7 design flaws that can undermine your intranet
Certain visual elements can confuse your employees; structural pitfalls can lead them down a rabbit hole. Here are common problems, along with ways to overcome them.
Certain visual elements can confuse your employees; structural pitfalls can lead them down a rabbit hole. Here are common problems, along with ways to overcome them.
Staff surveys. Personalized content. Digital screens displaying customer comments. These are a few of the tactics used by organizations that successfully engage their employees.
You might not realize it, but if you limit colleagues’ text to ‘safe’ language, they’ll default to corporate lingo, resulting in banal, stilted emails, presentations and promos. Buck that trend.
Avoid the pitfalls of email, and reclaim it as a comms tool. Get more people reading your messages, whether it’s overloading your recipients or creating legal risk.
The breezy nature of the video platform enables senior leaders to present a more human face to staffers and to the general public. But would your CEO take a pie in the face for the cause?
Three hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Here are three reasons why many go unwatched—and how to make sure yours stand out.
Howard Schultz, who will pass the baton to COO Kevin Johnson, plans to develop its premium-coffee stores. Despite an upbeat call to investors, shares tumbled.
Your staff can’t embody a nebulous concept. Specify in writing what ideals your organization strives for collectively, and reward employees who epitomize those aspirations.
More and more marketing execs are using their engagement knowhow to connect with internal teams. Here’s how—along with a weekly roundup of open comms positions.
Twitter and Lyft offer lessons in how to keep employees on board in hyper-growth companies and other topsy-turvy environments.
Why is this e-newsletter winning fans in internal and external comms? Start with its witty style. Plus, there’s that vital news about a woman who found a rat sewn up in her Zara dress.
Consumers threatened to boycott the brand after one exec’s pro-Trump stance prompted praise from a white supremacist. Here’s what went wrong—and how it could have gone differently.
Turns out Norton Healthcare employees wanted quick information on raises, vacation days and discounts, not floods of email. And what about when a patient wants his dog to visit?
You’re puzzling about new ways to reach everyone from the boardroom to the production floor. The answer is in your hands—or, rather, theirs. Consider an app for their handheld devices.
The beverage behemoth is recognized in almost every country on earth, so how does it create and sustain a culture that embraces individual employees in diverse cultures? Look, and learn.