Inner Communications: Planning the Plan

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Inner Communications: Planning the Plan Inner Communications: Planning the Strategy Many companies concentrate on communicating with their crowds that are outside; segmenting markets, studying, developing tactics and messages. Focus and this same care should be turned inside to create an internal communications plan. Effective internal communication preparation empowers small and big organizations to produce a procedure for information distribution as a means of addressing organizational dilemmas. Before inner communications preparation can start some basic questions have to be answered. -- what is the company's state? Question questions. Do a little research. One kind of research is to take a survey. How's your company doing? What do your employees think about the company? Some may be surprised by how much employees care and want to make their workplaces. You can also uncover some hard truths or understandings. These records will help lay a basis for what messages are conveyed and how they may be communicated. -- What do we need to be when we grow-up? That is where a company can define the culture they want to represent the organization's future. Most companies have an external mission statement. The statement might concentrate on customer service, continuous learning, quality, or striving to be the biggest firm in the marketplace with the sales, but to function as the very best firm using the highest satisfaction ratings. As goals are accomplished, inner communication targets should be measurable, and will change over time or priorities change. For instance, the fiscal situation of a company might be its greatest concern. One objective may be to decrease spending. How can everyone help decrease spending? This will be communicated through multiple routes, multiple times, backed up by management behaviour, and after that measured, and then advance reported to staff. -- How can we best convey our messages? Internal communication channels or approaches include: supervisor to employee, employee to employee, small assemblies, big meetings, personal letter or memo, video, e mail, bulletin board, special occasion, and newsletter. Some studies have proven this list to be in order of the majority of successful. But this could depend on the individual organization. Not effectively, although some companies may make Role of internal communications use of them all. As the saying goes, "content is king." One of the worst things a company can do is talk a whole lot, although not really say anything at all.

With an effective internal communications strategy in place a firm will be able build knowledge of firm goals, to address staff concerns, and facilitate change initiatives. By answering a few basic questions businesses truly create an organization greater than the total of its parts and can begin communicating more efficiently with team members.


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