Awards

AB has scooped eight awards at the ICons organised by the Institute of Internal Communication.

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Wise words

Don’t do a thing – don’t pick up the phone, write an email or organise a briefing – until you can honestly say that you understand your organisation’s strategy. Not the strategy as written in the three-year plan, but the strategy inside the minds of those who developed it and those charged with making it happen

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For newly appointed leaders of internal communications

If you are new in your role in Internal Communications, congratulations!  This is a time of great opportunity. You’ll want to make a positive impact from day one.

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Published on 1 November 2011 11:14.

 

Could your employee magazine benefit from some fresh thinking?

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Published on 30 October 2011 13:26.

Stunning, environmental portraits of people at work are helping to transform Insight magazine. After being awarded Photographer of Year by the Institute of Internal Communication, AB’s in-house photographer David Cotter has been travelling the country taking impressive portraits of the nation’s small business owners.

Insight magazine is for tenants of Network Rail Property – men and women running small and medium-sizes enterprises, from florists to fishmongers.

Published on 10 October 2011 16:01.

Is the employee engagement survey dead?

Twice this year we have been invited into organisations hard on the heels of a MORI-style employee engagement survey. The results were in but something didn’t add up.

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Published on 6 October 2011 13:02.

A fair cop

When our journalist, Gary Moss, heard that Police Community Support Officers were sometimes referred to as ‘policing on the cheap’, he made it his business to dispel the myth.
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Published on 5 October 2011 14:46.

Top class cover

This award-winning front cover of subspace magazine caught the judges’ eye at the Institute of Internal Communication.

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Published on 5 October 2011 13:53.

AB’s newest publication – Courier – is the monthly tabloid newspaper for one of Europe’s largest workforces. Its audience is the 220,000 men and women who work for Royal Mail – and its pensioners – which means Courier has a bigger circulation than The Independent.

Published on 5 October 2011 12:52.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Or perhaps even more with the right infographic.

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Published on 5 October 2011 12:35.

Top 10 crimes against plain language

These words and phrases are so obviously wrong we professional communicators would never use them. Would we? Here is a top 10 of the most overused, meaningless, confusing and downright idiotic words most often used in corporate communications. Avoid!

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Published on 5 October 2011 11:35.