It is that time of the year when most organizations look to celebrate their successes and engage staff in year-end parties and communication. It is also that time of the year when internal communicators are hard pressed to deliver high quality content and communication even as work winds down! However, in the frenzy to get […]
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Balancing An Organization’s Oversight and Staffs' Personal Conduct
When and how must organizations intervene on personal matters that concern their staff? What if the issue is national and international news? How can internal communications help overcome unanswered questions? The recent jailing of an Indian couple in Norway has opened up questions about ‘personal conduct’ and an organization’s oversight on their staffs’ personal lives. […]
Why Can’t My Staff See What I am Seeing?
Getting staff aligned on strategy and where the company is headed isn’t a cakewalk as leaders realize today. Vinod, 55, a seasoned leader and CEO of Value Ltd discovered during the ‘All Hands’ he ran across his offices in the country. Value Ltd, in the business of supplying gar boxes to leading automobile manufacturers in […]
Communicating Strikes and Office Outages Successfully
As organizations came to grips with the most recent strike that paralyzed the country this week I noticed an innocuous post on a Linkedin community from a fellow communicator asking peers if they planned to shut shop, run operations or mitigate risks. I found that post interesting since it came up on the evening before […]
The mailer’s design sucks. We want something funky!
As an internal communicator is can be difficult dealing with clients who believe that cool design wins over compelling content. Indu, the hard working internal communicator of TPR Bank discovered much to her chagrin. Pramod, the HR Head needed a campaign to get staff aligned on the recent office move and he believed that a […]
“My Team Isn’t Getting Visibility. Let us do a Newsletter!”
Tanmay, the Internal Communicator is facing a dilemma. Anita, the IT Division Head invited him for a discussion to build visibility for her team with a newsletter and it stumped him. If he agreed to her request it would trigger similar requests from other internal teams. If he disregarded the request he will be perceived […]
Improving Your Internal Communication Recognition Programming With Metrics
Like many of you, earlier this year, I received an e-mail from Linkedin’s co-founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman that thanked me for supporting the organization’s growth as an ‘early adopter’. It did read like any other e-mail but the purpose and opportunity that it offered for recognition programming (often an integral part of internal communications) […]