mind boggling to the inane. While I was able to comprehend and understand how cricketers’ batting and bowling metrics can […]
Interviewing for an Internal Communication Role and Tips to Get Your Job
This week I have been interviewing communicators for an internal communication role. I wanted to pen down my impressions from talking to a set of talented people, share do’s and don’ts and what I look for when it comes to hiring someone for a communications job. These ideas and recommendations I believe can apply for […]
Grassroot’ Employee Engagement Way Forward For Organizations
Over the last few months I have observed closely as employees took ownership to drive various engagement initiatives across the organization I work in. Unlike other organizations where dedicated teams are assigned to create a fun place, employees here leverage their ‘collective wisdom’ to uplift the mood in the offices. What started as a ‘community […]