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Inventive Ways To Keep Employees In Touch and Engaged 

by Gina Butchin “Necessity is the mother of invention.” This year has created an unprecedented opportunity for professional communicators to flex our creativity and adaptability. Seemingly, overnight face-to-face meetings and chats around the copy machine were replaced with video conference meetings and conversations over instant message. As we embraced the ever-changing environment around us, we […]

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The Power of Employee Communications

In the age of coronavirus, employee communications is illustrating its value as the company glue. Oftentimes, it seems companies spend so much time, energy and money focusing on their customers through marketing and advertising efforts and not enough time on their most important audience: employees. Even before remote work was as pervasive as it is

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Making Employees Feel Part of the Team

I was walking with a co-worker when she acknowledged she should be back at her desk meeting a fast approaching deadline. She asked me why she didn’t care. I knew why. Shareholders and highly compensated executives whose holidays include potential bonuses are obvious stakeholders in a company’s success. But employees standing further down the corporate

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Employee Engagement or Whirlwind Romance?

Met online on at jobs website – seemed like a perfect match. Intense courtship (recruitment). Popped the question (the offer). Signed a prenup (acceptance letter, confidentiality agreement, new hire paperwork). Went on honeymoon (new hire orientation). Started to feel out of touch (didn’t feel appreciated; tried to meet unreasonable expectations; didn’t know important information). Tried

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