Incentives for internal contests and promos – the thin line

There seems to be a fine line when it comes to introducing incentives to employees for participating in internal contests and promos. I am facing a typical issue…with the noble intention of making the intranet a truly fun place to visit, I put up a plan to popularize the pages with fun events and activities [...]

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Consistency vs the ‘new look’

We are all fond of getting a little change in our lives…….- a new hair-do, a new pair of glasses…..but when it comes to changing an internal web page…..we are often at cross roads with regard to the overall look and feel…..the debate – time tested vs the unknown………which I am sure most internal communicators [...]

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Communicating while in transit

In India, with the outsourcing boom, we have witnessed a spurt of transport fleet management entities which ferry employees to and from their homes and work.
I am sure it is a unique concept compared to any other nation involved in outsourcing. Our challenges stem from matching shift timings, infrastructure issues, transport drawbacks among others.
Well, internal [...]

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Bringing the buzz back to the intranet

While I believe that intranets should be self-running animals, it often becomes difficult to start the initial dialogue and get a pulse of organization.
With page views and content contributions few and far between, I recently initiated a set of fun activities on the intranet after cajoling some employees to champion the pages. One of them [...]

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Pink Slip Awards?

http://www.pinkslipawards.com/
 This is a fiendishly named award for employer branding! In India, Time of India, one of the leading publications in the country which has a recruitment insert called Times Ascent – quite popular. The concept of creating an awards around recruitment marketing and employer branding is quite unique in these parts though.
But the awards branding itself might [...]

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Playing it ‘politically correct’ in internal communications!

How often have you come across a situation where you need to balance content based on geographic sentiments? Have you revised your internal communications to include ‘lesser’ known locations?
In India, with the growing need to expand, more and more organizations are moving to Tier 2 and 3 cities ( to the layman, apart from the [...]

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Is event communication a subset of internal communication?

In India, the need for the hour in most organizations is employee engagement and retention. Organizations now go to any length to make any activity an event!
I have seen many Corporate Communication teams hire event management experts on board to manage the spurt of programs which are branded and sold internally as ‘events’. These fall [...]

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Timing the e-mail communication and how to break the mould

I chanced upon this interesting study on internal communications which talks of e-mail clutter on page 8.
http://home.bi.no/fgl96053/CommStudy.pdf
 While this is an issue with many organizations, I guess we try to find other media to communicate and sometimes fail to address the timing of the communication itself.
From what I hear Intel does a good job internally to [...]

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