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Organizational Communication: 5 Tips To Improve Communications In Your Business
Whether you have a handful of employees or several hundred, managing organizational communication is a business-critical function. After all, organizational communication is what binds a business together. From employee engagement, idea-sharing and team collaboration...
Team Collaboration Ideas: 15 Ways To Encourage Collaboration & Teamwork In SMEs
Legendary basketballer Michael Jordan famously once said: Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. Team collaboration ideas are just as important to success in the world of business as they are in sport. According to one survey,...
Intranet Names: The Essential Guide To Naming Your Intranet (Including Examples)
Every new parent knows that choosing a name is an important task. There’s plenty of evidence that tells us names can affect a child’s performance at school and even their long-term career prospects. It’s no surprise then that the same applies to your intranet. In...
Inter-Office Communication Tools: What Are The Options Available?
Every business leader knows that good communication, both internal and external, is essential to success. However, while companies often spend big budgets on customer-facing communications, inter-office communication tools are still dominated by a 30-year-old...
8 Internal Communications Trends You Need To Know About In 2020
Internal Communications has become one of the most important foundation strategies for every top-performing small business. So, in 2020, what’s happening in the world of internal communications trends - and what do you need to know when reviewing your communications...
4 Easy Ways To Motivate Disengaged Employees
Did you know that disengaged employees could be costing your company thousands of dollars every year? Finding ways to motivate disengaged employees is a priority for modern companies, especially research tells us that disengaged employees are costing US companies a...
Ethics In The Workplace: All You Need To Know
Workplace ethics is a complex – but increasingly important - subject. Society is more conscious and informed about the ethical practices of businesses. Consumers prefer to buy from companies with ethical standards and reputations – whether it’s green credentials,...
Improve Communications In The Workplace: 10 Tips For Organizations And Managers
Communications is a perennial thorn in the side of many organizations. It doesn’t seem to matter how hard you try, the report card still says there’s room for improvement. And yet we all know if we can improve internal communications in the workplace, productivity,...
Idea Sharing: How To Share Ideas In The Workplace
Everyone knows that two heads are better than one. Most businesses already encourage the sharing of ideas at work. It could be brainstorming sessions, team-building events, quiet rooms dedicated to interaction and collaboration. Or even strategically placed sofas...
HR Technology: Increase Productivity With An Intranet
HR is at the heart of most organizations. Whether it’s recruitment, staff retention, performance appraisal, employee metrics or overseeing payroll, professional development and employee wellness programs, there’s certainly plenty going on in HR. That's why...
Internal Website: Uses, Features And Setup
Many companies spend big dollars on their customer-facing websites, attaching great importance to innovative, trend-setting designs with all the bells and whistles. Often it’s a different story when it comes to internal websites. If there is one at all, it’s usually...
Cultural Audits: How To Assess Your Workplace Culture
Do you know what your corporate culture looks and feels like to employees and customers? Do you know whether your workplace culture is helping you to achieve business goals or is it standing in the way? The truth is most of us don’t know the answers to these...
Employee Profiles: How To Improve Your Employer Brand
Having a strong employer brand can make a big difference when it comes to attracting and retaining the best talent in the marketplace. Companies with strong employer brands have no trouble when it comes to recruitment or indeed, customer retention – think Apple,...
Employee Profiles: How To Improve Your Employer Brand
Having a strong employer brand can make a big difference when it comes to attracting and retaining the best talent in the marketplace. Companies with strong employer brands have no trouble when it comes to recruitment or indeed, customer retention – think Apple,...
Virtual Town Hall: Improve Local Governance With An Intranet
Local governments are big business in the US. According to the latest statistics the sector employed 10.6 million full-time employees or 76.2 percent of all workers. And in 2018, state and local government annual spending was an incredible $3.25 trillion. These kinds...
5 Great Ways An Intranet Solution Can Help Your Business
Let’s face it, nowadays there’s an app for pretty much every business function you can think of. Whether it’s cloud computing, collaboration, communication and messaging apps, customer relationship management software or project management tools, there’s a SaaS...
How To Set Up An Intranet Site
Are you persuaded by the case for an office intranet but frustrated by the lack of support from your IT department? Are you bamboozled by talk of LANs and WANs when you Google ‘create an intranet’? Is an intranet something you’ve been considering for a while, but it...
Intranet Providers: 30 Top Reasons Why You Should Choose MyHub
Selecting the right intranet provider for your business is an important decision. But with so many providers out there, how do you select the right one? For a number of years now, here at MyHub, we have been providing intranet solutions to businesses just like yours...
50 Inspirational Employee Engagement Quotations
Nowadays it seems as though every time we log on to any form of social media from Facebook to Twitter or LinkedIn, we’re presented with a motivational quote or some words of wisdom together with a beautiful image or photo. But are these quotes inspiring or annoying?...
What Is Employee Engagement?
Employee engagement means different things to different people. It’s an elusive concept which is why some organizations have struggled to embrace it whole-heartedly. Unlike other business terms like ‘accounts payable’, ‘outsourcing’ or ‘telecommuter’, there is no...
Startup Strategy: 5 Top Strategies To Help You Survive The First Year
Maybe you’re a fledgling startup that’s just launched on the market. Perhaps you’re an entrepreneur with a fantastic business idea who is ready to take the next step. Whatever the case may be, congratulations! Starting your own business is an exciting and rewarding...
Employee Intranet: 40 Hot Reasons Why Every Business Needs One
Do you want to improve efficiency, productivity and performance in your business? Of course you do! Every company wants to streamline processes, improve communications and maximize profits, but what’s the best and most cost-effective way to set about it? There are...
Collaborative Communication: Why It Matters
Tackling complex problems, fostering creativity and nurturing collaborative solutions is universal in business today. The terms cooperation, coordination, and collaboration are often used interchangeably. However, collaboration refers to a higher level of joint...
HR’s Role In Employee Engagement: The Essential Guide!
Employee engagement adds value to any organization. It can make a difference to the individual employee as well as the business as a whole. Get it right and the rewards on offer are significant: increased productivity, improved customer service, reduced staff turnover...
Product Update August 2019
We've been working on some major projects including the recently completed upgrade of the core MyHub platform, this included the software and server infrastructure. Key benefits of this upgrade include faster site speed and the ability to develop new features more...
Online Business Dashboards: Visualize Company Data On The Intranet
Data management, investigation and analysis are core business activities. Most companies keep a wide range of information including: sales data, customer relationship management information and statistics on orders as well as reports on staff absences and sick leave,...
The Easiest Intranet Solutions: What Are You Really Looking For?
If you are looking for a new intranet solution for your business, the chances are that it hasn’t taken you long to figure out how overwhelming all the options currently on the market can be. No doubt there’s an organizational pain point or a burning business need that...
What Is Employee Engagement? The Ultimate Definition!
What does employee engagement mean to you? Is it just another fad? Maybe you think of it as a nice-to-have initiative if you have the time and resources? Or is employee engagement, as it should be, an integral part of your business operations, leadership and...
How To Develop A Strong Personal Brand, The Easy Way!
Are you looking to take the next step in your career? Or maybe you want to raise your professional profile? Perhaps you want to position yourself as an influencer or authority in your chosen industry? Whatever the case may be, developing a strong personal brand will...
Intranet Post-Launch Traps And Other Considerations
After weeks of planning and development, your company intranet has successfully been launched. You’re pretty pleased with yourself as the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Colleagues and peers have been enthusiastic in their praise and you even got a pat on...