Many employees have been feeling left out as their work environment changed due to the pandemic. The problem stems mostly from poor workplace communication from top management, HR, and frontline leaders. Providing reliable and meaningful communication helps everyone feel connected and satisfied – and employee engagement strengthens. This article explains how to communicate better with employees.
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Research shows employees are your most important stakeholder group. They have the power to drive your operations forward or to destroy your vision. Engaged employees are essential to for organizational success, and effective communication is essential to employee engagement. Find out here the 9 reasons communication is essential to employee engagement.
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Maintaining friendships at work boosts happiness and productivity. Cultivating these close relationships is even more important now as COVID-19 has led to workplace burnout in every country, and much remote work. The research is extremely clear: We get our sense of purpose and our intrinsic sense of motivation through relationships. Read in this article how it is vital to preserve positive relationships when working remotely.
Read moreBy Jennifer Lisson Strengthening your employer brand will give you a competitive edge and positively impact your company’s talent acquisition — 95% of job candidates say a company’s reputation matters a lot to them when considering whether to take a position, a recent Employer Branding Insight Report reveals. Moreover, 50% of candidates would never work for a company with a bad reputation, even if it offers a higher salary. In the current economic uncertainty ...
Read moreA few years ago, virtual team meetings were common only for IT firms and startups. But COVID-19 has changed our world, and today most businesses choose to hold virtual meetings instead of face-to-face ones. The problem is that not all employers have adapted to the changes and have become accustomed to managing virtual teams. Many managers are still struggling to boost the effectiveness of online communication and improve their team’s productivity. So how do ...
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CEOs must lead the way with employee engagement. Your CEO and senior managers are key to employee satisfaction and engagement. In turn, these are key better organizational performance. These times of uncertainty caused by the global impact of COVID-19 and its variants make employee satisfaction and engagement even more vital. Read more about it here.
Read morePositive psychology experts are finding that the frequency of small, positive acts is crucial in business and personal relationships. Psychologist John Gottman, author of several books on relationships, pioneered research on marriage, which suggested there is a ‘magic ratio’ of 5 to 1 in the effectiveness of positive and negative interactions. Prof. Gottman (photo at right) found that marriages are more likely to succeed when the couple’s interactions are near a 5 to 1 ...
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Major studies around the world have consistently found that good internal communication leads to stronger employee engagement and therefore better organizational performance. Read the secrets in this longform article on how good internal communication creates impressive results.
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Communicators hold a powerful position by influencing the way things are done at work. Effective communicators establish a two-way flow of information for employees, and they also influence managers and executives to communicate better, which leads to stronger employee engagement. In fact, good communication can hugely lift employee engagement.
Read moreMost organizations of a reasonable size fall well short of maintaining happy workers and achieving high productivity. In my own observations over 25 years, a top employer is rare to find. Despite great advances in management training and in technology, most companies still don’t succeed – for many reasons. How does your employer rate? And what can you do as a communicator to improve it? What makes a great workplace? The Great Place to ...
Read moreThe COVID pandemic has opened up unexpected business opportunities for small PR firms. On one hand, large organizations have laid
Workplace communication has become a real challenge because the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted most workers to their homes in either
Nowadays, many employees feel left out by the changes in their work environment. Around the world, the work environment has
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