Keep your staff in the loop [BT broadband office]

Keep your staff in the loop

Posted 31 March 2008 at 2:02PM by Hannah Gilchrist in Email and communications

Ever felt like you're working in a bubble? That you don't really know what's going on around you, but you're still working away regardless? Well keeping staff in the picture about current ventures and clients is one of the most important parts to business.

Ok so some people aren't interested in the future of the business and are quite happy just plodding along - but that's no good for your business. Keeping staff informed could make them more motivated and help them feel involved with changes that are happening.

But while spreading the news can mean tearing your employees away from their desks, not all business updates have to involve hour-long talks. Tesco is one company where they've found the best way to interact with staff is through the medium of print.

Their fortnightly edition of The One will bring breaking company news to more than 270,000 employees across 2,000 stores. But are companies right to spend money on what essentially can be said in one hour

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Comments

1. At April 1, 2008 8:28 AM, Scott wrote:

Surely a cheaper alternative for large companies would be to write an email and send it to "all"??

2. At April 2, 2008 8:15 AM, batman wrote:

It would make a change from the Mushroom Management I used to work for... keep you in the dark and throw s**t at you. But working in the dwindling print 'industry', printing things keeps a lot of people employed, traps that all important carbon in the pages and a lot of staff like to thumb a mag rather than fry their eyes away in front of a screen. Maybe a small video presentation sent on dvd to all departments would help, people love watching the telly... does anyone remember those management videos starring John Cleese? Get firms to post their messages on you tube. They could code the title so no one else would do a search on a video called @JHUGFFD^%GFT& - a link from that 'all' email perhaps?

3. At April 4, 2008 10:25 AM, Adrian wrote:

"They could code the title so no one else would do a search..." but it would be a risk that someone would stumble across it. Much better to host a streaming server on the company intranet than on a public server.

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