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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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; […]