No More Long Talk

Welcome back to your weekly dose of No More Long Talk, where today's podcast is with the fabulous Abby Guthkelch from Workplace from Facebook. In this episode we chat all about employee experience (not to be confused by employee engagement)! 

This episode is for anyone who works in comms or anyone who wants to focus on employee experience and how to make their processes better in their own organisation. This episode is also for anyone who works in diversity and inclusion, employee wellbeing, employee engagement, internal comms, HR, senior leaders or CEOs.

You will leave this episode with:

• A clear understanding in how employee experience differs from employee engagement 
• How you can influence employee experience in your organisation 
• How to drive a good campaign at work

Abby's bio:

As Global Comms Solutions Lead, Abby Guthkelch is the Comms industry expert for the Workplace from Facebook team globally. Her focus is on advising our high value customers on Comms best practice, trends and thought leadership, as well as working closely with our engineering and product management teams specifically with our Comms customers in mind. She also leads Workplace’s Connected Executive program providing  leadership engagement coaching to C-suite Leaders and senior Comms teams who counsel them.

Prior to Workplace, Abby held a number of senior level Comms & Marketing roles both in-house and agency side - most recently as the Global Head of Social Media  Engagement at HSBC, and Omnicom agency’s Ketchum’s UK Head of Digital. Abby has over 17 years' experience as a multi-industry, multi-channel content strategist and was ranked amongst the Top 25 marketing innovators in EMEA in 2017.

Outside of work, Abby is an avid traveller and photographer; and visited her 46th country in Feb 2020 (before COVID-19 rather ruined her plans for countries  47 and 48..).

This is the final episode for series 1 of No More Long talk, but don't worry as I'll be back in 2021 with more guests and more chat in how create better workplaces and employee experiences. 

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Welcome back to your weekly dose of No More Long Talk, where today's podcast comes with a twist as I share my own reflections of the past 6 months through the lens of internal comms, D&I and employee wellbeing. This is a really interesting episode to listen to (if I must say so myself)! 

I feel that it's important to reflect over the time of successes and challenges that we've all experienced since 2020 has started. 

Listen in as I share my thoughts and some key tips for each area so you can also reflect on your role and the impact you have. Listen to the end as I answer a couple of questions from the LinkedIn audience.

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Welcome back to your weekly dose of No More Long Talk, where today's podcast comes with a twist as I share a webinar that I organised and hosted as part of this series to talk all about how about how diversity and comms teams can work better together in order to advance the diversity agenda to create more inclusive workplaces with belonging.

I chatted with my fabulous panel speakers Russell Norton from scarlettabbott, Catherine Grinyer from Big Voice Communications, April Williams - a D&I Champion and HR and recruitment specialist and Toby Mildon - a Diversity & Inclusion Architect and founder of Mildon, a consultancy and advisory business.

This episode is for anyone who works in comms - internal, external, marketing or PR. It’s for anyone who works in diversity and inclusion, HR, senior leaders or CEOs who have a diversity remit in their job. 

You may not work in any of these roles but just have an interest in this subject - it's also for you. There’s a Q&A at the end, so an opportunity to hear even more thoughts on this subject.

You will leave this episode with:

• A clearer understanding in what you can do to advance your D&I vision

• What work you might need to do on yourself - self awareness is key!

• What you need to do to create inclusive communications and

• How to encourage people to share their authenticity at work
  

A heads up for next week’s episode. If you follow me on LinkedIn and Instagram, you’ll already know that I’m a huge advocate of self care and wellness in the work. So I’m going to take up on my own advice and take a wellness break for the weekend which means I won’t be bringing you an episode of No More Long Talk next week.

Welcome back to No More Long Talk, where today I chat with HR & Recruitment Specialist April Williams.

April has worked within the tech industry for over 8 years working with brands like Vision Direct, Tech Nation and Talentful. With a passion to champion the narrative on Diversity and Inclusion, April has educated Business Leaders over the years on the importance of creating an inclusive environment and has consulted on People strategies that are inclusive for all.

She's also the Founding Partner of the Youth Development platform - My Runway Group where their mission is to provide a stage for young creatives in the BAME community to network and showcase their creativity.

In today’s bumper episode I chat with April all about diversity and inclusion as we share some of our own personal challenges with diversity.

April talks D&I and recruitment practices and how to improve on attraction, retention and promotion. She talks about how D&I needs to be weaved into recruitment processes and HR and provides some real valuable tips on how you can achieve diverse recruitment.

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Welcome back to your weekly dose of No More Long Talk, where today I chat with Global Digital Specialist for UNICEF, Sam Waterton.

In today’s episode I chat with Sam about what internal comms can learn from digital social media campaigns and vice versa; what the future looks like for companies giving back via corporate social responsibility; advice in moving abroad for your dream comms job and how to make it happen and what he’s doing to help change the world of work.

Sam manages UNICEF's global social media channels where his aim is to use creative campaigns and UNICEF's global network of 80 million social media supporters to improve the lives of children. He has a decade of non-profit, government and public sector experience in press relations, web and social media. This includes five years of international development experience.

He is also UNICEF's social media lead for emergencies and risk communication, including COVID-19 advocacy, fundraising and public health messaging. He’s currently working towards a masters in Communications for Development.

Take a listen as Sam shares his story of how he used his comms and international development experience to move to New York to help improve the lives of millions of disadvantaged children and adolescents worldwide.

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