Employee engagement that means business
Five key steps to success As long ago as 1657 the French philosopher Blaise Pascal gave us the famous quote: ‘If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.’ And his words came easily to mind recently, when an intern at a Swedish client asked me to share five steps she needed […]
Five steps to effectively communicate and deliver change with your workforce It is often said, in today’s fast-moving world, that one of the few constants in life is change. In fact we’ve been saying that in business for years, so as leaders and communicators you’d hope that by now we’d be pretty good at communicating […]
How to fine tune your communication activities to power up your people What you communicate, and how you position it, can go a very long way towards motivating your people – or indeed have the opposite effect. So it is worth taking the time and trouble to think these matters through and achieve an even […]
How ‘presearch’ helps ensure the relevance and reach of your conference messages Achieving a balance between what senior leaders want to talk about and what their people want to find out about, is a discussion that all too rarely takes place. That’s a missed opportunity for all forms of communication, especially in the lead up […]
Involving informal influencers in shaping and sharing your company’s stories, can be transformational With the Winter Olympics drawing to a close it has been a great few weeks for stories. The Canadian figure skating duo, Virtue & Moir, melted hearts, with their ice dance to the ‘Moulin Rouge’ soundtrack. The story of their golden comeback, […]
Five steps to ensure your events make a real difference to business performance – especially through the people who can’t even be there Putting on a good conference sucks up both time and budget like few other things. But, conferences also have the potential to really inspire leaders and align their actions… like few other […]
How to paint a picture of future success for your organisation and get your people telling stories about how their hard work makes a difference Experience tells us that staff contribute more fully to business performance when they know how the work they do day in and day out fits into the grand scheme of […]
How leaders and communicators can win hearts and minds in change management Asking a group of people to change the way they’ve been doing something for years often triggers highly charged emotional responses, and they are rarely positive. Yet when tackling change management, so many organisations seem to ignore this. Instead they rely heavily on […]
What’s on the minds of colleagues right now? Are they fired up and engaged? Disinterested? Fearful? Now there’s a way to know for sure Staying in touch with the ‘word on the street’ is critical in connecting with an audience. Getting it wrong can have serious consequences – just ask Theresa May, David Cameron, and […]
Now there’s an affordable, pocket-sized way to help equip your managers with the leadership communication skills they need to deliver success It’s widely held that leaders are – or at least should be – the most trusted and effective channel of communication, especially during times of change. Yet most employee opinion surveys I see single […]