How to Demonstrate the Value of Internal Communications and get noticed by your Boss
One of the biggest challenges internal communicators face right now is proving the success and value of their internal communications strategy to the organisation.
In this webinar, denise cox, Newsweaver’s lead communication consultant, and Marc Wright, Publisher of simply communicate, share insights, tips and examples on how to measure your communications and how you can demonstrate business value to your organisation.
What you will take away:
- How to turn raw data into meaningful metrics
- How to prove business value and ROI to the organisation
- How to get a seat at the top table where strategic decisions are made
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Demonstrate the Value of Internal Communications … and get noticed by your boss
1. Demonstrate the Value of Internal Communications
… and get noticed by your boss
denise cox, Lead communications consultant, Newsweaver
Marc Wright, Publisher, simply-communicate
2. EMPLOYEE
ENGAGEMENT
Interactive Emails
SOCIAL
CONVERSATIONS
Interact and Engage
Employees
INSIGHT &
MEASUREMENT
Understand
Communication
Performance
DISTRIBUTION
TEAM
COMMUNICATION
Alligned & Branded
Local Comms
EVENT
REGISTRATION
Event calendaring
made easy
INTERNAL
CONNECT
Newsweaver Internal Connect
3. 400 blue-chip and FTSE 100 organizations in 97 countries use
Newsweaver Internal Connect to help them inform, engage and inspire employees
5. Agenda
You are of value
Communication channels
Data into meaningful metrics
Demonstrate business value
Get noticed
Q&A
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8. Companies that are highly effective at internal
communication are 1.7 times more likely to
outperform their peers
Source: Towers Watson 2011 – 2012 Change and Communication ROI Report
9. Companies highly effective at both communication
and change management are 2.5 times more
likely to outperform their peers as companies that
are not highly effective in either area
Source: Towers Watson 2011 – 2012 Change and Communication ROI Report
10. Nearly two-thirds of the companies surveyed
report that line managers are taking on more
responsibility when it comes to communication
with employees
Source: Towers Watson 2011 – 2012 Change and Communication ROI Report
11. A 25% increase from 2009-2010 in senior executives
getting on board with internal communication.
Today 60% of senior executives say they’re making a
stronger effort toward internal networking, with more
leaders engaging with managers and front line staff
Source: VMA Group - a UK based IC recruitment company
22. Intranet
Top five popular destinations:
1. Directory
2. Human Resources DIY
3. Expenses
4. Room bookings
5. Canteen menu
23. Intranet
Intranet teams are measuring the wrong things; traffic, hits and
page views. Is more traffic automatically a good thing? No.
The number one complaint about Intranets: “It’s a WASTE OF
TIME!”
A good Intranet? Delivers true value to your organization; saving
time for your employees.
Source: Gerry McGovern
24. 1. Search terms used
2. Sections visited
3. Average time spent on the Intranet per employee
4. # of page views per employee
5. % and frequency of employees that view content
6. % and frequency of employees that contribute or update content
7. Level of employee satisfaction with the Intranet
Source: Worldwide Intranet Challenge global partnership
7 essential Intranet metrics
29. Your content communicates effectively
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You use insight and measurement
You share your success
You communicate effectively
Your leaders communicate effectively
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5 steps to
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30. Visit our Learning Center at www.newsweaver.com/internal-communications
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Twitter: @newsweaver_ic
Website: www.newsweaver.com
31. To view the full webinar click here
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Notes de l'éditeur
REASON FOR THIS STAT: Why your org should invest in IC
Talking point around this slide: is this widely recognised a stat as it should be?
This is the one to tell your boss.
REASON FOR STAT: Good internal communication can accelerate change
Talking point: what a lot of you will be facing as we come out of recession will be change.
So good comms is as important as ever, but more impactful to the bottom line than ever as well.
Reason for this stat: IC gives value for money
This is a really important point, is that it doesn’t really have to cost you more, because good internal communications,
if line managers are taking more responsibility and giving the messages better, you know it’s FREE.
It doesn’t cost you any more, it’s human beings giving the messages,
Your job is to coach and influence leaders and managers.
Point here: Important news has to come from the top- execs are beginning to see that IC can facilitate getting their message top down to the employee
So the role of IC here is the mentoring and the training, and knowing when the message needs to ‘come from the top’ and when it can be from the line manager.
Mark says ‘we’ve got to stop ‘managing communications’ and start helping managers to communicate.
Sets the stage for knowing the tools you have to communicate … and we’ll pick a few to focus on.
Last year social networking tools was 4.6% is now at 12.9%
These stats have remained very consistent over the years (last study was 2011), hardly moved at all but social has tripled it’s gone from 6% to 12%. Social is growing. We know at simply that 10% of our members had a social network, today that’s 20%. So if you look forward into the future obviously as social continues to grow, something’s going to have to give. And what is it that’s going to have to give? That’s the key thing here. what’s interesting here
We’re going to focus on technology, email intranet and social.
2013 Newsweaver/Melcrum Almost 60% “can not measure the impact of our corporate messages”,
This is not good enough - so this is something as a professional communicator you focus on your measurement tools…
TIE BACK to having seat at the table.
If you haven’t got data, you haven’t got a seat at the table. if you don’t measure, you don’t matter.
Quick slide.
What you want to measure, what are your objectives
Rather than retrospectively looking at loads of data coming in and then deciding what you are measuring.
Tease out this list
If you are having trouble measuring your communications, a very good way to do it is to use email and your dashboard
You can embed anything, you can measure anything
Anything online is so much easier to measure than trying to ask them about a live event as they come out.
if you are linking to the videos that were taken at a live event, via your emails, at least you’ll be able to know how many videos were looked at.
If you’re using an email newsletter signposting to the intranet, you’ll see what topics are proving more popular.
Make clever use of channels that do generate data for you – for example drive your other channel strategies through email where you can measure results.
Talking point here is data available from email
Rather than creating a successful intranet, talking about mining data and what data is available?
Pepole don’t really trust their data for their intranets, its really interesting. None of our case studies give us that data, because they think its terrible (only 9% of the people are visiting the intranet) or they don’t measure it at all, which is in most cases, or it’s sensitive data. We don’t have any data at all.
Those that do measure, what do they measure? Is it visits,
What are the data metrics that
Those that do measure, what do they measure? Top five pages are: directory, HR, expense, room bookings, and the canteen menu.
This is a really important channel for communicators, put it way up there just after email. The problem with it is that they vary enormously from company to company . Some companies where employees hate the intranet, it’s a dirty word, to other companies where employees are on it all the time.
AEP is probably the world’s most successful intranet.
People don’t really share their data for their intranets, none of simply case studies give us that data, low stats, either low visits or don’t measure at all. Or they feel its sensitive. So simply don’t have any data.
Many do measure it.
One of the problems with Sharepoint you have to have a special module to get the statistics, expensive, sharepoint 2007 measurement is not strong.
What are we trying to show with intranet, similar to what we’ve done with email.
What raw metrics come from the intranet
"Intranet teams are measuring the wrong things; traffic, hits and page views. Is more traffic a good thing? Why? Do you think the Toyota web team has been jumping for joy because of the recent traffic spike on its websites?"
Rather than creating a successful intranet, talking about mining data and what data is available?
People don’t really trust their data for their intranets, its really interesting. None of our case studies give us that data, because they think its terrible
Only 9% measure their intranet - or they don’t measure it at all, which is in most cases, or it’s sensitive data. We don’t have any data at all.
Those that do measure, what do they measure? Is it visits,
What are the data metrics that
Those that do measure, what do they measure? Top five pages are: directory, HR, expense, room bookings, and the canteen menu.
AEP is probably the world’s most successful intranet.
People don’t really share their data for their intranets, none of simply case studies give us that data, low stats, either low visits or don’t measure at all. Or they feel its sensitive. So simply don’t have any data.
Many do measure it.
One of the problems with Sharepoint you have to have a special module to get the statistics, expensive, sharepoint 2007 measurement is not strong.
What are we trying to show with intranet, similar to what we’ve done with email.
What raw metrics come from the intranet
What are the types of info you can access.
This is a really important channel for communicators, put it way up there just after email. The problem with it is that they vary enormously from company to company . Some companies where employees hate the intranet, it’s a dirty word, to other companies where employees live on it all the time.
William behind AEP, most successful intranet. (can we find stats on what he measures)
Why not measuring, hard to measure.
Because they can’t don’t have tools (ie google analytics)
Or results are so horrible they don’t want to talk about them.
Get away from hits and start looking at network analytics, which department is spreading information, and more readily?
more complex than you rwebsite, rather than simply looking at hits, set targets such as saving each person in the company five minutes a day by using the intrnalet.
Raw, how evaluate how report on it… quantative vs. qualitative research that simply did with their membership in terms of saying ‘why are you doing it’
What’s driving it?
So is that the data you’ll be looking for. What metrics are available are available to prove this..
This point is a look at metrics, and what’s available. Turning data into
Every company is different, we’re showing not how to do it, but companies who have been able to do so, and what they’ve demonstrated.
This is how face to face
Faith in leadership went up
Within 3 months employee satisfaction went up, and in turn customer satisfaction went up
If you point 2 – you’re competing with professional media today. Your comms has to be as good as professionally produced media.
Point 3 -