The global PR industry is dealing with a pandemic of its own – how to retain key talent. Retaining talent is the number one challenge facing PR leaders. What are the reasons for this turnover in key PR staff, and what can be done about it? Find out 6 simple ways to make your PR employees happier, with greater employee retention.
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Even in this digital age, the most important deciding factor in your leadership aspirations is to remember that leaders who build strong career relationships earn more trust and achieve better results with all their stakeholders. This applies to communication leaders as well.
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Organizational socialization or onboarding is used in both marketing and staffing processes. When done right, it can help you retain more customers and employees. But what’s common to the process in these different fields? This article explains that effective communication is the common link.
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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.
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When you build a better employer brand you will gain a competitive edge as a potential employer 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. 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 caused by Covid-19, it’s all the more important that businesses work to strengthen their reputation as an employer and stay ahead of the competition.
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Most organizations these days need to hold virtual meetings as well as face-to-face ones. The problem is that not all employers have adapted to the changing business environment and have become accustomed to managing virtual teams. Many managers are still struggling to boost the effectiveness of video conferencing to strengthen their team’s productivity. So how do we get the most out of virtual team meetings?
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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 ...
Read moreManaging or supervising a hybrid PR team can be challenging when you want to achieve effective coordination and communication. It
Many people hate the idea of playing office/organizational politics. But staying out of such activities may hold back your career
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