Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Best practices for employee engagement: CEO communication

There are many lessons to learn from today’s business meltdowns and scandals. Regardless of what industry you’re in, we can all agree that: CEO drama can make or break a company. Take what happened to the Jefferies Bank and how CEO Rich Handler’s messy divorce was laid bare to the world. Add to that the fact that their company’s shares slid by 19%. When you’re the head of a company, every little part of your life is tied to the business.

Building belonging in a hybrid workforce ft. Jim O'Gorman, CPO of Included Health

In this episode, we sit down with Jim O’Gorman, Chief People Officer at Included Health. With a workforce that spans clinicians, hourly care advocates, engineers, and corporate teams, Jim shares how his organization is rethinking connection and community in a complex, hybrid environment. Together with Simpplr’s Chief People Officer, Miriam Connaughton, they explore why belonging is critical to business success, how to move beyond outdated culture playbooks, and what it takes to build genuine connection at scale.

Innovative employee retention strategies (with examples)

There’s no question that we’re living in turbulent times, and executing innovative employee retention strategies has become crucial as workers are leaving their jobs for new ones in droves. In January 2020, just before the pandemic hit, the World Economic Forum predicted that rapid technological changes would transform nearly half of all core skill sets within two years.

Building a Strong Teamwork Culture at Work

Talented employees feel isolated and disengaged in their roles. Simple projects become complex because teams work in silos. What should take weeks extends into months due to poor internal communication and coordination. This highlights the importance of building a culture of teamwork and collaboration in your workplace.

6 collaboration ideas for the workplace

Collaboration is essential for any organization’s success and productivity. Companies need to share vision and have an understanding of each other’s projects to achieve excellent business outcomes. Missed deadlines. Duplicate work. Teams operating in isolation while critical projects suffer. These aren’t just minor inconveniences — they’re costly consequences of poor workplace collaboration that can derail your organization’s success.

Internal Communications Best Practices

Good internal communication is essential in every organization. Whether you have a dedicated internal comms function or not, it's vital to have an efficient method for disseminating and managing employee communication. Oftentimes, we hear internal communications as a departmental function. But really, internal communication is about sharing and instilling critical information among people so that they can perform at their best.

Why performance management is broken - and what to do instead ft. Edie Goldberg

Performance reviews have long been a staple in the workplace, but are they truly helping people grow? In this episode, Simpplr’s Chief People Officer Miriam Connaughton sits down with Dr. Edie Goldberg, a future-of-work expert, organizational psychologist, and author. They explore why it’s time to move beyond outdated performance management practices and embrace a more impactful approach: performance enablement.

Employee experience platform vs. modern intranet: why you need both

Your employees are drowning in disconnected tools — Slack for messaging, SharePoint for files, BambooHR for benefits, Culture Amp for surveys — while your intranet sits largely unused. The problem isn't that you need more tools. A modern intranet should be paired with an employee experience platform to unify everything your workforce needs in one place.