Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

May 2023

Strategic Thinking is More Important Than Wordsmithing with Tina Hawkins

This episode features an interview with Tina Hawkins, Senior Director of Internal Communications at the NBA. In this episode, Amanda and Tina discuss aligning values externally and internally, keeping communication casual, and how to hold space for employees and leaders to have critical conversations.

Proven strategies for increasing employee retention rates

Today’s job market is fiercely competitive, and keeping the best employees on your team is definitely a top-of-mind concern. After all, a business incurs significant expense, decreased productivity, and damage to customer service when there’s a high employee turnover rate. So, we have some proven strategies to share that will help increase retention rates and prevent this drain on resources!

Lessons from the Guardians of the Galaxy on how to overcome communication barriers

How on Earth, or anywhere else, do aliens communicate with each other? Most of us struggle to master a second language, so how do people from different worlds communicate? Suspending our disbelief momentarily, there’s a lot to be learned from how these creatures overcome communication barriers.

Building Trust with Executives with Gudio Ditto, Sr. Manager of Internal Communications, Coursera

This episode features an interview with Guido Ditto, Senior Manager of internal communications and employer brand at Coursera. Guido works with Coursera executives and teams to inform, engage, and connect colleagues around the world.

The Ideal Employee Experience, with Stephanie Briggs, Director of Employee Experience at ivanti

This episode features an interview with Stephanie Briggs, Director of Employee Experience at ivanti. In this episode, Amanda and Stephanie discuss who owns and is responsible for creating the ideal employee experience in an org and how storytelling makes for powerful communications.

Driving engagement through communications with Olga Skouteli, Head of Culture & Engagement at Lilium

This episode features an interview with with Olga Skouteli, Head of Culture and Engagement at Lilium. In this episode, Amanda and Olga discuss breaking down silos, nuances of language, and their hopes for internal communications in 2023.

17 essential internal communication tools for the digital workplace

Ever since the father of modern communications, Alexander Graham Bell, gave humanity its first telephone, the world has changed. We now carry the world in our pockets on our smartphones and can communicate with anyone, anywhere around the globe. Today, we have so many tools that some are devoted solely to internal communication. And we're sharing 17 that you'll want to pay attention to below!

Introducing: Simpplr's AI-powered Employee Listening

Employee engagement is critical in our ‘quiet quitting’ world, but companies struggle to understand and connect meaningfully with an increasingly distributed workforce. This is where our real-time Employee Listening comes in. By combining passive and active listening with AI, Simpplr can help deliver and improve the workplace and employee experience.

From bootcamp to business to being yourself at Branch

How does one go from bootcamp to business to being yourself? We recently covered all three with Pratiksha Patel, Chief People Officer at Branch, a home and auto insurance company. Pratisksha shared their intentional employee experience process and how they build and inspire top talent.

How to build an employee advocacy strategy: Best practices

Employee advocacy happens when employees talk or post positively about their company or its products and services—and their praise is just naturally promotional. A purposeful employee advocacy strategy helps facilitate the creation and distribution of this praise, combining it with targeted, quality content that amplifies company awareness and market perception.

The top 7 challenges when training deskless workers

In our post-pandemic reshuffle, employees with jobs that are not performed in an office are often singled out in discussions about the future of work. This makes sense, as most of the world's workforce performs crucial tasks outside of an office, and it’s time we collectively adapt to these challenges!

Improving EX through trust, communications, and a human-centered approach

In our most recent cohesion podcast, we share the inspiring career journey of Barbara Massa, Executive VP of Chief of Business Operations for Mandiant. With over 20 years of experience, she has played a significant role in taking a company public, and successfully executing several acquisitions—and she had great insight to share!

How $70 million Series D funding will accelerate our EX innovation

I’m proud to announce that Simpplr has raised $70 million in Series D funding led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from existing investor Norwest Venture Partners. Additional investors include Tola Capital and Salesforce Ventures. This new round of funding supports the growth of our AI-powered employee experience (EX) platform as we continue to lead the market and innovate ahead of the curve.