June 23rd, 2010
For most organizations employee engagement is not just about the majority of employees but also about leadership teams. This is the greatest challenge, because if you have a disengaged leadership team you have no chance of engaging employees. The reasons why are clear:
Employees look towards their leaders for direction – if they are not interested [...]
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January 31st, 2010
The greatest challenge any CEO faces with a new business strategy is getting traction. In terms of developing an engagement and change strategy, determing strategies for how to deal with leaders that publicly support the change but in reality don’t is the first issue you need to deal with.
Here are some reasons organizations fail to get traction [...]
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Tags: business strategy, Change Management, Employee Engagement
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October 6th, 2009
If there is one issue that is constantly raised by clients and workshop attendees about employee communication it is what to do about senior managers that continue to block your attempts to communicate with employees in your organization.
There are many steps you can take to ensure that management understand the value of your employee communication strategies and why they should be [...]
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August 6th, 2009
One of the critical factors that distinguish an organization from its competitors is the quality of service – the customer experience. Let’s take banks for example, basically they all offer exactly the same products, and at the same interest rates. So why do customers choose to deal with one bank over another and how can [...]
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July 26th, 2009
Energising a change fatigued workforce is one of the hardest things to do in change management. It is so much more than team building events and celebrations and more and more communication. Most change communication focuses on information about what changes will occur, when, by whom and so on. This doesn’t inspire [...]
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July 6th, 2009
Employee communication is an interesting field because it is based on the premise, among others, that the more tools we use to communicate with employees the greater chance that the message will be understood. This may be the case, however what CEO’s want more than ever before is that employees are engaged with that [...]
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June 16th, 2009
Business measurement is the key to strategic employee communication. Firstly you identify a business issue and then decide how you can measure the impact your employee communication strategy had on the improvement of that issue. The main point here is that you need to be clear about what business outcomes an employee communication strategy [...]
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June 1st, 2009
I don’t think I have ever met a leader that wasn’t serious about his or her intent to communicate the organization’s values. There it was on the list of what a leader must stand for, and the intent is admirable. It is the execution of the intent and the follow up behaviours that [...]
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May 10th, 2009
When you think about the millions of dollars your organization spends each year on IT programs of work, wouldn’t it be prudent knowing that employees actually understand and most importantly embrace the reason behind the changes?
If your approach to technological change is new skills training and employee communication strategies that include stakeholder management (translated briefings), [...]
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April 27th, 2009
Today I want to discuss a form of team briefing which is focussed on a formal communication cascading process via management. It has three levels, the first is the CEO who at his executive team briefings has to decide which items for that week he wants communicated to employees.
This is then communicated out to the CEO’s direct reports who then [...]
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