Tag: Communications

With more than 25,000 members and counting, ALI’s Internal Communications Best Practices group is growing each day. We offer a platform that allows experts to share best practices, lessons learned, and trends that shape the world of employee communications, engagement and employee experience. The realm of communication is ever changing and evolving, so it’s important to stay up-to-date on patterns,

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When it comes to building a welcoming and equitable workforce, there are 4 vital lessons any organization can take. The first step towards creating an equitable, anti-racist workplace is understanding the difference between equity and equality. We typically see corporations diving up resources equally. And, if that’s the case, we assume equality equals fairness. However, that’s not the case. Organizations

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Source: Jeff Corbin, LinkedIn. Any functional business can agree that the internet offers a wide selection of communication application tools to consider. By offering so many options, pinpointing which one(s) are the best fit for your organization can feel like a challenge. Firstly, what may work for one group may not be an affective choice for another. From Task/Project Management,

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Written by Leslie Stevens, guest author for the Integral blog and toolkit #4. Leslie is a Masters-in-Residence Scholar at NYU Steinhardt’s Media, Culture and Communication program, DEI researcher, and friend of the firm.  Diversity now means something completely different than it did a few weeks ago, when most of us still occupied the same physical space every day. As a

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There has been a seismic shift in the workforce in early 2020. Most office buildings have partially closed. A majority of employees are now working from out of their homes, and thoughts are trending towards permanently staying that way. The workplace culture you used to have is now attempting to be recreated over video calls. But is hosting a virtual

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ALI Conferences announces new ALI Star of the Month ALI Conferences is thrilled to say that we have a number of speakers, hosts, and attendees who have loved our virtual and in-person conferences, and who continue to attend year-after-year to learn new, updated insights and strategies on employee experience, communications, human resources, and more. To thank these Conference Community members,

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Updated: March 30, 2020 We’ve seen a lot of articles lately about the symptoms and reactions to the Coronavirus, or COVID-19, but what about your employees? As the weeks go on, we are hearing from more organizations that they are restricting travel and extending work from home days. To help you frame and implement your own organization’s procedures, we’ve collected

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Scott Miller is the Director of Strategic Communications at Columbia University – Information Technology and he will be speaking at the 7th Annual Strategic Internal Communications – West conference, January 28-30 in San Francisco. Scott sat down with us to tell us about his upcoming session and himself as a communicator. What do you hope your peers will take away

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The research on employee engagement supports what most of us already know intuitively: employees are more engaged when employers value their contributions and communicate that value in specific, visible ways. Engagement matters because engaged employees are more productive workers. Companies with successful engagement strategies enjoy 33% higher profits and 51% lower turnover rates. If higher workforce engagement is one of

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Written by Steve Ritter, originally published on the Newsweaver blog on December 12, 2016. The ability to collaborate effectively within teams is one of the greatest tests of communication. Growing up, most of our education is skewed toward individual success. We learn to set goals, take initiative, and budget our time based on our own pace and work ethic. We

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