The role of internal communications in delivering on the collaboration agenda.
A presentation by Belinda Gannaway from NixonMcInnes for PR Week's Strategic Internal Communications Conference, December 2013
3. By NASA. Photo taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans (of the Apollo 17 crew), via Wikimedia Commons
4. “Cross-unit collaboration takes place when
people from different units work together in
cross-unit teams on a common task or
provide significant help to each other.
“It can be joint work or a one-way
collaboration where one unit provides
information to another.
“In all cases collaboration needs to
involve people. Swapping data is not
collaboration.”
12. What the research says
• Shapes organisation more than any other activity
• Drives performance more than any other activity
• Impact is twice as significant as a company’s
aggressiveness in pursuing new market opportunities
• Five times as significant as the external market
environment (market turbulence)
Source: Frost & Sullivan
21. A hostile culture will kill
collaboration in its tracks
• Silos
• Excessive competition
• Opaque decision-making
• Hoarding information
Internal communicators‟ role 3: culture change
25. • Collaboration has meaning
• The tech serves the strategy
You can measure behavioural
change
26. “In the long history of humankind (and
animal kind, too) those who have learned
to collaborate and improvise most
effectively have prevailed”
Not Charles Darwin
Internal communication is uniquely qualified to lead efforts to promote, manage, and sustain enterprise-wide collaboration. “If HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times more productive”Lew Platt, former Hewlett Packard CEOhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2013/07/30/the-12-habits-of-highly-collaborative-organizations/2/