Internal branding

Happy New Year to you! As we step into the New Year I wanted to share my perspectives on internal communication trends that I believe will shape the future of businesses and contribute to increased employee engagement.  Talent management and retention will draw even more on the power of internal communication: Attrition is looming as […]

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 […]

The world is gripped by the ‘drip-drip-drip’ of cable internal communication shared by Wikileaks through their website. Apart from gauging the impact to international relations and politics these candid revelations also put the focus firmly on the power of transparency in internal communication. Interestingly, the India diplomatic corps have looked at the positive side of […]

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 […]

Is your internal communication clogging staff’s mailboxes? Do your stakeholders engage intently with their communication to reduce flab? Are your efforts in sharing ‘bite’ size chunks of information adding up? If you have ever been tempted to share more information so that your team ‘gets’ all they need or of passing on content without including […]

With the dust settling after the successful completion of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games many organizations in India are either heaving a sigh of relief or are simply delighted not just because we came second in the ranking but also since their business operations ran smoothly. I can relate to the event and how we kept […]

I have been following the Chile miners rescue very closely and felt there were many lessons to learn from how the entire program was executed and communicated. To begin, it was one of the world’s most successful operations to get miners out from the longest underground entrapment in history. The meticulous planning, the pace at […]

Four unrelated events triggered this post. To begin, I had the opportunity to watch Pay It Forward, a Kevin Spacey-Helen Hunt – Haley Osment that introduces a concept that believes in the goodness of people while expecting nothing in return. A class assignment that challenged students to ‘change the world’ through an idea got Trevor […]

Never before has the challenge of keeping our younger staff engaged greater that now. According to recent reports the population of India will be much younger than China’s in 2050. With more young people being part of its workforce (median age of 25), India is expected to enjoy a huge economic advantage. A recent study […]

“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 […]