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Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Late December 2021 Another year comes to a close. If we look at our exact moment in history right now, we are in the second year of a Global Pandemic, and nearly at the end of the alphabet soup of Covid variants. We are...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, December 2021 Gallup recently revealed that only 31% of the US working population describe themselves as engaged. The least engaged were leaders and mid-level managers[i]. The Great Resignation is here and it’s...
An organization with a flipped org chart is one where the people doing the talking and ideation are the same ones in the field interacting with the customer. The people doing the listening and implementing are the leaders. The traditional, top-down org chart is...
Keeping employees happy and not quitting is now a matter of business survival. Surveys still work; provided something is actually done afterwards. Five tips on making employee engagement surveys work. Fiona Passantino, October 2021. Engagement. Another email in your...
There is no fast and easy way to solve conflicts in the workplace. Rebuilding trust takes time and dedication. How these disputes are resolved is baked into the formative values of the company, and communicating this is done with a one-two punch of talking about it...
Workplace communication and our post-covid strategy Fiona Passantino, August 2021 With vaccination numbers rising, and case numbers plummeting, we’ve finally arrived. We are now at Post Covid. By now, we’ve all been in to the office at least once to wipe the dust off...
Help from the ancient storytellers to guide our Post-Covid Communication As our world becomes ever more complicated and our way of life more fragile, we need the skills of the ancient Storyteller and the tools of the Epic and metaphor to deliver us the information we...
Jump start more effective workplace communication by messaging with pictures rather than words. During a crisis, frightened humans need two things with equal urgency: the rapid communication of crucial facts and the feeling that we are not alone, that we are in this...
Covid-19 has shown us what it means to be isolated, disconnected and alone. As the post-pandemic world rebuilds itself, we will need to get serious about signalling our seriousness about diversity, inclusion and belonging to an ever-wider group of people. Visual...
What is Post Covid communication? Our challenges are bigger: our stories more complex, our audiences global and disparate and in need of connection. We need authentic listening, not top-down broadcasting. We need the ability to shape communication from the ground up...
Covid-19 has shown us what it means to be isolated, disconnected and alone. As the post-pandemic world rebuilds itself, we will need to get serious about signaling our seriousness about diversity, inclusion and belonging to an ever-wider group of people. Visual...
Imagine your own casually dysfunctional family. At home you have high-performers and low performers, people who are more detail-oriented and those who prefer to see the big picture. There are some who don’t quite fit the group culture and some that are visibly more...
