Blog: Culture and Localisation

How many times do you think you uttered the words, “you’re on mute” last year? The pandemic shifted how and where we work overnight and organisations had to quickly adapt. For L&D teams this meant two huge shifts:

“We know that having a good company culture with engaged employees leads to happier employees, but employee engagement doesn’t happen automatically. We work for it.”

Zeynep Turudi is an exporting superstar. 17 years ago she had the idea to bring authentic vegetarian Turkish Delight to England and so she created the confectionary brand Truede.

Internal communications are about more than sharing financial reports and staff birthdays. The McKinsey Global Institute highlights that productivity can increase by 20 to 25% in companies where employees are connected.

You may think that misspelt foreign language tattoos were left behind in the back-street tattoo parlours of the 2000s. Still, a spate of celebrity incidents has reminded us of the need to think before we ink.

We are in uncharted waters – and there has never been a greater need for effective internal communications. Global businesses have dramatically increased the volume of their internal communications in light of the Coronavirus crisis when the need to unite and inform employees is greater than ever.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen global companies adopt various communication strategies in response to the Coronavirus crisis – with vastly different results!

Providing consistent training for a global workforce is no easy task. The more countries you need to engage with, the more hoops you need to jump through to deliver engaging eLearning content.

Working with eLearning agencies who support organisations across many different sectors, I find they are often united by the same challenges.