Employee contests are a great way to drive engagement and messages home. However, running contests can get your team tied in knots if you aren’t thinking through the goals and outcomes. It requires planning and focus on outcomes. Very often, contests go wrong when we fail to consider employees’ appetite for engagement, the timing or […]
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Shall we start a forum for inclusion and diversity?
As we continue the dialogue on inclusion and diversity at the workplace, I am inviting you to reflect on the approaches that can create an environment of safety for marginalized staff, such as the LGBTIQ community. In my previous posts, I sought your views on including minorities at the workplace and received some excellent perspectives. Parek: (CEO) “Lots of […]
Have a disruptive internal communications approach? Enter the Gorilla Games and be a winner!
My good friend Mike Klein and his partners are running an exciting essay contest for internal communicators called The Gorilla Games. Quirky name! Pick one of the 5 internal communication challenges and submit your entry online. You stand a chance to win a grand prize! What’s more – your idea will get the support it […]
Inclusion is a leadership prerogative; not a random act of kindness
In my earlier post, I shared a scenario of an organization attempting to get started on inclusion and diversity. Received some insightful comments from readers on what they perceived the issues on hand. Also, appropriate actions that could help James (the CEO) introduce practices related to diversity & inclusion at his organization. While many organizations today […]
Can we get an expatriate to launch our diversity & inclusion agenda?
An organization, Rasp Inc., is keen to initiate plans for making diversity & inclusion a key theme for the year. While their global headquarters has a strong practice for including minorities, there isn’t a forum to get marginalized employees to feel included.  They decide to engage an expatriate Joshua who has come over on a […]
5 Ways to Effectively Close the Loop with Your Stakeholders
Completed a campaign and moving on to the next? Did you take the time to seek feedback and share a campaign summary? If yes, you have just added more points to your credibility quotient. Closing the loop with stakeholders and actively seeking feedback can help you learn from initiatives, appreciate how they perceived your work […]
Daily Practice for Long-Term Success – What’s Your Story?
Irrespective of the role you play, every day brings new challenges and opportunities at work and beyond. Life and work can be demanding if you are drawn in different directions and there is not a rhythm to your practice – as a professional, student, entrepreneur or homemaker. In the Progress Principle, Teresa Amabile studied close to 12,000 […]
Decoding corporate reputation from the inside-out
Every day we hear of crises where organizations struggle to manage their corporate reputations. Nearly 7 in 10 communication professionals have experienced reputational crises at work in the last few years – resulting from government oversight, inability to attract talent and loss of customer trust. It isn’t that leaders are unaware of the implications, but there is […]
5 Approaches For Creating Your Organization’s Communication Blueprint
Expanding to other markets and want to bring a consistent form to internal communication that aligns employees? Keen to create a simple and effective method of effective communication, which brings all leaders on the same page? Rather than start from scratch, it helps to know what will make the new market or location integrate better […]
Guest Blog & Interview | Arathi Biradar | Why Internal Communications is Fundamental to Organizational Reputation
The 30th edition of Intraskope’s Spotlight on Internal Communication Series features Arathi Biradar of Itelligence India Software Solutions. Arathi builds a case for aligning staff to drive corporate reputation. She believes strongly that internal communication is a key influencer in improving brand image. Arathi leads the marketing and communications for Itelligence India. She has 14+ years […]