04th November 2009
Some time ago Harvard Business Review published an article entitled ‘Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance’. If you’re interested in the psychology of work – and of communication – it’s well worth reading. Its auth...
16th October 2009
Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web stated in 1999 that the Web is “an information space through which people can communicate, but communicate in a special way: communicate by sharing their knowledge in a pool. The idea was not just that ...
12th October 2009
You may dismiss it as a website for attention-deprived teenagers with an interest in strange cats, but YouTube, and other video sharing services like it, have the potential to change the way you communicate. YouTube factor is about much more than generati...
05th October 2009
I've been reading Leandro Herrero's latest book, Disruptive Ideas, and he's got me thinking about the potential we communicators have to transform our organisations from the inside-out. It proposes a menu of simple ideas which could, if implemented in the...
23rd September 2009
Skeptical, contemptuous and mocking – the dictionary definition of cynicism and three words that describe the type of audience internal communicators’ nightmares are made of. But cynics have always been part of the fabric of British working life and, ...
07th September 2009
There have been at least two studies published in year 2007 that have touched upon the thorny issue of swearing in the workplace. The thorny issue, is bad language ever a good communication practice?
In the past spring the Aziz Corporation conducted re...
01st September 2009
It is often said that moving home is one of the primary causes of stress in modern society. Whether we spend hours planning it or just go with the flow, it involves lots of emotional upheaval and significant change. Now considering that, according to the ...
25th August 2009
There was an interesting article in PR Week last week, on the subject of leadership communication. Entitled ‘Get the best out of your boss’ it outlines six of the most common leadership styles and suggests how communicators can best play to the person...
13th August 2009
Good communication is among the top five characteristics needed by teams and leaders to succeed in a complex working environment. Recent research has identified good communication along with strong organizational support, high levels of leadership compete...
26th July 2009
The tragic and horrific case of Baby Peter, the toddler who died in August 2007 after receiving sustained abuse from his mother, her boyfriend and their lodger, provides a stark reminder of the importance of communication at work and the potential consequ...
23rd July 2009
Internal communication specialist headhunters Watson Helsby, published an report entitled "Internal Communications – More to Deliver’ , the sequel to a similar research exercise undertaken way back in 2002, which was widely acclaimed at the time.
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04th July 2009
The closet academic in me is always delighted to get his hands on new scholarly thinking about employee communication and other workplace issues. He’s also frustrated by the limited amount of research being undertaken in this area, particularly around t...
11th June 2009
You may dismiss it as a website for attention-deprived teenagers with an interest in strange cats, but YouTube, and other video sharing services like it, have the potential to change the way you communicate.
As well as opening up a new and exciting c...
16th April 2009
Internal Communications professionals closely work with leaders, managers and in-house communicators, at the place and globally, to help shape their organization’s culture, mobilise employees behind change and bring values to life by delivering high qua...
09th April 2009
In a recent online poll conducted by http://www.internalcommunications.co.uk – an internal communication agency based in UK, asked its visitors 'you're only allowed one communications channel, what would it be?' The answer, surprise surprise, was that f...
