All Communication articles – Page 4
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Supplier articleKeeping race on the agenda
The recent Black Lives Matter protests and wider civil rights movements have brought the topic of race and racism into the foreground throughout society. To help maintain this momentum, clinical psychologist Dr Fabienne Palmer outlines how employers and business leaders can continue conversations about race equality in ...
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Supplier articleHow to craft blog headlines for effective employee communications
For many businesses, blogs are an essential channel to relay important company updates and news to their employees. In the age of COVID-19, this has become increasingly important as businesses around the world are dealing with dispersed workforces, with a mix of remote workers and frontline employees. But what is ...
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Supplier articleApproaching difficult conversations in the workplace
Like it or not, offices can’t always be harmonious places to work. At some point you’ll need to address an issue with a colleague, but what’s the best way to handle this? According to the Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most book by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and ...
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Supplier articleMass redundancies: How HR can make the hardest conversations better
Let’s get things out in the open: Your business may be facing an impossible situation. And sometimes those impossible situations lead to bad news for your employees, such as redundancies.This bad news – telling someone something they do not want to hear is not what people in HR like doing. ...
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Supplier articleWhy cultural fitness is key to improving company culture
With so many competing priorities on leaders’ to-do lists every day, it’s tempting to leave culture on the back burner while we focus our attention on more immediate or urgent tasks. But if you’re thinking, 'she’ll be alright,' know this: Nothing tests company culture more than crisis, uncertainty or change ...
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Jennifer Hill: Making a return to the workplace
As lockdown is relaxed throughout the Covid-19 (Coronavirus), employers need to plan carefully for employees’ return to the workplace to accommodate for effective communication, wellbeing, and healthcare.Crucially, employees should continue to work from home if they can, and employers should take all reasonable steps to help employees to do so.Employers ...
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Supplier articleCut through the noise: Communications to reach your remote workers
When the world of work has gone remote, trying to cut through the noise of daily emails, Zoom notifications, and social media is daunting. Under these circumstances, it is even more important for employers to be able to reach their people. So, how can we get more from our communications ...
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Supplier articleThe delicate balancing act of engaging furloughed and non-furloughed employees
In the course of the pandemic, businesses everywhere have been forced to make difficult decisions to ensure their future. While we’ve seen many close their doors either permanently or temporarily, others have used the support from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (aka the Furlough Scheme) to preserve jobs and cash ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: Managing Our Way Out of COVID-19
Employee benefits provider Busy Bees Benefits believe that returning businesses to full economic activity will be a difficult task that requires business leaders to use their ingenuity.As business leaders, you need to make sure that you take the right steps to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of your employees ...
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Supplier articleCommunications in a crisis
Gethin Nadin, Director, Employee Wellbeing, BenefexRecently, I caught up with Sian Myers – Culture Transformation Director at property developer, Countryside – to talk about how to handle communications in a crisis like the Coronavirus pandemic. Throughout our discussion, Sian honestly and sensitively shared her experiences of guiding her employees through ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid gets to grips with online meetings
I am about ready to throw something at someone; only there is no one here because I am working at home. Most of the office is working from home just now. Big Bad Boss has scheduled weekly catch up calls so we don’t ‘lose touch’. I don’t know about losing ...
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Supplier articleFinding your North Star: Why company purpose matters more than ever
Right now we are all faced with extraordinary challenges and for some, those challenges will be life changing. In a matter of weeks the way we do business has been turned on its head.Because of this we are working to manage multiple scenarios that many have never encountered before. ...
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Supplier articleNew webinar: 8 ways to cultivate connection, culture and productivity
Having spent the last few months prioritising crisis management and business continuity, HR Changemakers are now shifting their focus to the next phase of work. How do leaders connect with and engage employees to manage change, while strengthening trust, morale and productivity?During this webinar, you will learn how to:? Provide ...
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Supplier articleCoronavirus has shown employers that online is more important than ever
The Covid-19 pandemic has already had far-reaching effects on businesses everywhere. Whether in the Americas or Eurasia, the financial and economic consequences are immense, from mass furloughing of employees in the travel industry, to bankruptcy among retail companies. It’s clear we will be seeing the economic impact of coronavirus for ...
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Supplier articleA manager’s guide to onboarding remote employees
Employee onboarding and induction sets the tone for an employee’s experience with your organisation. And in times of crises, this is arguably more important. Onboarding remote employees isn’t something we’re necessarily used to, but we need to make sure our people have the best experience possible, no matter where they ...
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Supplier articleHow to manage writer’s block when creating employee communications
So, you’ve started a blog to keep your people up-to-date during the Covid-19 pandemic, but you’re not sure what to write about? If the messages I’m receiving from our clients are true, I can assure you that you’re not alone.First, I want to say how great it is that you ...
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Supplier articleConsiderations for furloughing staff and access to IT systems
During these challenging times, we know that some companies are having to make the difficult decision to furlough employees.The UK Government announced unprecedented support for businesses through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. This support allows businesses to 'furlough’ employees.There are some things that employers need to consider around IT systems ...
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Supplier articleBreaking through the noise: 3 new ways to connect with your people
When companies make it easy for employees to connect with each other and with the vision and mission of the business, the outcomes are overwhelmingly positive.Whether we like it or not – and whether our businesses are prepared or not – the current dispersed workplace trends mean employees aren’t all ...
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Case StudiesMVF creates feedback-based improvement plan for internal communications
Technology organisation MVF is working on maximising employee engagement by improving internal communications across all of its 450 employees.The project, which commenced in August 2019, includes engaging key stakeholders to find out what communication challenges have been faced in the past, and consider how these might be addressed in the ...
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AnalysisTop lessons for improving benefits communications
Need to know:A communication strategy that builds up information over time is vital, because ad-hoc methods are unreliable when it comes to boosting engagement and take-up of benefits.Employers should consider their workforce demographics and job structure, and aim to get information to staff at a time and in a format ...