At some companies, managers will instruct employees to post certain messages on their personal social accounts. It could be positive…
A look inside Pinterest’s popular employee AMA sessions with executives
One way Pinterest aims to keep its 5,265 full-time employees both informed and engaged is through one-hour sessions where they…
CCOs earn their moment in the sun; XBOX prepares for ‘the battle ahead’
So often in this column, we find ourselves reporting on the less fun aspects of internal comms: layoffs, missteps and…
Why communicators are trading employee engagement for employee experience
Internal communicators are getting more sophisticated by the day. They’re pressing beyond mere engagement — clicks, open rate and good vibes — to promoting and measuring real business objectives that…
So you’re the first communications hire. Here are 5 things to do right away.
Being a company’s first in-house communications hire can be overwhelming. There’s no playbook to follow, no predecessor to learn from,…
The communicator’s guide to preboarding
The gap between the “yes” to a job offer and an employee’s first day is one that internal communicators can…
7 tips to increase read time for internal emails
Internal communicators are asking employees to do something increasingly difficult: pay attention. Inboxes are crowded. Notifications are constant. Meetings, chats and…
Blood Cancer United took a ‘big risk’ trusting employees with its rebrand. It paid off.
In the early 2020s, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society could no longer ignore the limits of its brand. The first…
How communicators can learn to productively say no to requests
Every internal comms pro has run into the issue of asks coming down from leadership that throw a carefully planned…
Cloudflare CEO says company doesn’t need ‘measurers’; Wix chief says job cuts are directly due to AI
Greetings, comms pros! Let’s take a look at a few news stories from the last week and see what we…
