Category: Work
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Fixing boring intranets – Your intranet has no personality
If your intranet were a person, how would you describe its personality? Intranets are boring because they are unambitious from a design perspective. They have no soul. They have no identity. “Our new intranet is great, it doesn’t look like SharePoint!” I’m horrified when I hear things like this on industry forums, webinars and at…
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Fixing boring intranets – Leaders: you’re not leading if you’re not communicating
Leaders can only lead through communication. We can’t delegate this. Leaders need support, yes. Particularly senior leaders of large organisations. They’ve got lots on their plates and we should be empathetic to that. But they can’t have a communications team do this entirely on their behalf. Intranets are boring – Reason #2: Leaders are not…
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Fixing boring intranets – Your intranet is suffering from a severe case of boredom
The majority of intranets are boring. The chances are, yours is too. Why? In this blog series, we’re going to look into four reasons why intranets are b?ring. Intranets are boring – Reason #1: Top down, push communications. All too often the content is lacking relevance to me as an individual. Cleansed of emotion. Devoid…
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Fixing boring intranets – A reality check….?
Most internal comms teams expect employees to start their day by opening the intranet. Most HR teams expect the intranet to be the single source of truth. Most IT teams see the intranet as a solution looking for a problem, when we already have a tool for that! ? Most employees see the intranet as…
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What is Digital Employee Experience?
From Customer Experience to Employee Experience We are familiar with the term customer experience? The idea that as customers, we experience a company through our interactions with it. We can think of employee experience in a similar way. The collection of our experiences interacting with our employer over time. These interactions, or touch-points, can be…
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Definitions in the context of a Digital Employee Experience
For those of us who have been involved in the world of internal communications and “intranets” for some time, we have certainly seen plenty of terms come and go! So what are some of the definitions we are seeing in use currently, and where are they taking us? Intranet A corporate portal or set of…