“When you think about internal communications, It's so much about change management. It's about bringing people along on the journey that the CEO or the executive team have created in multiple meetings. They already know it, but now they have to turn around and communicate it. And so they have to make that their own. They have to believe it. And we as humans can really smell when somebody doesn't believe what they're saying. And so you have to just own it and practice it and know it inside and out and bring your own stories and examples to it. It can't just be talking points off of a sheet because the rest of us know when it really isn't yours.” — Laura Klieves

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Episode Timestamps:

*(1:50) - How Laura got interested in communications

*(3:05) - Laura’s first job in communications

*(5:08) - Laura’s current role as Senior Director, L&D and Communications at Malwarebytes

*(7:42) - Segment: Storytime

*(14:00) - Segment: Getting Tactical

*(17:20) - Overcoming learning curves when joining a company

*(20:30) - Must-do tactics for ICs in order to be effective and engaging in a digital workforce

*(25:00) - The critical components of storytelling 

*(29:40) - Ensuring virtual employees have an amazing experience

*(33:25) - Segment: Seat at the Table

*(37:50) - Segment: Asking for a Friend

Links

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn

Follow Laura on Twitter

Amanda’s LinkedIn 

www.simpplr.com/podcast

“What we forget is all of these physical and digital experiences are what you call the culture. Culture is not something that you separately write down and then everybody's like, ‘oh, this is culture.’ It is this amalgamation of all of these beautiful experiences that you have." — Rajamma Krishnamurthy

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Episode Timestamps:

*(1:50) - How Rajamma got into human resources

*(3:20) - Rajamma’s current role as senior director of HR technology at Microsoft

*(4:55) - Focusing on the individual user experience at such a large scale

*(7:55) - Storytime

*(13:50) - Getting Tactical

*(20:40) - How Rajamma stays ahead of the trends of HR technology

*(22:50) - One tech change Rajamma would implement immediately if she could

*(24:35) - What’s not getting enough attention in employee experience

*(26:22) - Ripped From the Headlines

*(29:00) - Asking for a Friend

*(32:02) - Advice Rajamma gives for women who want to break into tech

*(35:15) - The next big shift Rajamma sees coming out of the hybrid working experience

Links

Rajamma’s LinkedIn

Amanda’s LinkedIn 

www.simpplr.com/podcast

“Being young and not knowing how things are supposed to go created in me this real comfort with ambiguity and the acknowledgement that there's a ton of opportunity in ambiguity. So if you can embrace that and lean into it and accept that there's no right way to do anything. Everybody's just trying to chart their own path together. And as long as you're aligned on the goals and you're organized and you're going to stay focused on the objectives that the company is trying to achieve, you can learn a lot and get a lot of responsibility really early in your career.” — Katie Miserany

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Episode Timestamps:

*(2:00) - How Katie got interested in internal communications

*(4:15) - Story Time Segment

*(5:08) - The SurveyMonkey to Momentive rebrand 

*(7:55) - Working with Sheryl Sandberg & the Dave Goldberg Family Foundation

*(14:15) - Getting Tactical Segment

*(17:15) - Preparing employees for a successful rebrand

*(21:41) - How the rebrand name came to be Momentive

*(28:25) - Top 3 rebrand must-do’s for internal comms professionals 

*(38:20) - Asking for a Friend Segment  

*(41:10) - Overcoming barriers as a woman 

*(44:00) - The biggest challenge internal communications professionals will face in the future

Links

Katie’s LinkedIn

Katie’s Twitter

Sheryl Sandberg’s books

www.momentive.ai

Amanda’s LinkedIn 

www.simpplr.com/podcast

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