Building a social media presence and brand expects focus and discipline. It also needs one to think intently about your goals and how you plan to stay relevant to your stakeholders. I recently authored an article on this topic for Social Samosa, a digital media consultancy. Here is a summary: Identify your personal goals and objectives Have […]
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Can Your Organization Do Without Internal Communications?
Do read my guest post  on Rachel Miller’s blog – Dairy of an Internal Communicator and share your thoughts. Interested to hear what you think. Rachel Miller  is a UK based Internal Communication and Social Media strategist and the author of Share This. She tweets at @AllthingsIC.
Does Your Internal Communications Process Document Serve Its Purpose?
Have an internal communications process document or plan to write one for your organization? Here are pointers that may help you create one that meets the needs of your audiences. Recently, an internal communicator reached out for a review of her draft internal communications process document that she created. The draft looked great although I […]
What Will It Take For My Staff To Understand Our ‘Big Picture’?
Every organization, big or small, faces the issue of getting employees to understand, appreciate and align with the vision and goals that will drive profitability and success. However, when the message is pitched very high employees don’t get it. If it is ‘dumbed’ down staff feels like they are treated like kids. Pratap, the go-getting […]
How Can You Communicate Your Survey Results Effectively?
While surveys are one among the popular ways to gauge employee sentiment and feedback how we share the results and findings makes the difference between action and apathy. Very often we get caught up with in getting our surveys to be statistically significant by focusing on participation or persuading leaders to up the number of […]
Think Strategically While Crafting Your Internal Communications Plan
It seems this post on creating an internal communications plan got a lot of great insights which Rony can use. I checked in with Rony and he seemed delighted to see the quality of inputs that came in. For the benefit of readers I am making an attempt to distill the key points that can […]
Nine Expectations of an Internal Communicator – Press Coverage in People Matters
Sharing my article titled ‘9 expectations of an internal communicator’ in People Matters which identifies and elaborates the top fundamentals, which every internal communicator needs to have to be effective in the role. About the publication: ion: People Matters is a leading knowledge and media platform in the Human Resources space. It has a specialized […]
Press coverage in the Pioneer: 'Be a linking tool' Shares Perspectives on a Career in Internal Communications
My opinion article  appeared in the ‘Avenues’ section of The Pioneer (Oct 3, 2012). The article titled ‘Be a linking tool’ explains what is internal communications and how a career in internal communications is not only fulfilling and enriching nowadays apart from being highly sought after. About the Publication : The Pioneer was founded in Allahabad […]
I Have Done all the Internal Communications I Could. Where Do I Go From Here?
I had this interesting question posed today and spoke with the individual to understand the genesis of this thought. Here is the scenario and it may possibly be a situation many internal communicators face at their workplace. This communicator, fresh out of college has completed close to two years with her organization supporting a business […]
Making Your Noticeboards Work Harder For Internal Communications
Many organizations continue using noticeboards (bulletin boards or poster boards or pin-up space as they are called in some companies) as internal communications channels for sharing company news, updates and rollouts. Even with the advent of social media and more sophisticated  internal communication channels  such as plasma screens or touch kiosks  (I know of organizations […]