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Where to start?
Usually the issue with internal communications is too much noise – a busy environment with too many messages going out.
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Reporting remuneration
With Ed Milliband and David Cameron both scoring political points on the issue of executive remuneration right now, it will be interesting to see whether remuneration reports in the next batch of annual reports will take on a different shape, or at least in some way react to prominent public debate about executive pay.
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Award winning Changing Lives – Zephyr deliver internal comms ‘Bang for bucks’
We were pleased as punch to join NOMS (National Offender Management Service) in collecting top prize at last week’s CorpComms Awards for Best Live Event created for internal audiences.
The NOMS winning event was a two-part awards ceremony (held over…
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Sense making visuals
Back in April we did a bit of research into communications produced for the alternative vote referendum in the UK. We saw the referendum as a once in a generation opportunity for voters to change the voting system which should…
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Appealing to the personal with internal communications
We’ve read a couple of articles recently that have brought into focus the important role demographics play in understanding the findings of surveys.
Surveys, how they’re structured, how you motivate participation and how you analyse the findings, are of particular…
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Trust in magazines
Following our blog on Monday about the source employees favour most for information (http://www.wearezephyr.com/blog/2011/06/14/trusty-channels/), we were really interested to see this blog by Matt Hutton, a client of ours at Zephyr. It describes the benefits magazines can offer, in contrast…
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Trusty channels
A really informative discussion thread took place on LinkedIn last week with internal communication practitioners sharing research on how employees like to be communicated with. Under challenge was research conducted in the 1980s by Towers Perrin that concluded supervisors are…
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Brand spend on top
A snippet of research we got sent by The Marketing Forum got us talking this morning. To entice us along to sell our wares at their annual clients and suppliers jamboree they shared their findings on the top product and…
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Shareholder value vs stakeholder value
We’ve posted a couple of blogs recently about the purpose and content of annual reports.
The first reflected on the report produced by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) about why so much stuff goes…
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There’s more to employee engagement in CSR
It’s a lovely stat provided by Leap CR:
A 1% increase in productivity in the services sector would result in the UK GDP growing by £17bn.
The potential source of this increase in productivity? Employee engagement via corporate…
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CEOs of character
When it comes to leadership shots in corporate reports we’ve seen it all: Pink backgrounds, holding props, back to the shop floor, in meaningful conversation and, of course, straight to camera with various portions of head, shoulders, knees and toes,…
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Offender jouney infographic
Back in 2010 we asked by the Ministry of Justice’s National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to create a clear and concise visual platform for communication that would span the entire breadth of NOMS – one of the nation’s biggest Government…
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Starting conversations
The McCleod Review 2009, commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, established a direct correlation between employee engagement and organisational success and made recommendations for how effective engagement is sustained.
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Shop floor experience
Decathlon get my vote for their staff induction model.
I was chatting to a neighbour of mine who’d just left his job with a London Council as Buildings manager which he’d been doing for some years.
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2011 – a tricky year for staff retention in a climate of change
In the current climate of corporate restructures and M&As there are no big surprises in
The Employee Engagement Report 2011 from BlessingWhite Research.Some key findings:
• 31% are Engaged, and 17% are Disengaged.
• More…