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Clinton tells the story of her roots

Employee Engagement: It's as easy as A B C ...

Employee Engagement: A Messy State Indeed - Only 1 in 3 Engaged says BlessingWhite

Generational expectations - implications for the world of work

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Interested in internal communications and storytelling? Why not join in: front line employees, supervisors, managers, leaders, HR professionals, communicators and storytellers...you are all welcome...just join in and contribute!

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Welcome!

I have created this Network to provide people with an interest in internal communications (and you can define that pretty much as you like) and corporate storytelling to share ideas and stories, raise issues, seek advice and explore!

I opened our doors so to speak on February 29, 2008 - a big leap for leap year....

The network is open to all - regardless of your role at work and I am hopeful we get a great mix of people representing communications, HR, managers and leaders, employees young and old and ...well, you get the point!

Welcome aboard...and spread the word!

Cheers, Ken

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300 plus engagement tips - Free for you!

Follow the link at the end of this note to download a PDF copy of the Keys of Employee Engagement: 12 Authors and 300 Ideas Embedded in Their Employee Engagement Alphabets. The contributors to this 39 page E-book from the Employee Engagement Network were: Tim Wright, Terrence Seamon, Steve Roesler, Lisa Forsyth, Raven Young, Robert Morris, David Zinger, Stephen McPherson, George Reavis, Ian Buckingham, and myself. This unique eBook was the brainchild of David Zinger......

Employee Engagement Keys in ABCs.pdf

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Multiple Brand Performance - The Challenge of Outsourced Service Centres

One of our newest members, Brenden Scott, left a message for Nicky that I felt deserved a level of prominance in our conversation. Brenden was asking for some thoughts and insight on how organizat... Continue

Tagged: strategy, branding, employee, call, centres

Started by Ken Milloy 15 hours ago

Internal Communications, HR and OD - bridging the divide
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I have long felt that there is a strong need for closer relationships between HR, Internal Communications and OD. Do you have this within your organizations? If yes, how was it achieved? Or perhaps... Continue

Tagged: internal, organizational, communications, human, resources

Started by Nicky Fried. Last reply by Jitka 1 day ago.

Is storytelling a fad?

"It's the latest fad." I hear this frequently. Sure I have an armful of statistics up my sleave to prove storytelling is simply a new face to a very old and successful means of communication. In a... Continue

Tagged: internal, behaviours, communications, behaviors, storytelling

Started by Nicky Fried May 13

Blog Posts

Travellers on a journey

I don’t know about you but my regular life seems to be filled to the brim. So when I’m thrown a curved ball – which happens – it brings with it a healthy dose of perspective. Right now I am sitting in an airport waiting for a delayed flight. I may not be able to deliver the workshop I am flying over for. I can choose to fret pointlessly or I can use my time productively. Not much of a choice! So here I am writing this blog and doing one of my favorite things – people watching. It’s not often w… Continue

Posted by Nicky Fried on May 14th, 2008 at 3:02pm — No Comments (Add)

Clinton tells her story

Hilary Clinton is re-energizing support in Pennsylvania. In part, according to an article by Steve Denning, because she is starting to tell the story of her own roots. Her grandfather lived in Pennsylvania and worked in a lace mill. Her father grew up there too and played football for Penn State. Our militaristic leadership model (and media portrayals) leads us to assume that the ideal leader must be… Continue

Posted by Nicky Fried on May 2nd, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments (Add)

The Connection Culture: a new source of competitive advantage - Free eBook available

Michael Lee Stallard, President and Co-Founder of E Pluribus Partners and former Chief Marketing Officer at Charles Schwab and Morgan Stanley, has posted a new eBook / manifesto “The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage” and made it available at… Continue

Posted by Ken Milloy on April 28th, 2008 at 10:40am — No Comments (Add)

Generational expectations and what that means for the world of work

My 15-year old daughter and I buy music in very different ways. She finds the notion that that someone would buy a physical object that contained a finite number of songs arbitrarily selected by someone else - rather quaint. My daughter is very clear about what her purchases and her expectations are high. Businesses are beginning to catch on - music sellers, networks and studios are adjusting to a new world view where the customer is not only right, but expects to be able to exercise that judgm… Continue

Posted by Nicky Fried on April 23rd, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments (Add)

Snap Conference Presentation

Movie.wmv I finally got my hands on the copy of my presentation from the 2nd Annual New Media Conference! I've extracted the bit where I talk about Snap, the internal communications delivery platform, so that you can understand better how it works. Hope you enjoy and drop me a line if you would like a demo or would like a fully functional demo. Plea… Continue

Posted by Jon on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments (Add)