Engaging Internal Comms

Craig Smith talks to Leanne Spencer, who is co-founder of Bodyshot Performance – an award-winning health and wellbeing company that uses technology and science-based solutions to create happy, healthy and resilient teams for organisations including Britvic and Zurich. The wellbeing of an employee has only recently come into the headlines in line with mental health awareness. But it is becoming evermore transparent to organisations how important it is to ensure the physical and mental wellbeing of their staff both in the office and when working remotely. It’s being discovered that this not only improves the individual’s performance, but the organisation’s too.

This week we are talking to Susan Elliott, who is an Employee Engagement Experience and Wellness Specialist. Susan has a wealth of experience and has held positions as Head of Internal Comms and Employee Engagement with Allied Irish Banks, Head of IC as well as People Engagement for Tesco Bank, and is also a qualified CliftonStrengths coach with Gallup. Susan helps organisations’ employees to connect with their business and play a part in achieving the company’s goals. There are copious amounts of content claiming to define employee engagement. But Susan cuts through to the evidence-based theories of what engagement really is.

In Episode 16, Craig Smith talks to Jamie Mustard, multimedia consultant and author of The Iconist: The Art and Science of Standing Out. Peppered with history, analogies and metaphors, this is an engaging episode that puts slogans and taglines in their place and describes how to communicate in an iconic way that will resonate with your target audience. What is an iconist?“Someone who punches through their own unease or discomfort and the constant thrum of messaging noise that goes on around them and figures out a way to get through, get attention, get engaged, and get their offering out to the world.” Jamie asserts in his book that you can achieve iconic status (something that is emblazed within our minds) with a targeted individual or group in five minutes.

The Big Picture People’s Craig Smith talks about the future of the workplace with Tracy Brower, Principal at Steelcase, a company leading the way in designing workplaces that allow people to deliver their full potential. Tracy is a contributing writer at Forbes and Fast Company and the author of ‘Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work: A Guide for Leaders and Organisations’. Tracy is a huge believer in the workplace having something very important to offer us, something of a contrarian view in the middle of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many to forecast working from home as being the way forward in the world of work.

In this episode of Engaging Internal Comms, The Big Picture People’s Craig Smith talks to Teresa Boughey about diversity and inclusion and the critical nature of a diversity communication strategy. Teresa is founder and CEO of Jungle HR, an award-winning business consultancy, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development, and the author of bestseller Closing the Gap. You’ll hear Teresa expand on the meaning of diversity and inclusion, and explain her company’s TRIBE model.