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Leaders as Sense Makers
This week the Comma Exchange heard from Marcus Powell, a former Ashridge HR/Organisational Development Consultant and now independent. Marcus has worked in a variety of businesses from Marks & Spencer to the health, wellness and fitness industry. Marcus led a...
How HR and Internal Communicators together can improve the employee experience
Virginia Hicks asks Sarah McPake about her observations moving from Internal Communications to HR
How Internal Communication Specialists can help line managers become better communicators
Virginia Hicks talks to David Gallagher about how internal communicators can help line managers become better communicators.
How Internal Communications and HR can work more closely together for mutual benefit
At this week’s Comma Exchange meeting we heard from Sarah McPake, Head of Talent, Insights and Inclusion at TSB Bank. Our invite to Sarah was very purposeful. For the last four years she has been working in HR roles but previously she was in internal communications...
The increasing importance of the line manager in internal communications and engagement
For the last several months we have been running a regular Zoom group called the Comma Exchange, originally set up to help those who were experiencing periods of unemployment during the pandemic and were seeking support and encouragement whilst they found their next...
Communicating with hard to reach and virtual employees
We talk to Sam Hodlin, Communications Consultant, about his experiences at D S Smith and Eurostar about the increasing challenges of communicating and engaging with hard to reach and virtual employees - a challenge exacerbated by COVID. Sam and the Comma Exchange...
Communicating with virtual & ‘hard to reach’ employees
Here at Comma we talked with our member network to discover how businesses have been communicating to two key audiences during the COVID pandemic. The traditional ‘hard to reach’ employees (those at the front line, the shopfloor workers, the shift workers), and the...
Coaching Tips and Tricks
Virginia Hicks, Comma's MD, talks to coach, Edith Wilkinson, to understand more about confidence - why it comes and goes - and what we can do to help ourselves. Q1: How would you describe confidence? A1: I think that outward confidence comes from an inner feeling of...
Coaching to confidence
Has your confidence taken a knock during the COVID pandemic? If not, consider yourself fortunate. Research from multiple sources report that dwindling confidence levels and self-belief are being felt right across the board. These findings are...