ConnectMinds London
Employee Communications | Digital | Experience | Impact
online mindmeet - using zoom
Date: 25. March 2020
Time: 10.30am - 12pm
(Lau will be available to continue after 12pm, if anyone has unfinished business they wish to stay on and discuss)
Location: ZOOM (online meeting tool)
Requirements: Access to the Zoom tool.
We’ll use Zoom’s features to prioritise the topics and to facilitate the discussion.
Ideally, use a camera too as this supports the effectiveness and enhances the quality of remote conversations.
Your input: you can post topics for discussion on Workplace.
Agenda
Handling the impact of COVID-19
The unfolding global crisis caused by the rapid spread of the Corona virus means we are all facing many new and entirely unprecedented scenarios: no crisis and emergency scenario plan will have been able to foresee all the astonishing fallouts from a truly global phenomenon, so pervasive and limiting that we are all having to re-think most aspects of our daily lives.
Clear, reliable and consistent communication is crucial; from decision makers, authorities and employers everywhere. Employees in large organisations need to know the relevant facts; forthcoming changes, immediate impact on their roles, work patterns, locations etc.
ConnectMinds hosted a network-wide online community conference on Thursday 12. March. Members exchanged ideas and early experiences, discussed challenges and helped each other out. We will do the same in the group and look at the input that has been generated by the network thus far.
Could the Corona Crisis be a turning point for Employee Comms and Digital Workplaces?
The crisis we are experiencing right now requires immediate action. Not in two hours or in two days. Is your organization able to actually reach out to all employees at a moment’s notice; as in right now if they need to? Most are not.
Unfortunately, many companies have chosen to save here. Licensing costs, lack of understanding of the complexity of running and effective communication set up in a large, fragmented organisation, lack of vision or of the understanding of the potential of an effective set up - and often it’s all of the above…
The Covid-19 crisis has clearly shown that communication to, with and between employees can be vitally important and thus justify the investment in good internal communication. Thus, this is undoubtedly a crucial moment for the communications department because it highlights whether the organization is able to communicate effectively in a crisis that is unprecedented both in scale and in terms of the number of unknowns.
Is the organization able reach everyone, to ensure understanding of required action, compliance etc in order to reduce the risk of infection? Or are you having to spend valuable time retrieving private phone numbers or emails from different databases, because you have not invested in an effective and robust setup that has been maintained and is well structured, easy to use etc.?
This could be a turning point. It will be crystal clear after this that internal communication channels can no longer be considered a less important "nice-to-have". We discuss what we can do to demonstrate and highlight this. -And how to ensure that the ghastly things we go through right now will lead to positive change for our area and have a lasting legacy.
Other Challenges & Opportunities
We are still open to discuss non-Corona related topics. Bring ANY topic or question you would like to discuss in the group; something you would like expert feedback (opinions...) on or something that is currently proving challenging.
Be ready to talk through a little context and the sort of feedback you are looking for. Try to be as specific as possible. Ideally, share a brief description of it on Workplace
Group leader
Lau Hesselbæk Andreasen
Email: lha@WeConnectMinds.com
Mobile: +45 29 73 26 06
Don't hesitate to write or call if you want to discuss anything with me. -Right up to meeting start!
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