Seeking an Internal Communication Role? Plan Your Change

Seeking a role in internal communication and not sure how to go about the interview process? In this blog I am sharing pertinent themes and relevant questions that you should ask and seek answers for while planning your move and interviewing for a role in internal communication. I an earlier post I had written on potential [...]

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Policy Rollouts and Adoption – Role of Internal Communicators

All of us must be familiar with policies and guidelines such as ethics, gifting, dress code, behavior and office infrastructure among others that are foundations for any organization’s success – either as recipients of these policies or the creators.  However how, when and what needs to be communicated will determine how your employees perceive your company in [...]

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Best Companies to Work in India Study – New Approach, Different Perspectives

The Business Today -Indicus-People Strong Survey is out (February 7, 2010) and the top names sound familiar. Infosys ranks numero uno followed by Google. TCS, Microsoft also feature in the list. Noteworthy names missing are NetApps, Adobe, Cisco, Intel and HCL who were ranked highly in other studies last year. With an all new methodology [...]

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Best Employer Submission Insight and Your Employees’ Commitment

I recently partnered with an internal team to submit content for a ‘best places’ entry. This blog post is to share ideas on distilling your organization’s interesting internal ideas and to engage employees along the way. Most of us may be familiar with the following tag lines which organizations aim to place in their communication. [...]

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Are you Embracing ‘Employee-Led’ CSR and Communication?

‘A small favor’ said the subject line. An e-mail winged in from a motivated employee calling interested individuals to chip in aid of the victims of the worst floods South India has seen in decades. The mail goes on to articulate the project, the effort, the expectation, the plan and people involved. Right down to [...]

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Sustainability and Communication – Fostering a Trusting Work Environment

How closely you engage your employees can be the difference between sustaining through tough times or sinking into insignificance. Unlike ever before the barometer of engagement is been tested so intently by employees in organizations world over. Sustainability means different things for different organizations – ranging from work-life balance to being a great place to work, from [...]

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Sense and Senstivity in Internal Communications

Your leadership wanted to beat the recession. We had layoffs. We were pressurized to revisit our operating expenses. That led to a wave of reforms (pay cuts, reduction in benefits among others). You (the HR and Communications teams) believed it was necessary and you communicated it the right way. Or did we? Were we sensitive [...]

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Are you losing your best performers in this downturn?

The India Attrition Study 2008 (October 2008- March 2009) conducted by Business Today and People Strong  is out. The May 3, 2009 dated edition of Business Today carries an article on key findings.   The study tried to understand why employees quit and how this current slowdown has impacted the way employers view their employees. [...]

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Value feedback or find it on a Discussion Forum!

A mail in our internal informal network caught my attention. It was from an employee upset by the poor service and attitude which his team and he experienced while at lunch at a newly opened restaurant in Delhi.   What made me sit up was the potential impact of this experience (read: word of mouth/viral [...]

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