CEO Communication – introducing and integrating your leader: 106 Breakfast Event write-up
28 April 2025
Modern leaders have a lot that they have to take on their shoulders. From making tough calls to maintaining the vision of the organisation, it’s no mean feat to be the person that everyone turns to. But, for all their best traits, not all CEOs know how they come across or how to put their […]
The work is not mysterious or important
22 April 2025
We’re sure that someone over the last month has told you to watch Severance. With an almost inescapable press tour, the sci-fi show follows employees of a shady global company who have had a surgical procedure to ‘sever’ their mind, cognitively separating their work and personal lives. A bit dystopian, right? So it’s surprising to […]
Crisis? What crisis? The disengagement myth
04 March 2025
“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 […]
Employee Xperience Expo 2025
27 February 2025
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 […]
Coca-Cola’s experience shows how AI can work for and against you
05 December 2024
It’s December, meaning that Christmas advertising is in full swing, with companies throwing everything and the kitchen sink to secure advert of the season. One early contender has fallen short with Coca-Cola trying something new with their traditional “Holidays Are Coming” ad. They decided to use artificial intelligence. We all know how it plays out; […]
From cowboy to copilot: getting your hiring manager out of the saddle and into the cockpit
12 November 2024
You’re a recruiter, you do this day in, day out. You know what a good candidate experience looks like, you know what needs to happen to catch the best talent, you know what a fair hiring process looks like. Your hiring manager doesn’t. Your hiring manager has one hundred other things on their mind; they […]
Lessons On Leadership From Keir Starmer
02 September 2024
Leadership case studies come in all shapes and sizes. In Keir Starmer’s latest speechabout the incoming October budget, Starmer laid out a less than positive state of affairs, warning about an incoming ‘painful’ budget and that he’d be asking more of the British public in moving forward to more balanced times. It struck me that […]
Breaking down the stigma: IOIC’s AI And Future of Internal Communications Event
17 November 2023
Embracing a changing landscape has never been so accessible. This week, the humans of Team 106 journeyed to Riverside House to demystify the realities of AI with help from a recent white paper from the Institute of Internal Communications. As communicators, we were keen to learn what fresh insights they’d mined at the forefront of […]
Building belonging in five steps
23 October 2023
It’s a strange world right now. Conflicts in Ukraine and Middle East, inflation still high, the chill winds of recession threatening, and yet employment is still high and the number of vacancies in the UK is just shy of a million. In the midst of this turbulent environment, there seems to be a tendency for […]
Reimagining the Workforce: 106 at the Future of Work Conference
13 October 2023
The future of work has never been so bright! This week, Team 106 headed over to The Brewery bright and early for a jam-packed Wednesday, full of brilliant, and at times unexpected, insights on how we can mould the future of employee engagement. From some of the leaders shaping the world of internal comms, we […]
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