How to Guide Difficult Conversations in Performance Reviews

Performance reviews are an essential part of any positive employer-employee relationship. As a business leader, they give you a chance to better understand your employees and plan for their growth. However, the issues you need to address during these discussions are not always going to be pleasant. It might be the fact that your employee isn't quit...

Whether you're a freelancer or a full-time employee, remote work is slowly becoming the norm in dozens of industries, including IT, business management, and sales. According to Forbes, 74% of professionals are in favor of remote becoming an industry standard, with 97% never wanting to return to full-time office work. The allure of working from home...

To run a business is to engage with risk. However, many company leaders focus on the internal element of risk. What is the potential for financial failure? How could cybercrime disrupt everyday activities? Have they got sufficient insurance to compensate injured workers? But this doesn't represent the entirety of the impact risk can present. When d...

Journalists and professional communicators – people with jobs in the communication field (corporate, external, HR, equality, diversity and inclusion, and internal) – are paid for their expertise to assemble words into meaningful content. Their focus is on observing, writing, editing and crafting a message to alert, persuade, report or tell a story ...

Regardless of the industry or environment in which you work, safety must always be the top priority. To spread the word about workplace policies and safety procedures, proper communication is key. That means verbal reminders, smart signage, and an open-door policy that allows the chance for feedback and tells your staff that you care about them as ...

Company policies are essential for keeping your operations consistent and functional. Without clear sets of procedures for every aspect of your business, things start to fall apart relatively quickly. Your policies project the intentions of your company, its values, and its ethics. They also serve to make certain that every action taken by employee...

In a world where our colleagues have access to so many channels, clarity about messages is essential if we can hope to have impact says author and consultant Liam FitzPatrick. I recently did a simple audit of comms channels for an international organisation and was struck by the massive volume of channels available.When I started in PR and Comms a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused remote working to become the norm for thousands. Employees and employers alike are enjoying several benefits that go along with remote work. It can increase productivity and provides flexibility while saving many businesses money. Working from home can also reduce stress and put more of a focus on communicative empl...

Each year when the Gallagher and IoIC State of the Sector report is released, there is a level of consternation about the absence of long-term strategic planning in internal communication (IC). According to the 2021 report only 40% of IC teams had a plan any further ahead than one year. Putting aside debate about how far ahead IC teams should be lo...

This Mental Health Awareness Week, the FutureNet committee has been talking all about what mental health and wellbeing means for us as internal communicators. Mental health and wellbeing is a wide-ranging, important and sensitive area so it can be difficult to know where to start when it comes to planning your communications. Particularly as employ...