Have a milestone worth celebrating? Unsure how to get your employees singing the same tune? Every organization big or small has reasons to celebrate important milestones during their journey to energize their staff. Be it the completion of your company’s years of operations, a new product launch, an employee growth success story or even the […]
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Tackling ‘Payback Time’ With Effective Internal Communication
“It is payback time!” said one comment and “never treat professionals as commodities” voiced another as a reaction to the recent independently administered Regus survey which covered 15,000 business respondents from their global contacts database between February and March 2010. Dearth of promotions, lack of communication and involvement in decision making and little or no […]
Reigniting the Culture Conversation – Internal Communications and Storytelling
‘Culture alignment is what makes organizations successful’. This message stuck to my mind like never before! I attended one of the best sessions ever on a topic often considered to be ‘esoteric’ and ‘abstract’ – culture. This post is to share my personal take-aways. Conducted by a senior leader this session had no presentation slides […]
Are You ‘Tunnel Visioning’ Your Employees?
With internal communicators struggling today to reduce information overload and help employees ‘get what they need’ there is a contrarian view at play! That of making information ‘self discovery’ a joy for your staff. This thought was further cemented when I read an argument by a leading educationist fighting against the spread of ‘coaching institutes’ […]
Re-branding of Satyam weighs in on ‘values’ and ‘internal expertise’
Quite interestingly, the re-branding of Satyam as Mahindra Satyam takes cues from ‘within’ – relying heavily on values and inherent strengths. This amplifies the role of internal communication and branding on how employees and external stakeholders perceive the company’s image. Also important to note the emphasis on ‘internal’ attributes which the new entity defines as […]
Insights from a communication stalwart – Mike Green of Intel
At a recent communications gathering in Bangalore last week, I had an opportunity to meet up with Mike Green, who leads employee communications for Intel. A veteran at Intel, he took time off from his short visit to India to talk to communication professionals and share insights from his experience. Mike stressed on the need […]