Employee Communications: Show Some Leg On Intranet
This approach can help break down silos, humanize your company’s divisions and pique interest in how your company operates.
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Employee Communications: Do You Hear Me?
“What are words for? When no one listens anymore.” The early 1980s song “Words” from Missing Persons aptly sums up today’s growing epidemic: the lost art of listening. Listening is a powerful communication skill and it’s on the decline. From the dinner table to the conference room table, people are tuning out loved ones and coworkers.
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Let’s Get Physical With Employee Communications
While companies might say engagement is a top priority, often times their office spaces send the opposite message. But seas of cubicles with scattered closed-off conference rooms are a mainstream of corporate America.
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Employee Communications: Come Together
Involving employees from the beginning can have a number of benefits including an uptick in leadership trust, engagement, innovation, productivity and the bottom line.
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Employee Communications: Listen To The Work
As leaders rise through the ranks, it’s easy to become so engrossed in the bigger picture items (not to mention the politics). Memories of work life on the front lines fade over time. Ultimately, it can become easier to stop listening.
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Employee Communications: New G.M. Chief Gets Visible
New leaders sometimes focus on their expanded responsibilities as well as internal political pressures, putting face time with employees on the back burner. Barra is taking a powerful leadership communication strategy by making herself visible and approachable.
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Employee Communications: Talk Amongst Employees
Keeping it real but simple and informal is what employees will tend to remember.
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Employee Communications: Let Me Hear Your Body Talk
A furrowed brow might say, “Don’t talk to me.” A faint “hi” or even lack of acknowledgement in the hallway might translate into, “I’m disappointed in your performance.”
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Employee Communications: No Reply At All
Leaders: Ask yourselves what message you are sending to employees when you do not acknowledge their emails or voicemails. What assumptions might they make if they do not hear back from you? What does it say about your company culture if this is the norm? How might this behavior impact engagement?
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Employee Communications: The Real Work World
Touting the benefits and all of the positive work experiences is obviously a great thing, but what about showing a little more behind the curtain?
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