The need for Communications will vary from organisation to organisation, depending on reputational or strategic issues, organization size and footprint, product sensitivity, culture and method of operation.

Internal Communications

This is an essential practice for most companies, especially those going through change such as restructuring (involving redundancies), strategy changes, divestments or mergers and acquisitions.

The responsibility of Internal Communications is to ensure that the company’s vision and values are not only understood by the employees but ‘bought into’. The need to engage people is increasingly important, in order to make them more productive and to maximize internal support for an organisation’s strategic direction.

Internal Communications puts together a strategy to keep every member of the organisation from top to bottom informed of the company’s aims and business plans. This involves coaching middle and senior managers on how to communicate with their own teams – ensuring that there are regular team briefings and facilitating these where necessary.

Internal Communications takes the ‘pulse’ of the company with regular focus groups and engagement audits.

Internal Communications is often the facilitator of the ‘voice’ of the CEO/Chairman to the rest of the company.

Practitioners frequently come from a journalistic background and have very strong networking, organizational, writing and oral communication skills. They are persuasive and intuitive.

In some organisations the Internal Communications teams are quite large and include in-house editors, copywriters, journalists and intranet managers and editors.

• We recruit communications professionals from Manager to Head of and Director levels.
• We are strong in both Corporate Communications and Internal Communications and make it our business to understand our clients’ businesses and the particular issues they need to address.
• As part of a large international network we can provide a solution that takes into account the business as a whole as well as the part the role of communications plays within it
• We take time to get to know our candidates and, in many cases, will have an already established relationship with them. This ensures that the skills and aspirations of the individual match those of the client company providing a platform for success and minimizing risk

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