Internal Communications and Employee Engagement Round-Up: Invest in Internal Communications to Build Your Best Brand Ambassadors

Welcome to our monthly round-up of articles and resources on internal communications and employee engagement. We tweet the articles and share on our social channels but in case you missed them here are a few of our favorites on the blog.

Enjoy and please let us know what you’ve been reading in the comments section below.

• • Becoming irresistible: A new model for employee engagement
    —By Josh Bersin, @DU_Press
    “The employee-work contract has changed, compelling business leaders to build organizations that engage employees as sensitive, passionate, creative contributors. Two years of research and discussions with hundreds of clients suggest five major elements and underlying strategies that work together to make organizations “irresistible.”

 

• • How Content Marketing Can Help Attract Top Talent
    —By Jessica Stephenson @JessLStephenson
    “The key is to make the most out of available resources– starting with formulating a strategy for the recruiting process in the same way you would for customer acquisition. In this first article of a series, we’ll examine persona development and a few ideas for generating initial awareness and interest for your employment opportunities through the use of content.”

 

• • Invest in Internal Communications to Build Your Best Brand Ambassadors
    —By Rosalynn Vasquez @RosalynnVasquez
    “…companies are still forgetting to consider another group that is just as important, if not more – the “internal customers,” aka, employees. Yes, a company’s greatest assets are inside your company, ratherthan outside. And as company leaders see this and invest in, empower and engage with their employees through strong and strategic internal communications, they can build strong and long-term brand ambassadors.”

 

• • How Employee Engagement Impacts the Bottom Line [INFOGRAPHIC]
    —By Jörgen Sundberg, @jorgensundberg
    “Effective communication and financial performances are strongly related: companies that are highly effective at communication are 1.7 times as likely to outperform their peers.” — Towers Watson

 

• • 5 Key Elements to Mastering Employee Engagement
    —By Sophie Deering, @sophiedeering
    “If you’re looking to improve performance and productivity within your organization, then you may want to focus on boosting your employee engagement. Disengaged employees cost American businesses an average of $300 billion a year in productivity losses, as unhappy staff are unlikely to put their full effort into their work. They are also morelikely to start looking for opportunities elsewhere, resulting in high recruitment costs and training of new staff.”

 

• How to MakeYour Employees More Engaged and Productive
  —By Jacob Morgan, @jacobm
  “As the world of work continues to evolve and change organizations struggle to adapt. As the gap between the evolving workplace and our organizations grows, so do the disengagement rates. In fact, I believe this to be the single greatest cause for employee disengagement. The best thing that organizations can do to continuously improve engagement and productivity is to evaluate and test common assumptions around how work is currently being done.”