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Each day, millions of smart communicators struggle to increase employee engagement. There are too many tactics and not enough time. “Internal Comms Pro: The Podcast” aims to change that. We want to make your corporate communications or internal communications job easier. We are bringing together the best in the business to give you real ideas on how to improve engagement and retention at any organization. We will show you how to elevate your position, improve your stats, and make your workpl ...
While we often use the show to talk about, well, internal communications, today we’re shifting our focus to marketing. No, you didn’t mishear. Our guest today, Anthony Perl, Director, Principal of Communications & Marketing Agency at CommTogether, will be sharing his latest findings over this past year. While some of these examples are from externa…
Today we’re talking with Lizabeth Wesely Casella, Founder, and CEO of L-12 Services. Lizabeth’s company specifically helps internal communications teams in preventing and reversing the Great Resignation. Today, she’ll share the successes and roadblocks she’s seen along the way. Music Provided by Bensound…
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An ICPro Approach to the Great Resignation - 7.2
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Our guest for today is Mark Herschberg, Professional Development Teacher at MIT and the author of “The Career Toolkit.” Mark dives into the causes for the Great Resignation, where that leaves us, and what we can do to get a pulse on our company. You can find our resource guides as well as our guests' contacts on our associated blog page: www.intern…
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The Importance of the Words We Choose - 7.1
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Our guest today is Terre Short, the CEO of Short Group and the author of the book “The Words We Choose.” We’ll cover how important the words we choose are, as well as ways to shape our language to be the most effective, which can be as simple as removing one word from your vocabulary! You can find our resource guides as well as our guests' contacts…
This season, Internal Comms Pro: The Podcast is taking you “On The Field” as we talk to the experts to see what they’ve been doing during this transitioning time. From current events to going back to the basics, we’re looking at various topics that you and your fellow ICPros won’t want to miss.By Internal Comms Pro
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Showing Value Through Your Workplace Culture - 6.10
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Our guest for today is Nathan Stuck, the Director of Corporate Culture and Strategic Impact at Ad Victoriam Solutions. Spending over 4 years in the company, Nathan has helped build Ad Victoriam’s workplace culture and was there when it needed to be restructured. Nathan shares his learnings through his growing company and gives us a few tips on what…
We’re chatting with Ben Baker, President of Your Brand Marketing and Podcast Host for Your Living Brand Live Show. Ben has worn a lot of hats and has had the opportunity to see how employees truly affect their company’s brand story, and how you can uncover the gems that could make up an authentic internal brand story for your company. We also conti…
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Communication Tools for Your Comms Strategy - 6.8
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This week, we chat with Phil Simon on his newest book "Reimagining Collaboration," breaking down how you can take full advantage of your company's communication tools. We also continue our segment with Ragan's Communications Leadership Council with Michele Ehrhart, Vice President of Global Communications from Fedex. You can find our resource guide …
This week, Phil Strazzulla shares how he personally set up a routine of self-care, and how you can adapt that into your own day-to-day routine. We also continue our segment with Ragan's Communications Leadership Council with Michael Waterman, Vice President of Culture and Engagement at CHG Healthcare. You can find our resource guide as well as our …
This week, we’re talking with a returning guest on the show, Tarek Kamil, the CEO of Cerkl, who is also one of our returning sponsors. Being in the industry for as long as he has, Tarek will be sharing some trends he’s currently seeing, where things might be heading in the future, and ways that you can take valuable time to look into these trends y…
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The DEI Definition for You and Your Company - 6.5
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Our guest for this episode is Robin Shabazz, Founder of the Eastledge Group which offers cultural-based counseling for organizations. With her years of experience, Robin has seen many successes and fails when companies try to implement diversity measures. We’ll be going back to the basics as Robin breaks down what DEI truly means for you and your c…
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Bringing Your Value to Executive Comms - 6.4
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Jen Hall is the Internal Communications Director at Novant Health, and her team had an interesting situation to work through. Being in the field of healthcare, Novant Health has employees both working from home and on the front lines during the pandemic. In this episode, Jen explains how she was able to deliver effective communication to her fellow…
As the value of internal communicators has become more apparent in the past year, it can seem like our company's expectations of us have increased as well. It's helpful to make plans that go towards the big picture, but what are some things we can do now to stay above the work? This week, we chat with Anthony Bolton, Senior Manager of Employee Comm…
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Clear Communication with a Hybrid Workforce - 6.2
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As we're settling into a new normal, remote and hybrid work environments are becoming more prevalent. How can you keep up with your clear employee communication when everything feels like it's shifting? We chat with Clifton Johnson, Senior Managing Director at Teach for America. Working in a hybrid environment himself, Clif shares how his company h…
In our first episode of the season, we chat with Anthony Witrado, Public Relations Lead at PGA of America. We're Shifting the Mindset on the topic of storytelling as Anthony shares his experience as a journalist. You'll learn what constitutes as a story, what questions you should be asking, and more! We're happy to introduce our newest segment in a…
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Internal Comms Pro: The Podcast - Season 6 Trailer
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The value of internal communicators is being recognized now more than ever, but with that recognition comes greater expectations. Our world is changing rapidly, and internal communicators have to adapt. This season, our guests will share how they are tackling these changes and how you can do the same. This season, we're "Shifting the Mindset." Tune…
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Influential Internal Communication: The Must Have Book for Every Internal Communicator in 2021 -5.18
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Jenni Field, Founder of Redefining Communications helps listeners go from chaos to calm with her new book "Influential Internal Communication." We’ll review highlights from the book that help to redefine internal communications in a way that will affect the true evolution of your organization and in the end, expand your sphere of influence.…
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Change Communications and the Future of IC - 5.17
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We talk with two trailblazers from the midwest, Jessica Bauer and Amanda Atkins. They share how Slack handled their recent change of being acquired by Salesforce and how their internal communications responded. Their talent, attitude, and planning helped keep Slack employees in the loop every step of the way.…
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Building an Internal Comms Department from the Ground Up - 5.16
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Patrick Holmes gives us his strategy and step by step process along with all his learnings from building an internal communications department from the ground up. Even if you have a large or established team, his tips are still applicable for those needing to go back and perhaps collect data on a new initiative or project you are sharing. We also d…
Meetings are so important and good low-hanging fruit to quickly show your value as an internal communicator. Tony Kihl, Director of Corporate Communications at the Cleveland Clinic shares his process on how he enhanced his company’s meeting structure. If you find yourself in a new role, like Tony, consider enhancing your company’s meetings. Learn h…
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COVID Reshapes IC: How to Remain Relevant with the New Normal - 5.14
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Steve and Cindy from Crescenzo Communications empower you to keep your communications relevant and provide your employees with a greater sense of belonging like never before. We cover it all from the one thing your channel strategy is missing to the first step to listening to your audience.By Internal Comms Pro
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Pull People Into Your Comms with Gamification - 5.13
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Blair Bloomston, Partner and Vice President of Business Development at Game on Nation walks us through the MILE method giving us 4 secret elements that help double down on the fun while creating meaningful moments for our employees. This episode teaches listeners how to pull your employees closer to your content and virtual events by using gamifica…
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The Technology Roadmap to Take Your Channel Strategy to New Heights - 5.12
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Our industry continues to quickly evolve and innovate to meet employees’ demand to provide a consumer grade employee experience. But how do we get there? What are the pieces to this new channel strategy puzzle that will ultimately provide employee readiness for our frontline workers? Today, Stephen Jones shares how his push/pull comms strategy took…
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What Employees Want: What the Data Says to Drive Connection - 5.11
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This episode taps into the insights of two internal communications experts, Jason Anthoine and Mark Mohammadpour help answer the one question that always stirs in an internal communicator’s heart, “What do our employees really want?” We are going to dive into data that may surprise you and bring you back to some good old fashioned common sense that…
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Order Taker Transformed: The New Strategic Mindset to Stay Focused, Build Credibility & Show Value - 5.10
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Gary Ross, President of Inside Comms, shines light on a new strategic mindset that provides guardrails for your work. This episode will transform any order taker to the much needed strategic coach that your business needs. Get ready to be transformed, stay focused, build credibility, & show value all along the way.…
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Building an Internal Comms Strategic Plan to Enhance Employee Experience - 5.9
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Lisa Ramsey, Director of Corporate Communications at Health Care Service Corporation also known as Blue Cross Blue Shield, walks us through step by step on how to build your overarching strategy and plan. Learn the building blocks you need to start your foundation and become the architect of your internal comms strategic plan.…
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IC Disruption: Innovating Your Cross Channel Digital Strategy - 5.8
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Today’s episode features Kristin Spillane and Vanessa Schroeder who provide senior communications and global employee communications at Citrix. Together with Tarek Kamil, CEO of Cerkl, we discuss how 2020 provided lighting rod moments that cracked open doorways for disruption (in a good way) in internal communications like never before.…
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5 Ingredients to Planning an Engaging Virtual Event - 5.7
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Today we talk with Chad Littlefield, the Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer at We and Me, Inc, an organization whose mission is to create conversations that matter. Get ready to see how Chad’s ability to create connection before content choreographed today’s show and in the end, will help you connect with your audience.…
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The Empathy Based Remote Work Playbook - 5.6
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Tara Davis, Director of Internal communications for the American Psychological Association, discusses her empathy based remote work playbook. She gives us the changes she made in her messaging, channel, and remote work engagement strategy. Learn what it takes to make a psychologically healthy workplace.…
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Transparency for Frontline Workers: The Four Pillar Communication Formula - 5.5
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This week, we talk with Michael Hughes on his four pillar communication formula to empower leadership with transparent communication for frontline workers. Tune in to learn how to craft your effective employee messages.By Internal Comms Pro
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Maintaining Culture and Connection with a Remote Workforce - 5.4
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This week, we talk with Jessica Schaeffer, Vice President of Marketing for LaSalle Network. We'll gather ideas that, although they come from a small business, can work with any size organization. If you need some new ideas to refresh your remote work playbook, this episode is for you.By Internal Comms Pro
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Pioneering Women in IC: How Friendship Blazed the Trail - 5.3
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This week’s episode features three female internal comms pioneers. Jenni Field, Trudy Lewis and Advita Patel share how their friendship empowers them to take risks, start new projects, build successful businesses and share their genius along the way. Music Provided by BensoundBy Internal Comms Pro
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DEI: How to Craft the DEI Conversation to Impact Workplace Culture - 5.2
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Our DEI journey continues this week with 4 DEI leaders experts and leaders from around the world. We talk with Ann Melinger, Dorianne St Fleur, Mike Klein, and Gihan A.M. Hyde on how to navigate DEI within your company and provide a framework to help you organize your process. Music Provided by Bensound…
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The Professional and Personal Change Journey that Hit Home - 5.1
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For our premiere episode, we bring in two internal communicators, Ashley Morgan and Edward Ford, to share their personal and professional change journeys. DEI is our focus this week, and we're asking the tough questions such as what you need to ask yourself before you start crafting messages around DEI, what are the 3 steps every internal communica…
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Internal Comms Pro: The Podcast - Season 5 Trailer
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2020 has been a world-changing year. As we move into 2021, we'll tackle topics facing our listeners. Our season covers DEI, keeping a diverse and remote connected, building a technology roadmap, navigating the art and science of strategic planning, and more. Our first episode premieres on 02/23.By Internal Comms Pro
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Finale Episode: The Whiteboard Session To Declutter Your Comms Channel Strategy Plus Bonus Storytelling Tools - 4.10 Part 2
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We’re at our final episode for the 4th season of Internal Comms Pro: The Podcast. This week, we wrap up our conversation with Lauren Ritchie, Manager of Internal and External Communications at RACQ. Tune in as we uncover the one blindspot she found for internal communicators and how to empower your team through 2 different storytelling frameworks.…
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Finale Episode: The Whiteboard Session To Declutter Your Comms Channel Strategy Plus Bonus Storytelling Tools - 4.10 Part 1
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We’re at the last two episodes for our 4th season of Internal Comms Pro: The Podcast. This week, we talked with Lauren Ritchie, Manager of Internal & External Communications at RACQ. Tune in as Lauren shares how to successfully facilitate a white board session with your team to declutter your comms channel strategy.…
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When Virtual takes Front Seat: The Strategy Behind a Winning Remote Work Experience. - 4.9 Part 2
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We continue our conversation with Rachel Maley and Emily Regenold from Paycor on how they elevated their communications planning process. Tune in as we also discuss what focus groups revealed about Paycor employees and how to get more budget for the tools you need in 2021.By Internal Comms Pro
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When Virtual takes Front Seat: The Strategy Behind a Winning Remote Work Experience. - 4.9 Part 1
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On this episode of Internal Comms Pro: The Podcast, we talk to Rachel Maley and Emily Regenold from Paycor. They share how they shifted to a permanent remote work environment and how they helped their employees every step of the way. You’ll also learn how you can let go of perfection and embrace the learning process and the emotions that come with …
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How this One-Person Team Elevated their Internal Comms and Engaged Employees Globally - 4.8
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On this episode of Internal Comms Pro, the Podcast, we chat with our sponsors from ContactMonkey! Join us as Scott Pielsticker and Corey Kachigan share how they became ok with being uncomfortable while taking risks and trying new things. You’ll also learn how “jumping in” gets results and improves the employee experience.…
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Insights Report: The New Rules of Employee Experience & Communication in late 2020 and Beyond - 4.7
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This week, Victoria Dew, the Founder of Dewpoint Communications shares her business experience and how she uses it to help other internal communicators. Tune in to learn her research on a wide section of industries and the highlights she gained of how they are continuing to move forward.By Internal Comms Pro
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The Rise of Internal Comms Teams: A Blueprint to See Where You Are, Envision Where you Want to Go, and Plan a Course to Get There - 4.6
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Pinaki Kathiari, owner of Local Wisdom, provides a blueprint that empowers internal communicators with the time and headspace to be a strategic force in their organizations. This blueprint will help you get your above water, plan for the upcoming year, and get the resources needed to provide value from the inside out. For the first time, we’re intr…
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From Storyteller to Data Geek: How Measurement Moved Behavior at Equinix - 4.5 Part 2
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We’re continuing our conversation with Equinix’s Greg Bardsley. In this episode, we dive into the different layers of measurement and learn how data can be a motivating factor for managers. Greg also shares his measurement checklist and how he saved his team from the internal comms hamster wheel.By Internal Comms Pro
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From Storyteller to Data Geek: How Measurement Moved Behavior at Equinix - 4.5 Part 1
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From storyteller to data geek, Greg Bardsley, Director of Internal Communications at Equinix, shares how his lean team, through measurement, is able to get off the internal comms hamster wheel, scrambling to every request, to working on things that drive employee behavior.By Internal Comms Pro
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How to Become an Official Member of The Leadership Club - 4.4 Part 2
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Our conversation with Tarek Kamil continues as he showcases the time of history we are in for internal communications. Tune in as Tarek gives listeners strategic questions, key terms, and the critical relationships you need to build to calculate your ROI.By Internal Comms Pro
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How to Become an Official Member of The Leadership Club - 4.4 Part 1
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Tarek Kamil, the CEO of Cerkl, gives us a rare glimpse into how ROI is the language that resonates among your leadership. Tune in as Tarek teaches listeners how to calculate and speak ROI to show your contribution to your business bottom line.By Internal Comms Pro
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From Snapshot to Complete Picture: How Google Measures Internal Communication - 4.3 Part 2
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On this episode of Internal Comms Pro: The Podcast, we continue our conversation with Pierre Le Leannec from Google. This week, we learn how to take one step closer to the pro side of internal comms pro to take our internal comms measurement strategy to the next level.By Internal Comms Pro
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From Snapshot to Complete Picture: How Google Measures Internal Communication - 4.3 Part 1
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On this episode of Internal Comms Pro: The Podcast, we talk with Internal Communications Manager and Producer for Google, Pierre Le Leannec. Pierre shares advice on the first question to ask before you start measuring, as well as why feedback is the most important currency to you. This, and much more on today’s show.…
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A New IC Vision: The Formula for Innovation - 4.2 Part 2
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We continue our conversation with Anthea Pang and Tiara Conley from VMware. This week, we uncover blind spots internal communicators face when innovating with IT. Listeners will also receive tips on how to navigate hard conversations with leadership and gain insight on how to sustain excitement when bringing a consumer experience to employees.…
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A New IC Vision: The Formula for Innovation - 4.2 Part 1
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On this episode of Internal Comms Pro: The Podcast, we uncover elements of VMware’s formula for innovation within internal communications. Anthea Pang, Director of Digital Strategy & Communications and Tiara Conley, VMware’s Digital Channel Specialist share how they inspired a vision and took calculated risks to build a superior employee experience…
