Norwegian Title: Måling som nyttårsforsett
Publications
Angela Sinickas is a widely-published author. She has written a university textbook, book chapters, white papers, and regular columns for Melcrum's Strategic Communication Management, Best Practice Measurement, and Total Communications Measurement, as well as IABC's Communication World and many others.
Yes, We’ve Heard About the Cascade. But Is It Always the Best Tactic?
Most communicators agree on the importance of face-to-face communication. But many disagree on whether the team-briefing cascade where information is trickled from senior management to the lowest-level employee is the most effective way to impart knowledge.
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Help CEOs See Communication as a Business Process
How can you educate a senior executive who has not yet “seen the light” to value the communication functionand youmore highly?
How to Use Communication Measures
Just like the managers of other business functions, communicators need to measure how effective our work is. However, the metrics need to be ones that we can act oneither to keep doing what we’re doing or to know what and how to change.
Six Key Metrics for Managing Global/Local Communication
When global communicators review their department’s performance with executives, they’re often asked, “Can you break it down to six key indicators?” So here are suggestions for those six key metrics, but also quite a few more measurements that need to be tracked in order to know what to do to achieve better numbers the next time.
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Debate: Isn’t it time we stopped worrying about measuring ROI on internal communication?
Measurement experts Angela Sinickas and Kevin Ruck recently engaged in a LinkedIn debate about the value of measuring the return on investment of internal comms interventions.
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Internal communication departments do make a big difference
Good employee communication doesn’t happen by itself. Survey results over the last 10 years prove the large impact on results that professional communicators can have.
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Who needs surveys when you can scan social media?
Seeing what people are saying about your organization on social media provides a window into your audience’s perceptions. However, those perceptions might be skewed just as much as if the window you’re looking through is clouded or cracked.