Celebrating Company Milestones and Workforce Engagement

Have a milestone worth celebrating? Unsure how to get your employees singing the same tune? Every organization big or small has reasons to celebrate important milestones during their journey to energize their staff. Be it the completion of your company’s years of operations, a new product launch, an employee growth success story or even the [...]

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The Benefits of Revisiting Your Internal Communication Priorities

This month I caught up with my team at Chicago and we stepped back to re-chart our goals and focus areas for the year and beyond. To me it meant unlearning and looking at our stakeholders from a different lens altogether. Personally this meeting taught me a few pointers on structuring a team’s strategy for [...]

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How Internal Communicators Can Lead Your Organization’s Social Networking Beginning

Planning to get your organization on the social media map? There are factors which I learnt along the way that is needed to get completely immersed. Read more about the do’s and don’ts of kick-starting your firm’s social media communication. Understand also how you can leverage internal communication context and content. The power of social [...]

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If you can’t be found, you won’t be found

I had the opportunity to speak to an enthusiastic batch of students from Bangalore Management Academy on February 21, 2009 on the changing business landscape, its impact on career planning, the heightened need for personal branding and how social media can help one succeed in this quest. The topic was ‘If you can’t be found, [...]

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Information overload and the role of internal communicators

Organizations are waking up to the alarming increase in information overload and drop in productivity among their staff. According to RescueTime, an organization which analyses computer use behavior, a typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail programme more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times.The research also [...]

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Career potential and Web 2.0

At a New Media and Career workshop for students conducted today, I posed the following questions: Is your resume New Media ready? Do you know what makes a curriculum vitae tick in the social media space? Are you sending the right messages for recruiters trawling the web? Is your career Web 2.0 proof? Recent shifts [...]

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New media success tips for the management education community

The management education community (students, placement professionals and leaders) can derive immense benefits from new media/social media/Web 2.0 and its popularity. Rising interest in new media coupled with faster, cheaper access to the internet has fueled opportunities for interactivity, community and brand building. But, awareness of how new media impacts our personal and professional lives is [...]

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Listen to a podcast on new media and internal communication

  Welcome to my first podcast on my blog!  http://aniisu.podbean.com/2008/06/17/podcast-on-new-media-and-internal-communication/ In this podcast, I summarize the implications of new media influence on internal communications and provide a strategy for managers to leverage opportunities to their advantage. The views from this podcast are from a workshop conducted on the same subject in 2007.   Below are some starter-kit [...]

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Meeting Generation Next

On Saturday, April 26, 2008, I had an opportunity to meet an enthusiastic bunch of students while conducting a half-day workshop on corporate etiquette and networking. These students are working towards a 15 month MBA from a B-School in Bangalore.   Quite the Generation Next of India, I figured! Articulate, respectful, knowledgeable, willing to challenge [...]

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Internal communications trend from a GolinHarris study

  A Golin Harris prediction for the next 50 years in PR includes a mention of the digital age, new media and internal communications.   Keeping the workforce motivated is a challenge – the report mentions trust is on the decline with organizations. According to the prediction, a recent study from Insidedge indicates only 50% [...]

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