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A framework for crafting an internal communications strategy

Many internal communicators work in isolation, muddling through the challenges of being strategist, advisor, content manager, part-time designer, channel...
11th April 2024

download Communications Leaders Survey 2022/23

What’s keeping communications leaders up at night? And what do they see as the big opportunities? We surveyed them to find out.

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Download your free guide to Acid Test. It explains more about this unique knowledge audit and includes case studies and client testimonials.

download When two worlds collide

Are we exploiting the benefits of the closer union of internal and external communications? We surveyed the IC community to find out.

download Good thinking Guide No. 1

Make a positive impact from day one in your new job in internal communications. Need some ideas? Our booklet has 22 of them.

Four ways to improve your content with audio

At AB, we believe the potential of audio in internal comms is huge. So, we’ve picked the following examples...
12th March 2024

Using storytelling to become a better internal communicator

Remember the teacher who told you you’d never amount to anything? Or the friend of your aunt who said...
29th February 2024

Four ways to enhance your listening skills as a leader

A huge 70% of transformation programmes fail.   It’s understandable, therefore that companies are tell us they want to do...
14th February 2024

Five ways AI will transform internal communications

When IC guru Shel Holtz joined Katie Macaulay for episode 92 of The Internal Comms Podcast, they examined the...
4th January 2024

Three ways to find the time to be more strategic

Are you in an internal comms team of one? Many are, and it can be a lonely place when...
4th December 2023

Best tools for creating IC audio content

Transform your internal communication audio experiments into winning sonic soundscapes with these platforms and AI tools. *This November we...
29th November 2023

How can IC push the envelope on EDI?

Research shows that organisations benefit from an equitable workplace. One that champions different voices and skills from all backgrounds,...
15th November 2023

4 ways to modernise your all-company meetings

In this new world of work, traditional internal communications tools don’t provide the answer you’re looking for. Reaching an...
2nd November 2023

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything

Dwight Eisenhower’s famous quote about the importance of planning reminds us the process of creating a plan is often...
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1st November 2023

How to fix any workplace problem

We encounter many problems in our working lives. Sometimes they can feel insurmountable, near impossible to fix. But according...
18th October 2023

The importance of a strong ethical culture

Ethics can be a tricky topic to communicate. But with companies needing to meet ever more regulatory and legal...
19th July 2023

In conversation with a global compliance leader

  Organisations are under ever-increasing scrutiny from regulators, shareholders, customers and their employees. The most successful will be those...
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14th July 2023

“This is big”: Internal comms professionals should be driving the ESG agenda

How would you measure the productivity of your team based on its diversity? It’s a mammoth question and one...
5th July 2023

Workplace resilience is a team sport

We’re hearing a lot about the ‘r’ word: resilience. Within the IC world this relates to an organisation’s desire...
7th June 2023

Inside Unilever: A global success story

One of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, Unilever employs over 130,000 people worldwide – an IC challenge that’s...
2nd June 2023

Speak up: physiological safety at work

Psychological safety. We’re hearing more and more about it at AB. But what is it and how can it...
10th May 2023

How to be an effective communications and engagement consultant

What does a dead hedgehog have to do with employee engagement, you ask? On a recent episode of The...
26th April 2023

Channel your energy

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23rd May 2019

Talking about mental health…

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16th May 2019

Top trends for 2019

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31st January 2019

Inviting the challenge

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29th January 2019

Content, coffee and office dogs

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21st December 2018

Held to account

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21st December 2018

Stay relevant in 2019

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21st December 2018

Talking about mental health

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10th October 2018

We Won!

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2nd October 2018

Impactful journalism

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18th September 2018

Design with vision

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6th September 2018