Stakeholders can supply focus and drive, but their personal lens can warp the clarity of communications.
leadership
Simple communications
Communications
It’s something about being authentic, clear and concise yet thoughtful and human
Everything I know about project management I learnt from Kevin McCloud on Grand Designs
Intranet, Raves
‘Grand Designs’, a television programme that follows the travails of passionate, amateur, house builders says a lot about how projects go awry.
The secret second reason why your intranet news goes unread
Intranet
We know the number one reason people find your intranet superfluous to requirements; irrelevant information. The ‘news’ stories are often Company focussed (what ‘we’ need to tell ‘you’, the little people) rather than ‘people focussed’ (what ‘you’ need to know to get stuff done).
We know that if an intranet, or the content, ain’t useful then it ain’t used! But what about the secret, number two, insidious reason?
I know why my cage bears strings
Rants
It’s not that I’m trapped in my role, my job, it’s that I know what it would take to progress, and I don’t like the strings attached.
Jedi mind trick web design
Design, Intranet, Rants
“This is the intranet design you’ve been looking for…”
Getting it done and choosing success
Minutiae, Philosophy
I’ve come to know three things about getting big things done. So many people have told us what success is built around, but doesn’t success, and even happiness, come down to these three things? Nothing easy, but simple enough yeah?
Good internal communications makes line managers look good
Communications
Research shows that managers at any level will be perceived well if they pass on information and communicate with their team.
Don’t read about internal communications
Communications, Rants
Wedge wants to join a professional body of communicators, he really does – but he doesn’t want to solely drink from the kool-aid. Read more! Immerse yourself in media and marketing – get outside Internal Communications or risk becoming stale.
The glass ceiling within Internal Communications
Communications
Who’s the director of Communications in your company? Is the director male or female? Are more females found within Human Resources than within the Board Room?
Blending mass emails into your communications
Communications
Mass emails are overused within the company, but when blended with other channels…
Words without meaning
Communications, Rants
I’m pleased to announce, that going forward, I will ensure I don’t write like this!
Disclaimers are weak, consider a ‘claimr’
Communications, Minutiae, Raves
Don’t use a weak-assed disclaimer – claim your words and thoughts with a claimr!
Back to work, but with what attitude?
Communications, Philosophy, Raves
Wedge notices that the city, and the office, is preternaturally quiet. Are people absent just because it’s Friday and after New Year? Anyway, Wedge looks at goals and values.