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Category Archives: Internal Communication
Rethinking workspace
Diligent Executives in Africa take an interest in the kind of workspaces they provide for employees. They wrangle about the pros and cons of open-plan offices. They challenge IT to make virtual meetings easier. They engage employee committees on areas … Continue reading
Long Or Short Termism?
Flying to Dar this week, I overheard two Kenyan executives discussing the challenges they were facing. It was a familiar story – the last trading year (however strong) lay firmly in the past. The pressure was on to win in … Continue reading
Posted in African ingenuity, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal Communication, The Brand Inside
Tagged Africa, Businesses, CEO's, Company cultures, Dar, Kenyan executives, Market, UK Institute of Directors (IOD)
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Onboarding challenges
The activity we used to call induction is now widely referred to as onboarding. It remains a crucial part of the hiring process, challenging our HR professionals to integrate new employees into the business as quickly as possible. At The … Continue reading
Posted in African Business, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal brand, Internal Communication, Talent Development, The Brand Inside
Tagged Clarity of Role, Company, Compliance, Connections, Culture, Digital employee, Generation Z employees, HR professionals, Millennials, New employees, onboarding, Organisations, technology, The Brand Inside
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Brand delusion
As I move around our Continent, helping to improve enterprise culture and customer experience, I am becoming increasingly aware of an important trend. It relates to organisational brands, particularly in well-established businesses. I’m discovering that business leaders and senior management … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, African Leadership, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal brand, Internal Communication, Local Brands, The Brand Inside
Tagged )Continent, Africa, brand, Businesses, Culture, Customer, enterprise, Equity, Experience, HR teams, KPI’s, Leaders, Logo, Organisational brands, Recruitment, Senior management
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Empty corporations
As business develops in Africa, many of us are reconsidering the ways in which organisations should be structured and run. As a rule, enterprises that achieve growth beyond the SME level look to copy historical models from overseas. These models … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal brand, Internal Communication, The Brand Inside
Tagged Africa, America, British Industrial Revolution, Business, Colleagues, Corporations, Customers, Employees, Enterprises, Global financial, Managers, Organisations, SME, Suppliers
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Workplace Wellness
Today, there are so many aspects of Human Resource management that we never had to consider before. Not because HR Managers weren’t thinking about them. But because of the way we in Africa had decided to structure and run our … Continue reading
Posted in African Business, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal Communication, The Brand Inside
Tagged Africa, Company cultures, Consumer, Democracy, Despotism, Employer, enterprise, Psychologists, work, Workplace Wellness
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Try emotion
In Africa, the Internet now provides almost universal access to global news. We’re no longer limited to stodgy newspaper coverage of national, regional and local politics. The daily trumpings of Trump, and China’s campaign to secure the planet’s strategic resources … Continue reading
Posted in African Business, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Crisis Management, Culture change, Internal brand, Internal Communication, The Brand Inside
Tagged Africa, Alchemy, Alignment, Brexit, Business, China, Company culture, Economic, Enterprises, EU, Global news, internet, Newspaper, Rory Sutherland, Trump, Universal
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Visible leadership
I’m sure many of you have watched the hit comedy series The Office in either its UK or US versions. If you haven’t, let me tell you that is one the most embarrassingly funny satires of office life that you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, African entertainment, African marketing, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal brand, Internal Communication, The Brand Inside, Workshops
Tagged Business, CEO, Leadership, Satirises, UK, US
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Marketers as CEOs
It’s been a while since I last looked into the likelihood of Marketers in East Africa reaching the C Suite, or even holding the top job in our biggest companies. My methodology tends to be qualitative, picking up data from … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal brand, Internal Communication, The Brand Inside
Tagged Academic colleagues, America, CEO candidates, CEO's, Companies, Corporate sector, east africa, enterprise, Entrepreneurs, finance, LinkedIn, marketers, Operations, Procurement, Senior business
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Incivility is counterproductive
One of the many differences between people on either side of the Millennial divide is their approach to email. Those of us who began to work before the dubious blessing of email tend to aspire to ‘zero email’ – the … Continue reading
Posted in Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal Communication, Social Media, The Brand Inside
Tagged Business, Calvinist zeal, Civil people, Colleagues, Constituencies, Customers, Email, Leaders, Millennial, work
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