- CHANGE COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE
- After a year of major change, redundancies, restructuring and general upheaval, many organisations now have the sobering challenge of re-engaging employees, keeping the momentum for more change ahead and ensuring that leaders know how to effectively drive that change.
- THE COMMUNICATION STORY OF 2009
- In the latest in a series of podcasts, under the title ‘Cafe2Go’, International Association of Business Communicators President, Julie Freeman, and Chair, Mark Schumann, join Cafe2Go host Joseph Ugalde to talk about their responses to the question: “What was the communication story of 2009?”.
- CiB LAUNCHES ADVANCED DIPLOMA
- The British Association of Communicators in Business (CiB) – soon to be the Institute of Internal Communication – has launched its Advanced Diploma of Proficiency in Internal Communication as a key part of its strategy to raise industry standards.
- EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNICATION
- The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Excellence in Communication Leadership (EXCEL) Award.
- IMPACT ON PRODUCTIVITY OF STRESS AT WORK
- Productivity across UK business has been 'significantly undermined' by mental health issues arising from stress in the workplace, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
- THE LATEST IN INTERNET COMMUNICATION
- There’s much excitement over Google’s latest launch – Wave.
- DISCUSSION ON ONLINE RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT
- The growth of the web and proliferation of digital tools have given communicators unprecedented access to a whole new range of information about their audiences. Running web surveys and setting up panels is now standard practice.
- STAFF BOREDOM 'A TICKING TIME BOMB'
- Employers are facing a time bomb, it has been claimed, after new research suggested more than a fifth of the UK working population feels unfulfilled.
- FACEBOOK SLIMS DOWN
- The popular social networking site Facebook is testing a new slimmed-down version of the site. Launched initially in India and the US in August, Facebook Lite is now available in the UK.
- COMMUNICATION ACROSS EUROPE
- In its latest survey of internal communication practice across Europe, the Federation of European Business Communicators Associations (FEIEA) reveals how they see the emergence of internal communication as a distinct professional field.
- HAPPINESS AT WORK
- More than a quarter of UK office workers are unhappy in their workplace, according to the latest Happiness at Work Index from recruitment consultants Badenoch & Clark.
- FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATION TOOLKIT – NEW EDITION
- A new edition of ‘The Face-to-Face Communication Toolkit: Creating an Engaged Workforce’ is now available.
- A LESSON IN POPULARITY
- According to former BBC Director General Greg Dyke, the key to building up a high degree of trust and loyalty among employees is to make sure that they say the right things about you to others.
- THE BUSINESS BENEFITS OF WEB 2.0
- Having tracked the rising adoption of Web 2.0 technologies – such as social networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis and blogs – for the last three years, McKinsey & Co have concluded that companies are deriving measurable business benefits from their investments in the web.
- ADDICTED TO YOUR MOBILE?
- Three-quarters of British people have addictive tendencies when it comes to technology, putting gadgets and gizmos ahead of many other things in their lives.
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- TAKING THE CREDIT
- A recent poll by Monster, the online recruitment service, has shown that 90 per cent of UK workers surveyed would not take credit for their colleagues’ work.
- MEASURING YOUR READINESS TO PERFORM
- A new online questionnaire which enables an organisation or department to measure its ‘readiness to perform’ after undertaking change initiatives, such as downsizing, restructuring or a merger/acquisition, has been launched today by TalentDrain, the employee engagement and retention specialist.
- ONLINE VIDEO IS MOST POPULAR SOCIAL MEDIA COMMS TOOL
- Professional communicators have rated online video as the most important social media tool currently being used in their communication strategies.
- BRITAIN’S POSITIVE WORKFORCE
- More than half the British workforce feel positive about their employers' response to the recession, according to a survey of over 2,900 people.