3 Prevalent Communications Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
When you start putting together a blog like this one, the urge to start with some hackneyed phrase about ‘communication being the bedrock of any business’ is overwhelming. You know it to be true, it’s a pretty safe assumption that most business leaders know it to be true. So why then, this irresistible impulse to […]
10 Top Tips for Great Internal Comms
The evolution of internal comms is one of the more heartening aspects of the contemporary business story. Disappearing are the days of PCs smothered by an array of shouty, demanding, neon post-its and send-to-all emails decrying sales performances and incompletely filled time-sheets, signed off by a CEO no one ever sees. It’s not just that […]
Business Strategy: Getting it defined, and getting it executed
In any conversation about business, you’re never too far away from ‘strategy’ being discussed. In TV shows like the BBC’s ‘The Apprentice’, you’d be forgiven for thinking contestants were contractually obliged to refer to it in every other sentence. The ubiquity with which it features in such glib conversation, how to build a strategy and […]
Email: Getting the most out of the backbone of your business’ channel of communication: Part 1 – Internal
It’s official. With the average British worker receiving upwards of 10,000 emails a year, and some 74 trillion emails being sent worldwide each year, bar instant messaging, the trusty electronic mail is still the number one means of communicating on this little rock of ours we call Earth. When there is such an eye-watering abundance […]
Transient Trailblazers: The rise and rise of the Interim Manager
To say that running and managing a business is difficult, is not to say anything ground-breaking. Keeping track of stock, paying wages on time, building relationships with suppliers and customers, ensuring the tax man is happy, on and on it goes. Like spinning a hundred plates made of depleted uranium in a building that’s on […]