We are living in interesting times. Like everyone else, I feel as though I’m living ...
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Last week I ran a writing workshop on behalf of the Institute of Internal Communication ...
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Last night at the CIPR Inside AGM it was announced that I will be stepping ...
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In Birmingham earlier this month, CIPR Inside started to change the conversation in internal communication ...
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"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both ...
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Companies all around the world have values. Many of them will include words like ‘Trust’, ...
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If you watched the recent TV show Chernobyl, you will have undoubtedly been fascinated by ...
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How many internal communicators have a leader who’s a seemingly effortless storyteller drawing comparisons to someone ...
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Internal comms is all about relationships. Sadly, they can quickly sour when work doesn’t meet ...
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“If you want to be a writer, you’re living in the past.” This was one ...
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It’s been three years since I set up Helen Deverell Communications. It feels like a ...
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It’s a dreary Tuesday morning in February when an email pings into every employees’ inbox ...
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Trying to engage people with a notoriously dry but incredibly important topic? Look no further… ...
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Have you ever run an engagement survey only to be told by leaders to not ...
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Surveys are a great way to gain feedback from your employees, especially when they form ...
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I’m frequently asked to run internal communication audits for clients and it’s one of my ...
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On 6 and 7 November, internal communicators gathered for the annual PR Week Strategic Internal ...
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This month I was asked to appear in a segment on the ITV morning show ...
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I was thrilled to recently find out that I’m now a Fellow of the Institute ...
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Once upon a time email was the answer to all our problems. But in recent ...
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Often the perception of internal communication is far from where we want it to be ...
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Why focus groups are a great reminder of the privileged role we play inside organisations ...
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It can feel pretty lonely when you’re an IC team of one, being pulled in ...
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On Thursday I was thrilled to find out I had passed my CIPR Specialist Diploma ...
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On 12 June I took part in a panel discussion at AB Thinks Live, a ...
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“There’s a 1000 years of experience in this room.” Benjamin Ellis set the tone for ...
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It takes one person to have an idea, a second person to validate it and ...
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Conferences and networking events are an opportunity to learn, share ideas and network. But for some ...
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It’s a few days on from IoIC Live 18 and my brain is still buzzing ...
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Measurement that demonstrates the value we add as internal communicators is essential if we're to ...
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As more and more organisations try to attract diverse talent, is it time we took ...
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Like 80s pop star Rick Astley, internal comms campaigns can often be one hit wonders ...
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I recently had the exciting opportunity to take part in a Chuck Chats webinar, hosted ...
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What IC pros can learn from comedian extraordinaire, John Oliver, about making the complex simple ...
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Chickens and communication don’t usually have a lot in common. But in recent weeks the ...
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This week I had the honour of chatting to the excellent Chuck Gose as part ...
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A story about how internal communication brought me a little closer to a grandad I ...
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Considering making the leap from in-house to agency? Unsure about what to expect? In this ...
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GDPR is coming and internal communicators need to be prepared. Coming into effect on 25 ...
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The ability for people to differentiate between urgent and important is difficult at the best ...
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From Taylor Swift to Uber, gender pay gap to GDPR, reputation keeps hitting the headlines ...
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On Monday I attended #SmileLondon hosted by Simply Communicate. As always it was an event ...
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We all know professional development is important, but when you barely have time to make ...
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This is what the CIPR Inside committee wanted to find out through their first ever ...
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Soggy bottoms, erect biscuit structures and a rather inappropriately shaped snail. It can only mean ...
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This November communicators will be gathering to learn about and discuss the Future Digital Workplace ...
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The perks of being an internal communicator are well-documented, but even the best jobs have ...
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At the Making it Count conference in November, the CIPR Inside committee will be revealing ...
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In this week’s #ICBookClub, we discussed Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed, a book about ...
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Have you heard the one about the security guy, the IT pro and the safety ...
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As more and more business leaders are sitting up and taking notice of internal comms, ...
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Last night I took part in CIPR Inside’s #ICBookClub on Twitter, expertly run by Annique ...
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Having spent last weekend judging a few categories in the IoIC awards, the topic of ...
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At some point in our career, we’ve all received a brief that’s vague at best ...
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Being married to an engineer has its advantages and disadvantages. There are times when walking ...
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Chat bots, social amplification, and ESNs were just some of the key themes to come ...
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Magpie syndrome: an irrational affinity for shiny objects. Or in the case of IC pros, ...
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It’s been a whole year since I set up Helen Deverell Communications and I’ve spent ...
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Communicators are well-versed in answering the age-old question, “what is it you actually do?”. But ...
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Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of delivering my first Writing Masterclass in London to ...
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Fictional political press secretaries have long been immortalised on our TV screens. We’ve aspired to ...
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Ever wished you could time travel? Chances are if you work in internal communications, you ...
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I love stories. As a little girl I would lose myself in books. One minute ...
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There’s a great quote that goes “Don’t envy what people have, emulate what they did ...
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‘Greenery’ has been officially announced as the Pantone Color of the Year 2017. I have ...
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I’m thrilled to be a media partner of Transform Magazine’s Employer Brand Management conference. It’s ...
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Being a communicator can be pretty awesome. We get to wear many hats whether it’s ...
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Humans have been storytelling for thousands of years, however it was often confined to the ...
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Have you ever had your hair cut beautifully by someone who has theirs scraped back ...
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An internal communicator, HR manager, and an L&D manager all walk into a CEO’s office ...
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I was thrilled to be asked to judge one of the categories in the IoIC awards ...
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Internal communicators have been rolling their eyes for a while now, as our organisations slowly ...
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As a member of the CIPR Inside committee, I’ve been involved in planning the next ...
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Imagine if Mozart had been so afraid of people’s reactions to his music, that he ...
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Community is making a comeback. While we still may not know our neighbours, many of ...
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While you could argue the likes of Jessica Ennis, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah aren’t ...
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Ahead of my writing masterclass in November and my guest spot on #commschat this Monday ...
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In a world of wonky comms, do internal communicators still need writing skills? Absolutely. I ...
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"We need a creative idea and we need it now.” The phrase guaranteed to send ...
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How often do we as internal communicators take the time to look ahead and consider ...
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When we were planning #ioiclive16, we knew we wanted to be bold, to challenge thinking ...
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With my first full week as a freelancer firmly under my belt and a glass of wine ...
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Gun salutes, beacon lighting and a cake baked by the winner of the Great British ...
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A while ago a friend asked me how many followers I had on Twitter. When ...
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As an internal communicator, I’m used to being invited to take deep dives off burning ...
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Every couple of months I have the same conversation with my colleague Paul Thomas. I ...
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Let’s face it, who wouldn’t? Rachel Miller has very kindly donated a day’s consultancy and ...
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At the beginning of June I returned to work following a six-month absence to receive ...
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I wanted to share with fellow introverts an exciting new development from Susan Cain, author ...
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Since my recent breast cancer diagnosis, I’ve been a member of the Younger Breast Cancer ...
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In this age of social media, there is a running joke that it didn’t really ...
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Having reached the one year milestone in my first in-house role, I’ve found myself reflecting ...
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There's not many conferences where people happily give up their Saturday to attend and the excitement ...
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As a child I dreamed of being in the centre of the hustle and bustle ...
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It’s not often you get to while away the afternoon in a TV studio all ...
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Having faced accusations of being too quiet or shy for most of my life, I ...
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In keeping with the theme of ‘the future’, I predicted on Twitter that the IoIC ...
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Awards ceremonies used to be glamorous Hollywood affairs where actors and actresses were congratulated and ...
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