Culture, Comms, and Cocktails with host Chuck Gose from SocialChorus chatting with Alex Rose from Magellan

This is a must-listen for communicators struggling with their brand or curious about how to further strengthen your brand inside their employers. Greg Monaco brings agency experience to the world of internal communications. He is the brand coach at Monaco Creative and Branding. Listen to his advice on how to refine and enhance your personal brand.

Shaw Industries has been a customer of SocialChorus for several years. But that doesn't mean they are done. Listen to Curtis Callaway, communications director, talk about all of the work they've put in to increase adoption amongst their most critical employee groups. And the effort paid off with the importance of communicating during the pandemic.

Every company has had challenges during the pandemic, but they are rarely the same. With UNFI, they’ve never been busier but still need to keep employees safe. Hear Mike Wilken, director of external communication & PR, share how they managed communication during multiple crises - including being in the city coping with George Floyd 's murder. Mike shares tactics they used to keep employees informed and get the engaged - including the sometimes difficult-to-reach non-wired employees.

Are you giving employees what they want? Are you asking them what they need. For Brittany Barhite, communications leader at Owens Corning, and the comms team there learned that their internal comms platform, which was originally intended for news and information, was being used to create a sense of community by Owens Corning employees. Hear Brittany share some of their big wins in 2020 (we should focus on the good things) and her advice on how to connect with non-wired employees and their leaders.

Launching a brand new internal comms platform is a lot of work, but work worth doing. But imagine launching one during a pandemic. . . in healthcare. That's what Lori Stewart and the communications team at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center faced this past Spring with the launch of HealthBeat Hub.

Rita Zonius is the director of The Enterprise Social Engineer and former head of internal digital communications for ANZ. Based in Melbourne, Australia, she joined the podcast to talk about the five steps leaders can take as we reset and think about performance differently during the current health crisis and (just as important) after it subsides. We also talked about the impact the pandemic will have on cultures and the employee experience.

For the past few months, I've been doing a live show with Rachel Miller from All Things IC called "Spin The Wheel." And we've been spinning the wheel on internal comms every week.

Episode 7 was focused on building an investment in internal comms. I thought podcast listeners would enjoy the conversation. If you'd like to watch this episode or any of the past ones, go to http://youtube.com/socialchorus.

I first met Kristin Graham at Amazon's first-ever summit of their own internal communicators. I sat in on her session last February and knew I wanted to get her on the podcast. Then the pandemic hit but we did finally get it recorded.

This is a different episode because we though it would be fun to go live for the interview. You can find the original video broadcast on LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube.

So much can change in six months. When Chris Berger first appeared on the podcast, coronavirus wasn't even a whisper. Listen to this episode and hear Chris talk about how COVID-19 presented the greatest comms challenge of his career. And how they handled corporate messaging when news and advice was changing all the time across state lines.

And Chris talks about his coffee venture - Sugar Creek Coffee (https://www.sugarcreekcoffee.com/) - and how it helps him focus on his day-to-day job because he's focused on roasting coffee, too.

Culture, Comms & Cocktails is internal comms served straight up.