Posted on June 17, 2016 11:47 am by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Advertising | Audio | Brands | Business | Ethics | Facebook | Measurement | Media | Mobile | PR | Publishing | Social Media | Social networks | Technology | Transparency | Twitter | Video
The Friday Wrap is my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items that flew under the radar while other stories grabbed big headlines. As always, I collect material from which I select Wrap stories (as well as stories…
Posted on June 15, 2016 10:02 am by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Business | Internal | Participatory Communication | Social networks
The communication role of the people manager has achieved mythic proportions, becoming one of the sturdiest of sacred corporate cows. Companies embarking on change initiatives or seeking to build employee engagement include the manager as a matter of routine. To be sure, managers play a critical role in such activities. The problem is, it is practically impossible to ensure consistent…
Posted on June 10, 2016 11:21 am by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Management | The Workplace Experience | Content | Advertising | Brands | Business | Channels | Ethics | Facebook | Marketing | Media | Mobile | Podcasting | PR | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Transparency | Twitter | Video | Web3D
I’m back after missing the Wrap last week while I was at the IABC World Conference in New Orleans. As always, the Friday Wrap is my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items that flew under the radar while…
Posted on May 27, 2016 10:24 am by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | Virtual and Augmented Reality | The Workplace Experience | Content | Audio | Brands | Business | Content Curation | Crisis Communication | Facebook | Google+ | Legal | Marketing | Media | Mobile | Podcasting | PR | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Twitter
The Friday Wrap is my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items that flew under the radar while other stories grabbed big headlines. As always, I collect material from which I select Wrap stories (as well as stories…
Posted on May 25, 2016 1:29 pm by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Internal | Technology
“I have some senior managers questioning the need to retain dedicated internal communications specialists. Why not just get others in the Marketing team to chip in to support, they suggest.”
That was the message I got from a corporate communications manager in mid-May. It wasn’t the first time I have heard this sentiment. Or the second. Not even the third. The fact is, the…
Posted on May 24, 2016 9:23 am by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Internal
Conventional wisdom has led companies to spend countless billions of dollars in an effort to turn supervisors into communicators.
The conventional wisdom is that the relationship between employees and their supervisors is the key to engagement. Bolstering the argument that the relationship is vital is research from Gallup—the organization that, for all practical purposes, invented the concept of employee engagement—that found about half of…
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