Category: Organisational culture
What do deskless workers really need from communication teams?
This week we have launched the findings from our recent Remotely Interested? research. This was a repeat of the survey we carried out in 2019 ...
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Embracing neurodiversity to build stronger work relationships
Back in May, I spent a couple of days at the Simply IC conference in London, soaking in knowledge and sharing my own insights as ...
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Remotely interested? … reloaded for 2023
The research is complete and we can’t wait to share the findings! Four years ago, we completed research into the success of internal communication with ...
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5 tips to build stronger global teams
In this week’s podcast episode of Redefining Communications with Jenni Field, we spoke to Sarah Black, a Redefining Communications collective partner, who works as a ...
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Four tips to ensure a smooth separation
Anyone involved in the recruitment process knows it takes a lot of time and effort to find the right candidates and onboard them effectively. Not ...
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What are the stages of the employee lifecycle?
The employee lifecycle typically consists of six stages: attraction, recruitment, onboarding, development, retention, and separation. Each stage presents its own challenges and opportunities, so it’s ...
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How to get business outcomes for clients
In this episode of A View From The Top, Adrian Cropley talks to Jenni about her career trajectory from communication officer to business entrepreneur and ...
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Does unconscious bias training work?
We work with clients to help them build a more inclusive workplace – something that should be on the agenda for all organisations. We support ...
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Measuring culture in organisations
We’ve all heard the stories of free food at Twitter and pool tables at Google. As someone who has worked in the technology industry for ...
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Streamline your corporate communication to drive efficiency and engagement
In this podcast episode of ICON by Sparrow Connected, Jenni speaks to Julie Ford, Sparrow Connected Head of Content, as together they challenge conventional thinking about internal ...
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Why communication is the antidote to organisational chaos
As leaders, we’re often tackling a range of organisational issues, including: lack of accountability, toxic culture, team friction, a disengaged workforce, or people blocking change. ...
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Three ways to improve your relationships at work
We’ve recently been watching the latest docu-series of Couples Therapy, which follows four couples over six months of weekly treatment. It’s addictive and the fascinating ...
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The dynamics of trust in the workplace
The human. The communicator. The leader. These are three roles that all require a level of trust. We need to trust the people we have ...
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Why a four-day work week isn’t the answer
Flexible working has been on the rise for a while now, and with good reason. Allowing employees to tailor their work schedules to fit their ...
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Five steps that can reunite a leadership team
As a leader have you ever been in a meeting where someone says, “Are we all on the same page?” And everyone nods obediently, only ...
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Effective internal communication for frontline workers in a post pandemic world
In many cases, frontline workers were hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. They may have experienced job loss or furlough, or communication issues while businesses ...
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Have we forgotten how to be in work relationships?
In this article for Forbes Business Council, Jenni Field shares three things you can do today if you’re starting to see symptoms of your teams ...
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How can we get people to step up, take responsibility and get shit done?
This is a great question. And at the heart of the answer is the need to understand a bit more about motivation. There are lots ...
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Six simple ways to avoid the Great Resignation
One of the most used phrases of 2021 and 2022 has been the Great Resignation. Despite some people thinking that this is a myth (myself ...
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How a communication audit can help you be less chaotic
Internal communication audits can be hugely helpful in exploring how you change your internal communication channel mix. This is about looking at how people receive ...
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Checking in with your culture and why the Great Resignation isn’t all bad
The Great Resignation has put an even bigger emphasis on the importance of company culture in recruitment and retention. In this article published by Kogan Page ...
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Building a positive and inclusive workplace
We’ve been working with BAE Systems for four years as an extension of the communications team, supporting a wide range of activities. We were asked ...
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How to avoid team friction – from poles apart to pulling together
“We have to allow ourselves to be prepared to be convinced by opposing arguments. We must revisit conclusions as we receive new and relevant information, ...
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How to build a cohesive and diverse culture that’s fit for purpose
In this episode of Don’t Shoot the Messenger, Vicki Marinker talks to Jenni about corporate culture, the challenges facing the physical workplace and how to ...
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What is organisational culture and is it important?
Following a podcast interview with Vicki Marinker – Don’t Shoot The Messenger – here I share my thoughts and suggestions on how to build a ...
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Communication trends in 2022 – and how they’re changing more slowly than we’d like!
It’s that time of year when our social media feeds start to fill with blogs about forecasts, trends and themes to look out for in ...
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Five myths about hybrid working
I recently co-hosted a webinar with best-selling author of Remote Work, Chris Dyer, to explore the pitfalls and assumptions around hybrid working – one of ...
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Hybrid or herring?
In this article for HR Director, Jenni discusses hybrid working. All our focus and effort is being channelled into defining the hybrid workforce. But is ...
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Webinar: How to future-proof your culture for the new world of work
The global pandemic has given us a rare opportunity to redefine work and society. But as we navigate these changes we must pay close attention ...
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Supporting growth with ongoing communication consultancy and workshops
Redefining Communications first began working with The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (North East LEP) in 2019. The North East LEP is a public, private ...
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Diversity and inclusion: why we need to invest in ourselves and take action to drive change
A few weeks ago I spent a day at a diversity and inclusion workshop. It was through my work with the CIPR and it was ...
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Culture shock – why we need to be more intentional when communicating organisational culture
I’ve been writing and speaking a lot recently about culture and the return to the office. It’s becoming the topic for everyone in business as ...
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Out in the Field – Evolution Project
Back in 2017, we started working with Evolution Project to take founder, James Llewellyn, and his team through The Field Model™ to address symptoms of ...
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Culture shock – why we need to be more intentional when communicating organisational culture
I’ve been writing and speaking a lot recently about culture and the return to the office. It’s becoming the topic for everyone in business as ...
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From panic to purpose in a post-pandemic world
Jenni was recently the keynote speaker at the PRSA Employee Communications conference. The theme of the event was communicating with intention and Jenni shared her thoughts ...
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Inspiring Goodies – Remote Work, Ted Lasso and Sideways
Remote Work I’ve just been reading the book Remote Work by Chris Dyer and Kim Shepherd. We share the same publishers and Chris and I ...
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The pandemic revolution
It’s going to take us 25 years to reap the true benefits of flexible working… that’s if the industrial revolution is anything to go by. ...
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Why we’ve signed up to support the Better Business Act
Redefining Communications has recently signed up to support the Better Business Act, which calls for every company in the UK to align the interest of ...
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How to return to the workplace (or not) – in a post-COVID world
This article is a snippet from the Inspiring Workplaces eBook, which is packed with lots of suggestions from the top 101 influencers. Jenni was asked ...
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Finding calm in a global crisis
In this article for CIPR International about finding calm in a global crisis, Jenni discusses The Field Model™ and the impact of globalisation on organisations. ...
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Hybrid working
Jenni hosts this discussion on CIPR’s quarterly Engage podcast. Jenni explores the different definitions of hybrid working and highlights the influence of organisational culture in adapting to ...
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Line managers need investment in communication skills and relevant content from the centre
Throughout March and April, we carried out some research into the role of line managers in organisations. This is for line managers to tell us ...
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Out in the Field – Gallagher Employee Experience and Communication
Back in 2019 Ben Reynolds, Managing Director of Gallagher’s Employee Experience and Communication division, engaged Jenni to implement The Field Model™ and explore the reality ...
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How fear and culture will impact hybrid working
In February I wrote about hybrid working and asked if the term is a red herring for leaders. In the blog I said: “So rather ...
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Keep calm: fix organisational chaos, streamline communication and drive engagement
Organisations are complex. People are complex. It takes time and some difficult conversations to find calm amongst the chaos. This article – Keep calm: fix ...
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There is my truth, there is your truth, and there is fact
In this blog, which was originally featured in Influence, I talk about being mindful of interpretation. A few years ago, I was at lunch with ...
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How to communicate your way from chaos to calm
In this article, Jenni Field talks to The Institute of Leadership & Management to discuss her thoughts on how great internal communication can help leaders ...
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Inspiring Goodies: the people who inspire me, five seconds and leaders with purpose
What’s inspired me in the last month? Here are three things you can listen to (podcast episode and a book) and read (book and report)! ...
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How to be human
From the start of the day I was hooked. It was an event that had speakers I was connected with on social channels, but hadn’t ...
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Line managers under the microscope
New research into the role of line managers! Line managers matter; they hold the key to many challenges inside organisations. They are one of the key ...
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Psychological safety and trust are not the same thing
I have been listening to and reading The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmondson. It’s a book that was recommended to me by Dr Kevin Ruck, co-founder of the ...
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Why competitive busyness is toxic for you and others around you
I talk a lot about productivity, setting boundaries and managing attention. In the last six months I have seen a huge increase in a sense ...
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What is The Field Model™?
The Field Model™ came from a conversation about how I describe what I do. Over the years the need to be mindful, explore other perspectives ...
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What is Mental Resilience?
As a mental resilience trainer, John Humphreys’ goal is to help people learn the art of resilience. John is part of the Redefining Communications collective ...
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Why being more specific in 2021 is essential for organisations
At the end of last year, I asked my community across LinkedIn and Twitter what they thought the trends were going to be for business ...
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Spotting burnout: seven ways to solve your stress cycle
I’ve been doing a lot of research recently into mental resilience, reading about the increasing burnout, stress and loneliness we’re experiencing; the sense of being ...
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Why routine and focus is a challenge right now
This week I finished listening to the audio version of Ross Edgley’s Art of Resilience. He talks a lot about circadian rhythm in the book ...
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Podcast going live!
Starting a podcast has been a topic that has been bubbling around for me over the last year. A few people have suggested doing one ...
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The power of silence
Internal Miscommunications podcast – Jenni talks about how moments of miscommunications in her past triggered chaos, what she learned from those experiences and how she ...
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Workplace technology – friend or foe?
Are organisations using technology ethically to help keep us safe and well, or is it a covert way to keep tabs on us now we’re ...
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How to remove bias in the attracting stage
We attended the CIPD Future of Work conference last month and it sparked a number of ideas, the most timely being around the importance of ...
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How to recapture your work rhythm during and after a crisis
This week I took part in a webinar with Dynamic Signal to talk about how we need to consider the rhythm of work after the crisis. We ...
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When home-working isn’t always the future you think it is
Since we all shifted to working from home I have been wondering; what will cities and offices look like in the future and what will ...
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How do ‘Connected Companies’ communicate in a crisis?
This morning I joined Hannah Sardar from Workplace by Facebook for a webinar hosted by the team (Graham Mackay and Jack Paine) at Generation Digital. ...
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Building a business case for internal communications
StreamGO podcast – This episode takes a close look at research conducted by Jenni: Remotely Interested, to discover why non-desk based workers are one of the ...
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Big words, little meaning – what do we mean by measurement?
I have presented on some big topics over the last few months – measurement being one of them. In the last two sessions I showed ...
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Mental health – the topic we love to talk about but hate to deal with
Mental well-being is a topic that more and more people are talking about as our society continues to evolve at pace with pressures from all ...
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Don’t invade the canteen!
Communicating to remote or deskless workers has been one of the biggest challenges for organisations for years. Professional communicators have talked about this barrier, but ...
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How do you achieve great communication in a multi-site organisation?
Last year Lee Sheldon, founder of Mastering Multi-Units (MMU) invited me onto his podcast to talk about my experience in supporting organisations communicate with a ...
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What is the state of the sector in 2018?
Last week I attended the Gatehouse (Gallagher Communications) State of the Sector research*. It was an insightful morning with some good debate in the room ...
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