Internal Comms Insights Monthly – October Edition
Another busy month has come to an end. Let’s wrap it up with our top news, insights, and thought-leadership articles that focus on internal communication best practices, accelerating business performance, and elevating the world’s communication leaders.
The results of a recent study should serve as a well-timed reality check for IC pros going into 2023.
Some of the top-line figures are alarming including:
Find out what to do about these alarming figures.
If you’re a startup or smaller company with a small core team and a long history of working closely together, your internal comms may have been somewhat on-the-hoof.
And that didn’t matter before the pandemic - because, when issues arise with a small team, you can call an impromptu meeting at the drop of a hat. With the changing world, the need to change our ways to scale IC has also changed.
Here are four helpful tips to scale internal comms today:
Learn how to scale up your company’s internal comms.
Working with the C-Suite is considered one of the biggest challenges facing internal communication leaders today.
To shed some light on the issue, we asked an internal communications consultant and an in-house internal communications professional to discuss the topic.
Read part 1 of their intriguing 3-part conversation to learn:
Read the discussion between our senior strategic advisor, Mike Klein and IC pro, Thomas Grøndorf.
In part 2 of our Working with the C-Suite blog series, the intriguing conversation between Mike Klein, our Senior Strategic Advisor, and Thomas Grøndorf, a 20+ year communications veteran, continues with a focus on the importance of:
Read part 2 of this discussion.
How big of an organization do you need to be to have a professional approach to internal communication?
There’s no easy answer but our Senior Strategic Advisor, Mike Klein, explores this topic at length, covering points like:
Learn about the tipping point for small businesses.
After communicating with the internal comms pros from small startups to large, multinational corporations daily, we’ve found one similarity: they lack the tools they need to deliver relevant, timely communications to employees and measure business impact.
At Sparrow Connected, we are on a mission to change this by arming internal comms teams with the right technology.
Here are just a few of the benefits of our platform:
Learn more about the benefits of Sparrow Connected.
Did you know that what leaders and employees in a small business expect from communication differs across many fronts?
Paired with emerging demands for radical corporate transparency, this leaves many SMBs confused about when and how to communicate.
Here are four tips from the guide on how to improve internal comms at your company:
Learn more about improving internal comms at your company.