December 2005 - Posts

• HR, Employee Communications & posters

  Earlier this week there was a note sent to an HR Network group I belong to asking what employee communications was. Do we need someone to do it? More specifically, they asked, how successful are posters of Values as employee communications? The questioner Read More... Posted 23 December 2005 20:09 by David Ferrabee | (Comments Off)

• The awkwardness of Christmas communications

  There are varying traditions around the Christian world about what to do at Christmas. But as the world gets smaller... the business world in particular... traditions and business get increasingly awkward. This year we sent our emails saying we'd contributed Read More... Posted 21 December 2005 10:21 by David Ferrabee | (Comments Off)

• Guitars, brand and leadership

  I am standing at the back – near the raised VIP podium – at a Foo Fighters concert at Earls Court in London. By my description they are a heavy metal band, and I am really too old for this. I am at least 300 yards from the band and front-man Dave Grohl Read More... Posted 17 December 2005 22:27 by David Ferrabee | (Comments Off)

• Employee communication: it's not that hard

  There's a great diagramme I still use from my HR consulting days. It is called something like "the evolution of internal communication". On one side it says people as a resource, and on the other side it says people as discriminating investors. That's Read More... Posted 16 December 2005 09:17 by David Ferrabee | 1 Comments

• Stakeholder communication management

  I have sat with two great multi-national giants in the last two days while they looked at "audiences" and tried to attach messages to them. And I have demured. By and large big companies... Sophisticated companies are really good at messages. They can Read More... Posted 14 December 2005 17:09 by David Ferrabee | 2 Comments

• Corporate Intranets: what's in a name?

  I struggle with this blog to find the balance between what is useful and what is interesting. I prefer to write about knotty issues that we have been presented with. I like to think things through out loud and get your comments. But I recognise that for Read More... Posted 08 December 2005 16:04 by David Ferrabee | 2 Comments

• Who owns Internal Communications? Could it be Marketing?!

  Where does it belong? Is it HR? Or Corporate? ...Or Marketing? I have written about this recently . However I keep being asked about it. They say things happen in threes, but in the last week I have been asked about this five times. These times it has Read More... Posted 05 December 2005 17:33 by David Ferrabee | 2 Comments

• Goals, stats and internal communications

  In today's British papers are yet another set of " league tables " for schools across the country. I know there are people who read them with great interest. But to me they make no sense. Graecum est; non potest legi. Why, I wonder, do we put so much Read More... Posted 02 December 2005 08:38 by David Ferrabee | 2 Comments