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Ragan's Digital Workplace Guide for Communicators

December 2020 Digital Workplace Guide

Welcome to the December 2020 edition of Ragan’s Digital Workplace Guide!

As we near the end of this year, we at Ragan hope you are feeling healthy and hopeful for the future. You play a key role in helping workers do their jobs better, which makes their lives easier and less stressful. That’s no small thing. Read on for practical guidance to help stay motivated and inspired. Also, check out the latest tools and products from our partners.

5 ways to build a partnership with IT to improve employee experience

Learn how communicators and IT professionals can break down barriers, build understanding and create a better workflow for everyone.

Experts lay out the role internal comms should play in refreshing and reinvigorating the workforce

New data says 80% of employees have no motivation right now. Here’s how to inspire, encourage and uplift wrung-out colleagues.

How to score a podcast interview for your exec

With exploding audience numbers, the digital audio format offers big upsides for organizations eager for thought leadership clout and earned media hits.

7 ways to elicit better workplace feedback

Most companies have a serious deficit of unvarnished truth. Here’s how to improve your discourse, build trust, and create healthier expectations among employees.

How to manage and mitigate bad company reviews

How should you handle those nasty critiques on Glassdoor? Should you respond at all? Follow this guidance to counter negative comments and protect your brand’s reputation.

From Our Partners

Microsoft Yammer

newyam@microsoft.com

Microsoft Yammer

If you are just getting started or have tried Yammer in the past, we have the tools for you in every step of the journey. Check out the brand-new “Guide to Yammer” flipbook, which includes a variety of communication scenarios, editable resources, interactive content, and customer stories. Yammer brings the power of communities across applications and devices that employees use every day, including Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint.

The “Guide to Yammer” flipbook.

PoliteMail

nicole@politemail.com

PoliteMail

Because Email Is Now More Important Than Ever… Why Not Get Smarter About it?

Our State of Corporate Communications survey report ranks email as the most important messaging channel. So, how can you get smarter about it? Download our FREE guide, How to Write Emails Employees Will Actually Read, to learn how measuring key data such as reach, frequency, attention, readership and engagement can help sharpen your email strategy and improve results over time.

PoliteMail helps you create more impressive emails and measure results all within Outlook. Learn how to optimize your email communication to keep employees informed and engaged.

Looking for more resources? Check out our free resource center.

Staffbase

Marketing@staffbase.com

PoliteMail

One-Page Internal Communication Strategy Template: The Only Tool You Need Heading Into 2021

For years, the increasing importance of strong internal communication has been heralded as essential to business success. Then came the year 2020, with a global pandemic scattering workforces and isolating employees far and wide. Companies were suddenly forced to adopt new communication tools and strategies in order to reach their people with vital information. Doing so could be a literal matter of survival—for the business and its employees alike. If ever there was a time in history for internal communications to shine, that time is now. Staffbase wants to support you in this critical phase. We’ve developed a basic strategy template to help internal communicators plan for the days ahead.

Download our comms template and build your 2021 strategy today!

Workplace from Facebook

 

Workplace from Facebook

As a comms goal, employee experience was already starting to emerge as a natural successor to employee engagement because it puts people’s needs at the heart of the business. With the shift in employee expectations driven by COVID-19 (90% of companies believe their culture actually improved while working remotely), there can be no going back to the old, top-down comms strategies. Here’s how to get started with employee experience.

Workplace from Facebook is a communication tool that connects everyone in your company, even if they’re working remotely. Use familiar features like Groups, Chat, Rooms and Live Video broadcasting to get people talking and working together and boost your employee experience.

Malone Media

info@malone-media.com

1 (833) 625-6631

Malone Media

Ragan’s Go-To VIRTUAL EVENT Partner

Malone Media can help you deliver your next great event—completely virtually.

As Ragan’s go-to event partner, Malone Media has provided livestreams of Ragan’s amazing in-person events for years. Now, during this unprecedented time, Malone Media produces engaging, interactive virtual events for Ragan. This isn’t a boring webinar either, but an evolution in streaming technology creating a one-of-a-kind experience for your audience.

  • Reach an audience of thousands that’s accessible on any internet-connected device
  • Customize the experience with a branded event website with tracking features
  • Enhance your virtual networking with camera-to-camera interactivity
  • Engage your audience with moderated Q&A and polling
  • And much more…

To include your solution in this Guide contact
Hannah Lavelle at Hannahl@ragan.com.

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