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Video is an important channel to not just inspire and engage your workforce but to build your brand from within. Research studies highlight an increase in demand for video as a medium – the need for visual communication is growing and more and more communicators are seeing value in video to communicate messages. The popularity […]

There are many internal online collaborative platforms such as Yammer, Social Cast and Jive that organizations use to connect, engage and communicate with employees. The use of enterprise social networks is on the rise and according to industry reports many companies will are seeing the value of collaboration and will have implemented a solution internally. […]

Consider these following scenarios – A large IT organization decides to rewire its performance management system and sends out a communication stating revised roles and levels in their hierarchy. It triggers a huge backlash as employees feel shortchanged. Many think their career has moved a few steps backward. The company witnesses an exodus of talent. […]

Today, in the company of my colleagues I got the opportunity to listen to one of my favorite management authors – Dr Marshall Goldsmith, the world renowned author and leadership coach at the NHRD – HR Conference at Bangalore. What struck me most was how well thought through the event was – from the singing […]

Many brands can reach an inflection point in their journey and may want to revisit and refresh. So how does one go about it? Whom do you involve? Internal communicators need to be invited (or be asked they get invited!) to define the approach for the new internal brand identity. With ownership of internal branding […]

Harsha, the internal communications leader of Top Infra, a multinational with over 5000 employees sat in a meeting called by her CEO – Manoj. Top Infra has a very young workforce with an average age of 26 years although they had a mix of all workforce generations. Also present at the briefing were the HR […]

Book Your Seat Today! Presenting a full-day, hands-on workshop: Internal Communications 401 – Brand Building, Inside Out on October 11, 2014 at Bangalore. This is the 4th in the series of workshops which started in 2011. Keen to win the war on talent through employee advocates? Committed to growing your internal brand and taking employees […]

It was a Monday morning and most of my team members were already in their cubicles engrossed at work. Suddenly, we heard our senior leader call out in a loud and commanding tone across the bay to an intern. The intern had recently joined the team and was headed to Delhi for training. It seems […]

Today, I had the opportunity to engage in a refreshing dialogue with Ravi Chauhan, MD – SAP India who spoke with corporate communicators at NASSCOM’s Marketing Communications Forum in Bangalore. The topic –‘What will make Communications Strategic For Business’ elicited a lot of interest and close to 20 professionals converged to debate the subject. Thanks […]

With multiple generations at the workforce and the increasingly large age gap between those leading organizations and those following, reverse mentoring is today an essential part of employee engagement. As a concept reverse mentoring sounds like a must-have for every organization. Putting the principles to work takes a lot of effort due to the seemingly […]