Communication is at the core of every organization. In fact, there is a school of thought that believes communication is the organization rather than an organization being the entity within which communication occurs. Adopting this view means that all employees are responsible for communication, not just top management and communication professionals. This article explores the feasibility of professional communicators providing internal communication consulting services to business units.
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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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In the COVID era, all teams need to adopt certain practices to reach their full productivity potential. Here are six important initiatives you and your team can implement to reach peak productivity.
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Employee safety needs to be taken seriously, whether your organization employs a handful of people, or dozens, or even hundreds. “No business strategy can be effective if it doesn’t embed employee health, safety, and well-being into its DNA. You’ve made a foundational promise to your workers to take care of them,” we are reminded. Let us also remember that good internal communication plays a key role in creating a safer workplace.
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If you want a high performing organization, you need to engage and inspire your middle managers. They are the key to employee engagement. This is even more important now during COVID-18. But middle managers need good lines of communication from top management. This article explains how you can improve middle manager communication.
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Organizations need to ride out tough times. They need to adapt to changed conditions, and they need to communicate to all key stakeholders what the changed priorities are during difficult periods. The global financial crisis was clearly one of those times – and now the world is dealing with the repercussions of the COVID-19 crisis. To build more positive relationships with your stakeholders, make sure you communicate about the 5 big organizational questions.
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Employees give feedback on the communication they want in the workplace. However, these expectations are not often met. Internal communication teams continue to perpetuate the lack of feedback to employees about their responses to surveys – and therefore it would seem that management doesn’t give the results much priority. Nevertheless, five key elements have been identified as the most influential in shaping employees’ opinions about the state of communication within their organization.
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Research consistently shows that employee satisfaction leads to customer satisfaction. With this in mind, you can initiate a program to increase employee satisfaction, because this will lead to positive organizational performance regardless of its relationship with employee engagement. This article explains how good communication improves satisfaction for employees and therefore customers.
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We all have a fundamental need to belong. One way to achieve this is to connect people’s work with outcomes. When people know their work has a meaningful, positive impact on others, they are happier and more productive than those who don’t make a connection. It gives all involved a warm feeling when these initiatives are taken to increase workers’ positive perceptions of the impact of their work. Making workers aware of their job impact is beneficial to all involved.
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