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This model is structured around five streams: Formal internal communication, the traditional work of comms teams, sharing leader updates, business changes and new policies. Collaboration, encompassing all the ways that employees work together in groups to achieve outcomes. Social and cultural, helping to engage employees with the organization, and with each other. Intranet, the mainstay of internal communications and content publishing. Modern work practices, reflecting the changing ways that d...

How Schroders people-first culture drove its internal response to Covid-19 ​  The leadership of Schroders is proud of the culture of the business so it is not surprising that, as the Covid-19 crisis broke, the internal communications team was clear in its objective that, whatever else, this should not be adversely impacted. ‘It is a people-first culture,’ explains Sophie Whitwell, communications manager at the global fund management group. ‘One of the first things the senior t...

Hands up if you’ve ever been in a Zoom or Teams meeting, probably with mute on and camera off, and secretly been messaging somebody else in the meeting about what is being discussed or something else entirely? I suspect that quite a few of us are guilty of using what are effectively back channels — parallel or sub-conversations that are carried out in the background. As digital meetings have ramped up in 2020, the back channel remains an intriguing facility with both positive and neg...