- THE STATS CRUNCH IS DEAD, LONG LIVE JACKANORY!
- The London Business School has found we retain 65-70% of a message through stories, only 5-10% through stats.
- IC Summit
- Leading professionals from some of the world’s top companies will be sharing their internal communications experiences at a major event in London next month. The Strategic Communication Management Summit UK 2008 takes place at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel on 15 and 16 October.
- Introducing…maestro!
- Finding out what people really think about their job and their employer, and what motivates them to stay or leave, is important but not always easy to achieve.
- CiB launches new-style strategy awards
- The 2008 Communication Strategy Awards has become the first CiB award programme to focus solely on internal communications.
- How Tesco communicates with its diverse workforce
- Externally, Tesco is one of the most talked-about companies in the UK. But internally, it’s a real challenge for the communications team to get news to its 300,000 employees in the UK and a further 150,000 overseas before they read it in newspapers, hear it from customers, or see it on TV.
- Inspiration time
- Internal comms professionals will have a great opportunity to get together with their peers
- Discontented staff and managers on the move
- There’s a worrying dis-satisfaction among employees and middle managers, research is revealing.
- Lunch break guilt
- Office life is becoming unhealthy and unproductive as more and more workers across the UK feel guilty if they take a full lunch hour, a recent poll has found.
- A daunting task made easier…
- Where and how do you start to measure your internal communications efforts? What does the process actually entail and how can you guarantee success?
- Uni team up for awards
- Sheffield Hallam University’s internal communications team has been shortlisted for two prestigious national PR industry awards.
- B&Q does it again
- For the second year running, B&Q has shown it’s got what it takes when it comes to engaging with its workforce.
- Research points to unhappy Londoners
- Every day, nearly three-quarters of workers in London think about changing jobs.
- Green equals trust
- It’s not just the environment that benefits when organisations “go green” - Kenexa Research Institute believes companies who opt for recycling, energy conservation and vendor selection are gaining a positive advantage over their competitors.
- Stay united through upheaval
- When Danish pharmaceutical company Nycomed took over Altana Pharma in 2006, an intense communication campaign began to unite the workforces and form a single identity.