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How Should You Gauge Employee Engagement?

Very often employee engagement is measured by surveys that ‘ask’ staff about how they feel about their commitment in their respective organizations. What they fail to do is to gauge what employees actually ‘do’ or identify parameters that directly impact behavior. Also, employee engagement is considered an organization’s imperative while in reality it is a two-way […]

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How can Internal Communications Help Establish a ‘Follow-Up’ Free Culture?

Yes, you heard it right – a ‘follow-up’ free culture! I not sure about you but I have certainly encountered cultures in organizations that work only if you ‘chase’ people to do what they are supposed to do or even share basic information that advances the firm’s interest. Recently, an internal communicator mailed me a […]

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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 […]

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Practitioners Raise Their Game at Internal Communications 201 Workshop at Bangalore

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, […]