Whether you view email newsletters as a valuable vehicle for company-wide updates or as noise that weighs down your inbox, the fact is that email isn’t going away, and neither is using email newsletters for internal communications. If your primary method of employee communication is by email or email newsletters, you’re not alone.
The term ’digital transformation‘ is a lot like love. It means different things depending on who you ask. IBM, a long-standing technology leader, offers this mouthful: “us AI, automation, hybrid cloud and other digital technologies to leverage data and drive intelligent workflows, faster and smarter decision-making, and real-time response to market disruptions.” Still kind of nebulous, huh?
Simpplr partnered with Ragan Communications to explore this theme in our 3 Approaches to the Strengthening Employee Experience eBook. We see that the workplace is in a time of change and that it may never return to the way it was before. The new remote reality has been proclaimed as something that will not go away.
Simpplr is introducing an innovative Live EX platform feature to transition into a new era of Internal Communications. The new reality is that the world of internal communications is evolving. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the employee experience. Many workers found themselves isolated, and leaders had to learn to institute technological changes to cross those divides and provide clarity around organizational priorities and values.
When things go wrong at work, what’s your first instinct? To blame your people? To blame your systems and workflows? Or to get curious about what went wrong? Trusting relationships don’t jump to blame when bad things happen. Your employees know that instinctively. If you‘re quick to blame others in a crisis, it can affect teamwork throughout the organization. Now, does that mean you should blindly trust everyone in every situation? Of course not.
Have you ever seen The Office? Manager Michael Scott’s absurd ideas to boost employee engagement range from laughable to cringeworthy, but they all fail for the same reason: He has no idea how to relate to the people he works with. It’s hilarious to watch, but there’s a lesson in it too. If you want to boost employee engagement, activities and gimmicks aren’t enough. You have to start with a foundation of trust, respect, and genuine human caring.
After so many podcasts, it is nice to return home. And by home, we mean back to the Simpplr family. Amanda Berry, Manager of Corporate Brand & Communications at Simpplr, has spoken with a bevy of subject matter experts in the Cohesion Podcast. In the 16th podcast, she was joined by Simpplr’s own Chief Technical officer, Parag Kulkarni.
With the rise of the hybrid and digital workplace, we must rethink the ever-changing workplace norms to foster an innovative and inclusive work environment. However, among new emerging workplace strategies and new technologies, sometimes it is crucial to start with the basics. Although “intranet” and “extranet” sound quite familiar, they both serve a unique purpose in your organization.
TikTok. Jokes written by computers. Empty offices in downtown Denver. What do these things have to do with business communications? Everything. Today’s business communications tools and apps are agile, engaging, and smarter than ever thanks to huge changes in technology and rapidly evolving work trends. How are these new technologies changing the face of business communications? Here are the top 10 business communication trends you don’t want to miss.
We’re excited to share our new Summer ‘22 release, Ida. This release introduces additional Live EX™ functionality, which combines the best of employee communications with the latest in employee experience technology. Here is a quick overview of this release: With this release, we also previewed some future capabilities that are entering an early adopter phase.
