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Top Internal Communication Trends 2024: What the Experts Think
What's in store for employee communications and IC professionals in 2024? Another year of uncertainty? Of course. But a key part of the role of the comms professional is to anticipate what's coming down the tracks and to prepare their organization's leadership accordingly. We asked IC experts worldwide to look ahead to 2024, and here's what they had to say.
How digital solutions deliver unparalleled patient-centered care to benefit patients and staff
By Tim Vaughan Patient-centered care augmented by impactful patient engagement is a significant aspect of the modern healthcare journey. Healthcare consumers desire a care experience that reflects their personalized needs and meets their unique circumstances with a growing shift toward patients seeking an increased connection with their care team as active participants in their care.
26 Employee Wellness Programs, Ideas & Examples in the Workplace | Poppulo
Employee wellness programs are undertaken by an employer in order to improve employees’ physical and mental well-being and also to help individual workers overcome specific health-related problems. They are about building healthier habits that empower employees, teams, and businesses to be their most satisfied, healthiest, and motivated selves. One study indicated that 61% of employees agree that they have made healthier lifestyle choices because of their company’s wellness program.
IEEFA Australia: Over 2000 submissions to Viva Energy’s ‘potentially dangerous’ floating LNG terminal for Geelong
Opponents describe the project as ‘environmentally risky’ and ‘economically unwarranted’ Geelong Grammar, Geelong Cats and the Victoria National Parks Association joined local school children, nurses and doctors to send more than 2000 submissions on Viva Energy’s plan to build a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Geelong, with the majority opposing the project described as “potentially dangerous”, “environmentally risky” and “economically unwarranted”.
Council Post: Struggling To Retain Employees And Attract New Talent? Try Improving Employee Communications
Tim Vaughan is Head of Content at FWI | Poppulo, a global leader in employee communications technology. getty Talk to any business leader right now and they’ll tell you the same thing: They’re struggling to retain employees and attract new talent. Rates of employees resigning are so high that it’s being variously called: the Great Resignation or the Great Attrition. No matter what it’s called, the end result is the same.
Council Post: Why And How To Treat Employees Like Customers Using Omnichannel Communications
Tim Vaughan is Head of Content at Poppulo. getty Here’s a question for employee communicators: If companies with a laser focus on customer experience can outperform those that don't, shouldn’t you focus your comms strictly through the experience lens of your customers — your employees? In 2017, Forrester found that customer-obsessed companies had the highest median three-year sales growth.
9 steps for developing your internal communications plan
There’s plenty of work involved, but the payoffs are important: efficiency, collaboration, budget dollars and, potentially, a seat at the decision-making table. Here is a nine-step approach to creating your internal communications plan: 1. Measure your activity. Measurement transforms internal communications from a shot in the dark to an effective management tool. To plan ahead, you must measure your performance to date: What were the high-value and the low-value activities?
9 steps for developing your internal communications plan
There’s plenty of work involved, but the payoffs are important: efficiency, collaboration, budget dollars and, potentially, a seat at the decision-making table. Ragan Insider Premium Content Here is a nine-step approach to creating your internal communications plan: 1. Measure your activity. Measurement transforms internal communications from a shot in the dark to an effective management tool.
Weekly Round-Up: 5 Leadership Communication Lessons, How to Be a Leader, Why Introverts Make Great Leaders, Making Internal Comms Interactive, How to Clarify Your Corporate Strategy
Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 5 Priceless Leadership Communication Lessons Learned the Hard Way By Art Petty (@artpetty via @SmartBrief), SmartBrief Five lessons the author learned – sometimes the hard way – over two decades of leading and guiding others.
Isuzu teaches you how to be a weekend warrior
When you’re poised to steer your four-wheel drive on to a sharpish, rocky descent — one you’ve never seen before — it’s handy to have a trusted guide for the way down. Enter David Wilson, whose reassuring voice comes over the two-way. “Engage four-wheel drive low-range, first gear, turn wide then tight right around the outcrop. Then aim for me.” At a crawl, we do just that, stop short of running over the instructor’s toes then sweep away as he directs us off the hill and on to the next climb.
Robo taxis: The next step in autonomous cars but not the last
The man plotting Nissan’s autonomous vehicle strategies got most of his inspiration in places with few cars and no roads. Chief technology director Maarten Serhuis works in Silicon Valley but relies on the ideas he gained from trials in the deserts of Australia and Utah, and the North Pole, when he was a lead researcher for NASA Mars missions. media_cameraMars rover: Nissan man’s NASA team also worked in deserts and North Pole.
Nissan says you are buying a battery on wheels not a car
Nissan has its new Leaf coming in August but the company’s global electric vehicles boss doesn’t want to sell you an EV. Nic Thomas reckons you should buy a battery on wheels. It’s the same car. Buyers of the $50,000 Leaf EV, Thomas says, can view it as a mobile power storage pack that eliminates fuel costs and can cut household electricity bills. At the end of the vehicle’s life, there is still recycling value in the battery pack.
Racetrack for tourists and tragics
The banked high-speed curve behind me, the short straight dealt with and the esses steered deftly, I reckon I’m doing OK punting the Subaru WRX around the track. Then the bloke who’s been directing me says, “Pull up on the left under the bridge.” So much for hot-lap glory, I figure, here comes a chat about using too much brake/fuel/track.
Skoda Scala: Replacement for Rapid hatch due in 18 months
Upstart brand Skoda is promising product fireworks, putting a VW Golf-size hatch on sale here in the next 18 months and further engaging in Australia’s “SUV offensive” with a small crossover to follow. The Scala hatch, a replacement for the Rapid, is tipped to be a slightly slimmer version of the Vision RS concept from last month’s Paris motor show. Dealers will open order books at the end of next year for deliveries in the middle of 2020.
Nissan Navara dual-cab: Extra value special editions
As the the top half-dozen 4WD utes in the segment emphasise their work-and-play flexibility, Nissan is aiming for the hip-pocket to get sales traction for the Navara, bumping along midfield at No.8 ahead of Chinese and German contenders and US pick-ups. The Navara ST Black Edition bolts on about $8000 worth of tough-looking extras, anticipating what many buyers would pick from the accessories menu anyway.
Range Rover Sport SVR is fast on track and slick in mud
FEN END. Sounds like a quaint corner of the garden of England until you hear, then see, the angry iridescent critters circling its centre. These are Range Rover Sport SVRs in 2018 specification and palette - and Fen End is home to a Land Rover test circuit. We've come in a fresh convoy for hot (and supervised) laps in the supercharged V8s, howling along the main straight to nudge 240km/h, backing off for the banked turn then launching again.
RANGE ROVER SPORT SVR: TESTED ON TRACK
FEN END. Sounds like a quaint corner of the garden of England until you hear, then see, the angry iridescent critters circling its centre. These are Range Rover Sport SVRs in 2018 specification and palette — and Fen End is home to a Land Rover test circuit. We’ve come in a fresh convoy for hot (and supervised) laps in the supercharged V8s, howling along the main straight to nudge 240km/h, backing off for the banked turn then launching again.
Design chief admits Toyotas were boring and vanilla
THERE has never been a better time, says Calty studio boss Kevin Hunter - reiterating a favourite pitch of our Prime Minister - to be a Toyota designer. The way the president of Toyota's North American design centre tells it, this is down to philosophical and mechanical factors. First, company boss Akio Toyoda has declared it should no longer make boring cars, a directive Detroit-born Hunter embraces.
How to Take the Fear Out of Measurement and Prove Your Internal Communication Value
Every internal communication professional has heard it before: what gets measured gets done. It’s something Jo Hall explores with refreshing practicality in her “Essential IC Measurement Workbook” for Poppulo. Measurement is important to business leaders because they want to hear informed opinions—opinions informed by hard data, and not based merely on guesswork.
Range Rover P400e plug-in hybrid review: the 4WD that comes with a plug
It’s latest release, the plug-in P400e, can waft through muddy fields and streams without disturbing the serenity, thanks to an electric motor that delivers 51km of emissions-free motoring on a single charge. For the rest of the journey, the motor teams with a four-cylinder turbo petrol from Jaguar Land Rover’s Ingenium range, as used in the Evoque. Together the 2.0-litre turbo (221kW/400Nm) and the 85kW electric motor produce a healthy 297kW of power and a stump-pulling 640Nm of torque.
Toys for Tots coordinators thank community - TheNewsDispatch.com: Opinion
As we close the reports for the 2015 campaign of Toys for Tots, there are many people and organizations that we would like to mention for their invaluable assistance and hard work in organizing fundraisers and donating toys and/or money, thus helping to make this year's campaign a success. A huge thank you to Meijer and their employees for their generous donation for the purchase of toys and also for their help in organizing the shopping sprees for other donors to our 2015 campaign.
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