In 2015 the sustainable development goals (SDGs) were born. They are a set of set of 17 goals, 169 targets and indicators that all 193 UN member states will be expected to use this frame in their agendas and political…
A company (or, for that matter a large public or nonprofit organization) is a collection of small towns within a bigger city. It has territories (office locations), governing officials (leadership teams), Laws (processes and procedures), citizens (law and non-law-abiding employees),…
Email has been, in recent years, the long-suffering tool that we, as internal communicators, have tossed onto the ‘must-have’ in any form of campaign. We add it in as the consort to the queen intranet as we bring out the…
As the lock down in the UK and globally starts to ease and some organisations start working on phased transitioning their employees back to the workplace the question of culture has been on the top of my mind. There is…
The furlough scheme has been extended until Oct 2020 Chancellor Rishi Sunak in an unprecedented move by the government to support UK firms through the Coronavirus outbreak. It means that employers can claim a grant covering 80% of an employees’ wages,…
On Sunday 10th May Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister, laid out the beginnings of how our lives will start to slowly go back to an unknown normal. As internal communicators we might be tasked like I was with thinking about and…
For what seems like a lifetime we have been discussing, at great length, how to communicate with employees from different generations. Despite the fact that in recent years the generation demographics have chopped and changed, and we are entering a…
COVID-19 has given way to a new era of how we communicate – virtually. For us internal communicators who find ourselves thrown into a panicked frenzy of figuring out what to do without the usual town halls, middle manager stand-ups…
Almost every organisation no matter how large or small has workplace and operation sustainability as one of its key priorities and even if they haven’t yet caught up on it, they will eventually be pressured by their employees and shareholders…
Until recently the “M ” word aka Menopause was not in my radar and it would not have been if it wasn’t for my friends and mother who are going through it now. I watched my friends struggle with this phase…