From time to time, we feel the need to put pen to paper. Below is an assortment of thoughts, webinars and events across a range of topics. Hopefully you’ll find them provocative but also useful, to help better inform your future internal communication campaigns.
Here are some of our features in the press for our expert internal communications thinking and where our work has been featured as an example of best practice in employee engagement.
What can businesses and leaders do to improve trust in their organisation to head off grievances and its inevitable negative impact on culture and productivity?
In this climate of uncertainty, honesty is crucial. It’s not about having all the answers; it’s about being clear and transparent about the challenges we’re facing.
Creating a truly effective human firewall requires more than annual training programs or temporary initiatives. We explore the critical role leaders in fostering a cyber secure company culture.
Last year it was reported that there were record numbers of over 50’s in work across the UK. This coupled with the fact women over 50 represent one of the fastest growing segments of the workforce, means there are very few organisations where the menopause is not being experienced by staff.
‘We have to continually learn about where the threats come from. It’s about trying to cyber attack your people as well as the software. It’s about learning together and not finger pointing at any individual’ – Jake Moore
Nearly four years ago, in the height of the first lockdown, we wrote about how the pandemic might just have been one of the best things to happen to employee engagement – where are we now?
By involving more people in EVP creation not only is there a chance that its more likely to be authentic, but also there will be a greater number of people invested in its success, and willing to promote it.
Equality only happens when thinking, planning and execution is made by and for the broadest possible group of people. Genuine equality of opportunity and experience.
You probably know the rumours: purpose matters more than ever before. Gen Zers won’t get out of bed without a purpose, and certainly won’t join an organisation until they see, hear and feel it for themselves.
Missed our latest BG Briefing? Don’t worry. As a little quid-pro-quo, if you tell us a little bit about you, we’ll share the link to the latest recording, and let you know when the next one is.
What’s the single thing communications professionals worry about the most? I’d hazard, impact – if the things they’re producing, sending and socialising are actually making any difference. And with it, measurement – how to quantity and prove that change is actually taking place.
As organisations try to embed hybrid working models at the same time as improve their performance on diversity and inclusion, it’s interesting to consider the extent to which one can enable the other – how hybrid working might support minoritised groups.
Hybrid working is here to stay. But while we’ve solved many of the technological challenges faced by having team members located in multiple locations, now it’s time to move the story on and start thinking about how we can really thrive and innovate in this brave new world.
What is internal communication for? A year ago, we’d probably have said to ‘inform, inspire and connect’ employees, but now we think it has a bit more to answer for.
Culture, as they say, eats strategy for breakfast. No matter your best intentions, the culture of a place will always overcome the best intentions of those at the head of the household (and business).
Employees connected to the overall purpose and strategy of the organisation, feeling valued in relation to that purpose, with a general sense of trust and belief in the business leaders.
