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Listening to the crowd

Listening to the crowd

Critical knowledge Employee engagement
By Anne McLear February 9, 2024 Off

Peter Change wants to crowdsource ideas for improvement as part of the company’s digital transformation agenda

Oh, the pain

Oh, the pain

Team work and collaboration
By Anne McLear February 8, 2024 Off

McGreasy emails 14 people seeking their inputs to the attached 42-page document

Like mushrooms

Like mushrooms

Internal communication Team work and collaboration
By Anne McLear February 7, 2024 Off

Too many channels are causing a lot of noise and having a negative impact on communication and collaboration

A hybrid meeting

A hybrid meeting

Team work and collaboration
By Anne McLear February 6, 2024 Off

Jacqui McLaw is joining the meeting from home; all others are in the room. Things do not go well

Feeding (information to) the factory workers

Feeding (information to) the factory workers

Internal communication
By Anne McLear February 5, 2024 Off

Anne McLear realises that, for factory workers, it’s not easy to keep in touch with what is happening in the company

Who can assist? Peers can

Who can assist? Peers can

Critical knowledge
By Anne McLear February 2, 2024 Off

Anne McLear plans a peer assist to leverage existing knowledge when creating the internal comms plan for the new factory

Quality-wise

Quality-wise

Critical knowledge
By Anne McLear February 1, 2024 Off

Mark McGood is worried because some procedures which are part of Cablinc’s ISO 9001:2015 certification have failed

Waste of time

Waste of time

Internal communication Team work and collaboration
By Anne McLear January 31, 2024 Off

Jon Wright did not go look for information on the intranet and ended up wasting a huge amount of time redoing work

Giving them a voice and listening

Giving them a voice and listening

Internal communication
By Anne McLear January 30, 2024 Off

Workers knew there was a problem with the machine but managers did not

Changes are afoot

Changes are afoot

General
By Anne McLear January 29, 2024 Off

Steve McGreasy is having a hard time with the changes imposed by his team’s move to Sam McCable’s

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About me

Anne McLear

My name is Anne McLear.

I'm Head of Marketing & Internal Communications at Cablinc.

I'm 45 years old. I'm married and I'm the proud mum of a 9-year-old son, Jamie.

This is my personal blog. Views are my own.

Recent posts

Listening to the crowd

Listening to the crowd

February 9, 2024 Off
Oh, the pain

Oh, the pain

February 8, 2024 Off
Like mushrooms

Like mushrooms

February 7, 2024 Off
A hybrid meeting

A hybrid meeting

February 6, 2024 Off

Anne McLear and all the characters and events at Cablinc are a fictional creation of Ana Neves of Knowman.
They are the backdrop to the Social Now conference.