On Friday, July 23 I attended the Great Place To Work Conference at Bangalore and I wanted to share my key take-aways and recommendations that you can take forward within your organizations, irrespective of the industry and size. To begin, best workplaces had nothing to do with size or number of employees. The theme of […]
Tag: DNA
Internal Communicators as the Company’s Historians
About 8 years ago my supervisor at a previous employer handed me a list stating my roles and responsibilities as an internal communication professional. In that, I recollect was a line which read ‘the company’s historian’. Then, as a junior member of a growing communications team it only meant ‘collating and updating’ company news. The […]
Culture Deep Dives and Focus Group Facilitation Ideas
I recently sat in on a focus group session on ‘culture’ that sought employees’ perspectives on the organization’s traits and thoughts on how to retain or strengthen the organization’s DNA. The forums held across the organization are an attempt to gauge the role ‘culture’ plays on engagement and align employees based on an action plan. […]
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 […]