Tag: india internal comms

I loved Lisa’s response to my post on managers and culture and honestly couldn’t have summarized it like her. Very pragmatic and direct. It is well documented that managers influence work climate and success and is it also known that staff leave organizations due to their managers. Nothing can save an organization that looks the […]

The Internal Communications 201 Workshop held on July 7 at Bangalore had participants from leading organizations and emerging consultants engage in wide ranging discussions to raise their game and build a shared future for this growing function. Simply Communicate carries a complete report of this workshop on their site. Practitioners from companies such as HCL, Philips, […]

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 […]

I blogged about teams wanting ‘internal visibility’ a while ago.  Often requests for internal branding do come to internal communicators and unless you tread carefully these requests can snowball into an unmanageable mess. Rita, the internal communicator got into one such situation and this blog post seeks solutions to help her mitigate the crisis.  Here […]

I came across an interesting question on Linkedin by a communication professional in the Russian Federation seeking inputs on how ‘internal communications affects business results (in terms of money)’. He goes on to explain his situation – “IC is a new function in our company. I need to prove expenses to Board Members. I understand […]

Internal communicators may be involved directly or indirectly in organizing and communicating internal leadership forums that connect and energize  the community. It is a crucial activity since a lot hinges on how well the leadership team converge ideas, coalesces as a group and moves the company agenda forward. These forums are coined different names at […]

Adding a new person to your Internal Communications Team?  Integrating a new member right helps the individual and your team put their best feet forward. I have been inducted into a few organizations and noticed that those teams which invest less time to integrate newcomers often end up alienating people in the long run.  Very often […]

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) […]

A participant at the recently concluded internal communications workshop I ran in Bangalore, India highlighted a common concern that professionals in the industry face but rarely discuss. She said she felt like a ‘dakiya’ – (Hindi for postman) at her workplace. This conversation became a passionate discussion among many in the room and I realized […]

It seems the case study model of blogging is valued by my readers and therefore I am inviting you to reflect and share perspective on the next issue of social media adoption for internal communication. Over the last few weeks I have had three separate conversations with leading communicators from global and Indian organizations on […]