World Book Day 2021

Find out what the FutureNet squad is recommending you to read in 2021: The Books Your Name: Dominie Shelley Title: Internal Communications – A Manual for practitioners Why you recommend it: This is my go-to book. I fell into Internal Communications (and have never looked back!) and this book has brought me practical advice and confidence when I nee...

Many organisations focus their mental health communications around set dates such as Mental Health Awareness Week, yet as we have all experience, colleagues need support throughout the year. Many communicators have been reaching out to ask for help and guidance on how to communicate mental health support to colleagues and FutureNet committee member...

Last month, the IoIC shared a short survey asking internal comms professionals to let us know about their perspective of their learning and development needs, based on the IoIC profession map. Of the 92 respondents who completed the survey, 17 fell into the FutureNet criteria of having three years' or less experience of working in internal communic...

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In line with the launch of the IoIC's new long-term initiative #WeMatterAtWork – a campaign which aims to uncover the factors which make people feel valued in their workplace – this month's AskFutureNet call was an opportunity for members of the network to share the ways that they're already ensuring people feel that they matter as well as finding ...

For last month's AskFutureNet call, we were joined by Mark Burrett and Sara Tehrani from VMAGROUP as we discussed the skills and attributes that employers are looking for in their internal communication recruits.  We kicked off with Mark talking us through what he thinks are the top 3 skills that an internal communicator should have in their a...

Couldn't make our call in October? Find out what you missed What makes award-winning comms? That was the question we answered during October's #AskFutureNet call. We were joined by Sequel Group's Nigel Wood, Head of Digital Design, Jason Dowty, Editor, and Becky Leonard, Communications and Content Manager and FutureNet committee member, who answere...