Almost every single piece of content published to your intranet should have a real person’s name attached to it — a byline.
Being a “transparent” workplace is hip these days. Everything from glass walls to all-hands town halls to openly rating peer performance are well-intentioned measures to reinforce the notion that a company is willing to be honest about success, failure, and attempts to improve and grow.
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Volumetrics relates to measurement by volume, where volume is an amount or the quantity of your output.
Volumetrics are superficial measurements of some of your team’s success and output. They help you understand what’s working and what’s not and should be reviewed regularly; if not daily then at least weekly.
What am I talking about exactly? Volumetrics for internal comms include:
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Publishing to a platform, rather than to individual channels, is the surest way to increase the return on investment (ROI) for your time, effort, and output. A platform consists of the multitude of channels (or outlets) to which you distribute comms content.
To be successful with a multichannel publishing strategy, you must understand all the channels that are available to your team. You should also consider possible channels, so you can think creatively or anticipate resource needs for the future.
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Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat reports the company is seeing pre-pandemic productivity levels from employees thanks to leadership coaching and lots of employee surveys. “We’re pretty much back to pre-Covid levels,” she said.
The productivity reset can be attributed to several employee engagement tactics, including:
Welcome to the fourth installment of my interview series with internal comms professionals.
Hanna Lundgren is a Co-worker Communication Leader for IKEA, where she’s been for nearly five years. Although the global corporate office is in Malmö, Sweden, it remains shuttered because of the pandemic. …
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“A Spoonful of Sugar” is a song from the 1964 film Mary Poppins. The catchy tune opens with these lyrics:
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun
You find the fun and snap, the job’s a game
And every task you undertake becomes a piece of cake
A lark, a spree, it’s very clear to see
Poppins, the nanny, uses the uptempo song to show two children, Jane and Michael, that even a daunting task like cleaning their bedroom can be made more pleasant with just a little bit of…
What a week…
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This week (year) is momentous for many reasons. The U.S. presidential election, the most significant and most hotly contested in decades, is nurturing our collective anxiety. Our attention is consumed, but not completely…
The world tends to keep spinning despite real and perceived cataclysms. …
Welcome to the third installment of my interview series with internal comms professionals.
Dante Ragazzo is the Senior Director of Digital Workplace at Tapestry, a position he has held for two years. Previously Dante managed Tapestry’s enterprise portal and before that, he was in internal comms at EY.
Tapestry is the house for modern luxury lifestyle brands Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman. Publicly traded (TPR) and based in New York City, Tapestry has five corporate offices around the world, two major…
Since the Black Lives Matter movement exploded into our collective consciousness in 2014 with the deaths of Michael Brown (Ferguson, MO) and Eric Garner (New York City), the trend in internal comms storytelling has been based on values. There are two complementary tracks:
These trends are not going away.
A Biden administration will make storytelling around values even more difficult. Why? Before I answer that, first some background.
Good morning, afternoon, and evening. There are 11 days left until the U.S. election.
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A Gallup poll released this week shows that 36% of employees are engaged with their company, the highest engagement rate in 20 years. Engaged employees are motivated and enthusiastic about their job and workplace.
Which means…
Many internal comms teams don’t have an editorial strategy. I’m here to fix that. Newsletter: https://mistereditorial.substack.com/.