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mandy.thatcher@melcrum.comMarch 12, 2008
Dear Source Reader
A recent news story on the Internal Comms Hub reports on the publication of The Extra Mile, a new book on engagement. The book says that although top managers are confident when talking about engagement, figures show they're still under-achieving.
Frazzled engagement managers
The Hub recently spoke to Caryn Vanstone, business director, Ashridge Consulting, about the subject of engagement. She says her chapter in Melcrum’s Essential Techniques for Employee Engagement discusses the organizational factors that help people feel engaged. "These aren't the things engagement managers are paying attention to, which is why they're getting very frazzled," she says. read more
See you next week!
P.S. If you're keen to find out more about engagement techniques you can apply in your own organization, don't miss the Employee Engagement Conference in London in May.
Executives fear poor decisions from recession inexperience
The Internal Comms Hub, March 10, 2008
The UK and US economies are heading for recession but the majority of senior executives have no experience of management in hard times.
AT&T, Intel and HP abandon some telecommuting perks
The Internal Comms Hub, March 5, 2008
Intel, HP, AT&T and parts of the US government have all recently summoned some of their home workers for regular face time with their colleagues, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) last week.
Executives slow to social networking
The Internal Comms Hub, March 5, 2008
Yet 50% of US businesses believe social media is important to their brands.
Can you share benchmarking click rates on intranet news?
Melcrum's Communicators' Network, March 3, 2008
I’m trying to obtain metrics on click rates or read rates on news articles posted to a corporate intranet. I’ve been unable to find any good data. I would be interested in hearing from this group on the following…
Eight ways to communicate change
The Melcrum Blog, March 10, 2008
As Melcrum's Change Communication conference is taking place this week in London, here's one of the Hub's change communication-focused Q&A articles answered by the Hub's resident change communication expert, Helen Coley-Smith, available in full for free just this once on the Melcrum blog.
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