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How West Vancouver Got Personal | Internal Communication Tools

Summary: The District of West Vancouver needed a better internal communication tool for employees to connect with one another, simplify and maintain useful contact, and communication with their 750+ employees. The District of West Vancouver is a district municipality in British Columbia. It is home to over 40,000 people, and more than 750 full-time equivalent employees. With a sprawling collection of diverse employees, and facing an ever-growing workforce, the District of West Vancouver needed a better for employees find each other, simplify and maintain useful contact, and keep track of what's going on in their organization. Intranet Connections delivered

https://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/west-van-client-stories/
By | 2018-09-24T16:19:02+00:00 September 24, 2018|Employee Engagement|
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Employee Engagement: Strategies to Have Fun at Work

Summary: SEDC has worked hard to make a community that their employees are proud to be a part of. Here are 10 employee engagement strategies they developed to make their employees have fun at work and feel valued. A few months ago, I had a member of our support team share a recording he had with a very enthusiastic customer of ours. Their call started off as normal, but Chris noticed when he was remoting in on John's computer that their intranet had so much character, so many widgets and images, he was intrigued and asked to see more of

https://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/have-fun-at-work/
By | 2018-09-27T13:28:01+00:00 September 19, 2018|Employee Engagement|
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Promote Your Corporate Social Responsibility

Summary:  Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly important to employees and consumer. It may be time to create a plan to promote your CSR activities internally. CSR has been at the forefront of many company business plans at an extraordinarily increasing rate over the past 5-10 years. According to SCORE, the number of companies publishing a CSR report has skyrocketed since 2011: 2011: 20% 2012: 53% 2013: 72% 2014: 75% 2015: 81% Subscribe for Intranet Tips It’s been proven at this point that not only does CSR promote well-being to those served by it, but it has a growing

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By | 2018-06-20T13:54:51+00:00 June 20, 2018|Employee Engagement, Intranet Applications|
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Improving Employee Engagement With Our Intranet

Summary:  Four daily principles for improving employee engagement while creating a connected, motivated, high-performing team. Our people are our most critical component to success. This is true for virtually all businesses, and it’s certainly true at Intranet Connections. Subscribe for Intranet Tips And while I’m proud of our intranet technology, I’m more proud of the people I work with day in and day out. If you’ve talked to our support team, you may have met Karl, who lives by the sign he put above his desk that says “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work”. If you’ve visited our blog, you’ve

https://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/improving-employee-engagement/
By | 2018-04-05T09:34:53+00:00 March 29, 2018|Employee Engagement|
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Five Ways To Motivate Employees

Summary:  Make use of your internal tools at hand to motivate employees to create an ultimately more efficient, energized workplace. It isn’t always easy to know whether your employees and coworkers feel highly motivated at work or not. They may seem happy and excited to come to work, but in reality, there may be some hindrances that aren’t allowing them to reach their full potential. What we do know is that employee motivation matters – Highly engaged businesses see a 20% increase in sales and a 10% increase in customer ratings compared to businesses with low engagement levels (officevibe).

https://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/5-ways-to-motivate-employees/
By | 2018-03-29T12:25:44+00:00 March 27, 2018|Employee Engagement|
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How To Improve Company Culture At Your Organization

Summary: Leverage your internal communication tools to drive home what your company stands for. "Describe your company culture" is a common question asked by my peers after starting out with a new organization. Luckily, I was able to answer this almost immediately at Intranet Connections, largely in part to our internal communication hub; the intranet. As employees rate their company’s qualities 20% higher at companies with strong cultures, it’s important to foster and develop these key cultural values right away. Why not use a digital interface to help boost culture adoption? With

https://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/company-culture/
By | 2018-08-21T11:32:20+00:00 March 16, 2018|Employee Engagement|
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Top Workplace Engagement Ideas: Learning Luncheons

Summary:  Here at Intranet Connections, we are always trying out different workplace engagement ideas, and recently renewed our commitment to a weekly “Lunch and Learn” program. The concept is simple, each Friday, one or more employees commits to presenting a learning topic to all staff to hopefully spark conversation and/or provide insight to staff who may not be aware of the topic being delivered. Topics need not be work-related, though a majority have some applicability to work in terms of a technology or technique we can adopt to increase workplace efficiency, promote a

https://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/learning-luncheons/
By | 2018-03-19T14:46:31+00:00 March 7, 2018|Employee Engagement|
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How to Motivate The Largest Generation in the Workplace: Millennials

Summary:  Lazy and entitled? Or tech savvy and progressive? How to leverage employee engagement software to create workplaces that motivate millennials. As of 2015, millennials have officially taken over as the largest chunk of the workforce. Unless you recently stepped out of a smokey DeLorean straight from 1985, you'll have noticed this shift brought considerable changes in the workplace. So, with baby boomers on their way out, gen Xers on their way up, gen z coming in hot, and millennials taking the biggest piece of the pie, how do employers evolve their work to

https://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/employee-engagement-software/
By | 2018-07-31T15:48:57+00:00 February 23, 2018|Collaboration, Communication In The Workplace, Employee Engagement, Leadership & Strategy|
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2017 Highlights and Employee Engagement at Intranet Connections

Summary:  In this blog post, we thought we'd share with you some of the best employee engagement moments and success stories from this past year. At Intranet Connections, our 5 core values are ingrained in our corporate culture, 'SPICE': Simplicity, positivity, integrity, creativity and empathy. These are also areas that we celebrate 'wins', not just in financial success, but in individual employees, and customers. Below are a few of Intranet Connection's biggest wins from 2017: Broke records including biggest sales quarter, month, and day. Hired twelve new team members across all departments, and welcomed one back from maternity leave.

https://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/2017-highlights-and-employee-engagement-at-intranet-connections/
By | 2018-01-10T15:25:42+00:00 January 9, 2018|Collaboration, Employee Engagement|
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Your Intranet as a Project Collaboration Tool

Summary:  Leverage your intranet as a collaboration tool to help employees connect and share on projects sites. An intranet is an invaluable collaboration tool for multi-departmental projects.  Many people believe that an intranet as something that only lives and breathes in the mysterious realm of the IT team.  With an Intranet from Intranet Connections, you have many tools built-in that will help you collaborate on any project; no 20-sided dice rolling or magic hat required.  Here’s how you can make the most of them. Collaboration Tools Communication Internal communication tools help employees connect and share; the first step to effective

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By | 2017-11-30T13:10:29+00:00 November 30, 2017|Collaboration, Communication In The Workplace, Employee Engagement|
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