How do we know we’re building values that really reflect the lived experience and aspirations of our people? 60% of employees don’t know or don’t connect with their company values. Icology’s webinar offered some practical tips for mitigating this widespread hidden disconnect. Led by Chuck Gose, ‘The Hidden Disconnect In Workplace Culture’ featured Ann Melinger, […]

How Employer Branding, Values and Purpose can fill the DE&I gap for Big Law Firms. For a long time now, law firms have made a big play to show the diversity of their teams – or at the very least the ambition of their diversity activity. Has it made a material difference? There seems to […]

Imagine this, you have just graduated after three challenging yet rewarding years at university, ready and eager to take on the working world. You are ready to hang up the textbooks, late night studying, the tracksuits and Ugg boots in exchange for early morning commutes, loafers and smart casual. You have been told at school […]

How we dress is an important expression of how we identify or how we would like to be seen. Changing office is like being asked to wear a different uniform –it can signify a homogenisation of culture post-merger, a loss of identity. And when there is fear that we might have to change how we […]

As internal communicators, our to-do lists can get absolutely out of control. With tighter budgets and smaller teams, a lot of us are gaming out how to cut through huge swathes of tasks alone. Luckily, Joanna Parsons partnered with WorkVivo to do just that in her webinar about Managing Your Comms Workload last week. Current […]

“We’re in a disengagement crisis!!” You’ve probably heard the statistic: 62% of employees are not engaged, and 15% are actively disengaged (Gallup). But are we, the comms cohort, who cried ‘crisis’? What do people actually mean by disengagement? Define engagement? Depending on who you ask, employee engagement can mean multiple things, but by and large […]

Like salmons swimming upstream, flocks of employer brand practitioners and internal communicators descended on the ExCel venue for this year’s Employee Xperience Expo! Employee experience can mean a million different things, sometimes within the same organisation, it was a great opportunity to think strategically about how to improve retention, efficiency, and engagement and learn from […]

From new engagement strategies to transformational overhauls, internal communication is anything but static in 2025. Blink’s webinar The Future of Internal Comms 2025+ raised interesting points about the state of internal communication today and what issues need to be met to build future-proofed systems that put the employee experience front and centre. This panel discussion […]

Deanne Raseta is a force in the comms world. From her work at organisations like PayPal, Colt and Aviva to her leadership and coaching qualifications – she knows how people tick. It’s unsurprising, then, that we had a packed house at our Change Comms Breakfast event last Thursday at which Deanne shared the essential principles […]