Internal communication campaigns must align leaders, cross-functional stakeholders, and messaging across the organization. Below are two examples: a campaign for communicating new corporate strategy work, and another for launching a new corporate purpose statement.
This internal campaign, titled Connect the Dots, was created to communicate new corporate and business-unit strategies to all employees. Below are a few of the elements.
This set the tone, asking leaders to “connect the dots” between high-level corporate strategies and day-to-day actions of their teams. This video won an American Business Award for excellence in employee communication.
This connects ongoing corporate commitments (culture, DEI, safety, continuous improvement, and more) to strategy messaging within the "connect the dots" theme.
Creative Inspiration
One of the challenges in effective communication is bringing disparate topics together in stories and explanations seamlessly. A good metaphor helps. The "Playable Art Ball" served as inspiration. It's colorful, it's flexible, it's fun—and it makes for great storytelling. The sphere shapes were used in many additional comms pieces. These gadgets were also used as giveaways.
The colorful spheres (the "dots") served as the visual thread pulled through all elements of this campaign.
Samples of print collateral.
The challenge included pulling in existing internal themes and logos to create a cohesive story.
A 1-pager for employees provides a summary of corporate strategies and prompts them to link their work to the "big picture," underscoring the message that "every employee's work supports corporate strategy."
I used my instructional design expertise to convert the content into online learning for Leadership Development. It was later deemed so foundational that the content is now offered to all employees.
This work required buy-in from the CEO & senior leadership team. We got the green light through a presentation that included colorful (and inexpensive) bouncy balls to serve as "dots" centerpieces, which were tossed around the audience for fun. This helped to convey the look and feel we wanted to achieve: colorful, engaging, and approachable content to deliver messaging.
Here are some samples from work on an internal campaign to launch a new corporate purpose statement to all employees.
The Flagship Piece
This "Our Purpose" video set the tone for the campaign with motivational messaging and recognition that employees are the heart of the company. This won an American Business Award for excellence in employee communication.
Borrowed from the "TED Talk" concept and had the CEO give a "CMS Talk" at a corporate event.
Sourced 3D letters for the stage that were later moved to corporate headquarters for decoration and taking pictures for sharing on social media.
This is a still shot from a 3 min video to explain the work behind crafting the new purpose statement and a breakdown of its meaning. This was developed quickly (and inexpensively) in-house to align leaders across the company.
We carried the new Purpose logo through merchandise and meeting take-aways.
We used many of the walls within corporate facilities to reinforce messages.
Many leaders were inspired to create their own rewards & recognition programs for their team members who embodied corporate purpose and values.
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