Career advice, trends in IC, leveling up

Insider Comms for internal comms

🇺🇸 Programming note: Next week is a holiday week in the U.S.A. (Independence Day), so there will be no Mister Editorial.

💸 Did you know that the average salary for an IC pro is $87,637? I know that because last year I took — and then downloaded the results of — Staffbase’s internal comms salary survey. How do you stack up in the industry?

• Take Staffbase’s internal comms annual salary survey.

• You’ll gain access to a piece of gold that will help you in your next salary negotiation (or provide evidence for a raise).

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Webinar: Hot Comms Summer

Recently Helen Deverell and I participated in a webinar co-sponsored by Staffbase and Ragan. We discussed:

• The current temperature of internal comms midway through 2022

• How IC professionals can support mental health in the workplace

• The hottest trends in internal comms this summer

• The ways you can set yourself up to have a successful rest of the year

Here’s a teaser: When asked how IC pros can set themselves up for success in 2022…

• Helen (rightly!) said strategy and data can help you say No.

• I said you should get another job.

📺 Click to watch.

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Level Up

🎤 10 Ways to Make the Most of Your Town Hall and Unleash the Power of your Hybrid Teams (The Grossman Group)

📈 ROI for Internal Comms: A Quick Reference Guide (Staffbase)

📺 Infographic: Multichannel Made Easy (Interact) [Recommended for internal comms newbies]

😔 How to Communicate the Death of an Employee (Rachel Miller)

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So How Do You Really Feel?

🥃 SHOT: “Stressed,” “anxious,” “frustrated,” and “concerned,” are just some of the ways communication professionals collectively described how they’re feeling through the global So How Do You Really Feel? survey.

Keep going 👇.

So How Do You Really Feel?

🍺 CHASER: From Gallup: “Employees are disengaged, burnt out and as stressed as they've ever been. But there's something leaders can do about it. In fact, there's something leaders must do about it.”

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An Experiment

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1/21 Why Superficial Statistics Are Important But Not Enough A word on volumetrics. An #internalcomms / #insidercomms thread 🧵

4:37 PM · Jun 28, 2022

Every other Tuesday I will share employee comms best practices and insights in a Twitter thread, like the one above.

• It’s an experiment! Let me know what you think by commenting on the tweet thread.

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Hiring

Guild Education - Internal Comms Director (U.S.A.; location unclear)

Kayak - Senior Director of Internal Comms (remote, U.S.A.)

Okta - Senior Manager, Employee Comms (remote, U.S.A.)

Panera - VP, Internal Comms (Newton, MA)

Related - Employee Comms Manager (NYC)

ServiceNow - Manager, Employee Communications & Engagement, Corporate Functions (remote, U.S.A.)

Shutterfly - Director, Internal Comms (California or Minnesota)

Udemy - Director, Employee Comms (San Francisco area, ideally)

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Quotable

“If I was to step back and look at all of the things I’m doing, I’d probably have a panic attack. I know there’s too many things. I know I’m doing a lot. I just have to keep pivoting every couple of hours.”

Sound like you and your work?

• It’s actually actor, director, busy-man Taika Waititi. His secret to managing the workload? Not thinking about it.

😎 See you in two weeks!

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