Love these examples from Dunelm and Travis Perkins. With hybrid working arguably the biggest change programme internal communicators will ever face, building belonging and creating emotional connections is absolutely key. Prioritise people, not policy and process.

In "high-control" workplaces, information gets pushed up to authority: senior leaders make decisions on the basis of information. In organisations that enable their people this is flipped: decision-making authority is pushed down to those with the information. By Sketchplanations

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This picture for me sums up the whole idea and importance of #belonging. A culture of belonging leads to growth and innovation. It's really this simple. #RPSIandD #inclusion #Diversity #Belonging Quote Tweet

Love this. HT Geoffrey Colon 👁️ 🤘🎙️

there has never been a better use of this meme

Some essential tips here on how leaders and managers can help staff be on board with change 👇

Who’s your audience? #comms

Strategic communications? #comms

Strategic narrative and key message crafting are key skills for any communicator. This advice on @comms2point0 from Jude Tipper and Andrew Kirby1 is excellent 👇#communication #CommsHero

Thanks commsHERO for inviting me to speak today, the 1st day of #CommsHero week🙏 Thanks also to everyone for your comments-questions about stratigising your communications. Do DM me if anything wasn’t clear👩‍💻 Now I can enjoy the rest of the week’s talks, and the after-party!🎉

I'm doing a lot of thinking about the spread and scale of change currently & how we move from a mindset of "rolling out" pilot projects to enabling change in systematic ways though people in complex systems. So I appreciated this graphic via @LouWaters_QI & Amar Shah

All the red flag 🚩 Tweets are making me smile. Hard to choose just one! Common internal comms red flags I see: Comms strategy not aligned with biz strategy. IC team can’t articulate what IC is (and isn’t) or purpose of channels. Zero measurement, or only output focused.

The power of framing your request: how Danny Boyle got 60,000 people to keep a secret In How Not to Plan by Binet & Carter

Matrix working: great in principle but research shows it often fails in practice. Ways to make your matrix work inc: 1) Relaunch the team 2) Appoint a DRI (directly responsible individual) 3) Get leaders talking 4) Eliminate the unnecessary gallup.com/workplace/3549… V Bob Sutton

This is what great leadership looks like! 👇

"Hybrid working isn’t about rules about two days here and three days there. It’s not about the location of where we work either really. It’s about a need to fundamentally change how we think about work." #internalcomms #hybridworking #strategy redefiningcomms.com/the-pandemic-r…

“Internal Communicators safeguard the truth. We need to split our time into thirds: one third listening, one third learning/advising and one third doing.” Naomi Jones I Chart.PR speaking at #PRWInternal PRWeek Hub

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