Getting the message
Employee engagement and the employee experience are currently hot topics for businesses. Internal communications are a key part of this - and getting it right ranks highly for today's workforce. My friend and colleague, Treby Swingler, once told me about a company she almost worked with. “They wanted to rebrand,” she said, “and their answer was to spend many thousands of pounds asking different design agencies, one after the other, to come up with a new logo to ‘jig-jog’ them
The flex approach to writing staff magazines
Powerful writing only needs to be read once. It’s about simplicity, directness and understanding your audience. We have written for sales assistants, dentists, prison officers, accountants, head teachers, builders, chefs, hotel staff and bank employees and our benchmark is always the same – do they get it first time round? Researching and understanding client culture and aspiration is the first thing we do. Creating a language that builds, illustrates or reinforces their visi
Staff magazines - are you going digital?
Magazines and messages are now delivered seamlessly to desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones. In our increasingly digital and connected world, what does this mean for your staff communications? Digital publishing has come a long way since the digitisation of the Declaration of Independence by Project Gutenberg in 1971. The 2000s saw the mass expansion of eBooks and online magazines and newspapers, but already PDF versions of print are being left behind with the advent of
