Most major change initiatives involve multiple steps and complex context. Although we advocate giving employees all the information you can about an upcoming change, we don’t advise telling them everything, all at once. That can be an overwhelming amount of...
How mergers and acquisitions change the internal communications strategy Fast growth brings great change to organizational cultures, and it generally puts pressure on effective internal communications. And when the growth comes through mergers, acquisition or being...
You can’t always help company rumors from starting, but you can control how to address them. Company rumors arise for a number of reasons: change in management, acquisitions, promotions, layoffs, etc. But whether positive or negative, you don’t want a fabricated or...
An employer brand is more than a witty line and nice design. Done well, it serves as the communications anchor to a company’s vision and values. We were debating the value of a new employer brand with the Human Resources team of a large company this week. The...
Change is hard. In a Tribe study of employees in large companies nationwide, 84% indicated that communications around major change in their companies were handled poorly. What do employees want? They want to know the business reasons behind the change. They want to...
