Times are getting tougher:  will your staff stay with you?

Over the next two years, every organisation (in both Public and Private sectors) will confront the need for radical change – including job-losses.

Previous recessions and “tough-times” have delivered the lesson that this is the moment to invest time and effort on internal communications.

Right now, your key employees will be worrying about their jobs!

This makes them responsive to the siren appeal of your competitors.

In truth, you may need to reduce your pay-roll and head-count:  but you will not want to lose those key people.

How are you handling this crucial, and delicate, issue?

This is the moment to upgrade your internal communications.

What does that mean?

•    Use this moment to conduct an “internal communications audit” – demonstrating your commitment to improving internal communications, and capturing the views/concerns of employees;
•    Use the results of that audit to improve your internal communications (this could be as simple as introducing team-briefing and using such simple formulae as notice-boards);
•    Re-think your current internal communications:  too many organisations have “ticked the box” by assuming that an intranet and e-mail is sufficient communication.  It is not! There is no easy, online alternative (during difficult times) to “walking the shop-floor” and ensuring mechanisms for every employee to meet the boss and have a means of telling the boss what should be happening.

What do we know?

SVD has delivered transforming internal communications solutions for many clients in difficult times, including –

•    Alamo Rent-a-Car
•    Battens solicitors
•    British Airways
•    British Telecom
•    Clarke Willmott solicitors
•    Cuprinol
•    Etc….we could go on through the alphabet!