New releases.
Voice AI
A two-minute audio clip is all you need to clone a voice; before you know it, you are listening to yourself reciting poetry in French or asking where to find a reliable cat café in Japanese. Voice AI has the potential to give so many more of us the ability to be heard in a uniquely Human mode; voice is intimate and emotive, which is also why it is so powerful.
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AI-Powered Visual Communication
/imagine… an AI application that generates stunning, original art with the same ease as ChatGPT does for copy. Today’s content creators need visuals as much as they need words to improve just about every form of messaging. A brief guide to Midjourney; what it is, how to get started, and how to prompt like a pro.
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Making GPT Work for You
Leaders today need to be highly visible. Physically, with teams and stakeholders but more and more, also digitally, producing meaningful posts and thought leadership content for internal and external audiences. When words are needed, ChatGPT can help. When refined for accuracy, voice and coherence, it’s a tool that can help raise your profile and get your message out. AI is intimidating. Here are a few facts you need to know. Five easy ways to use it and five best practices to make AI your b*tch.
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Radical Listening
“Radical Listening” means taking every opportunity to ask your workplace community what they want across a variety of channels and delivering results within 48 hours. In some cases done with the small, technically meaningless “Listen and Deliver” tight loops, and in some cases long and in-depth, “Deep Listen” cultural dives. And don’t forget Bean Voting.
All these listening channels have very different goals, deliver different data but together form a more accurate picture of the current state of engagement and helps build trust in the process of data collection. The point is to maximally listen and quickly deliver for your community to build trust for when it counts: the engagement surveys.
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The Workation
What’s a “Workation” and what does it mean for our engagement, and the future of work? A “Workation” is the act of leaving one’s city or country for an extended period, and working fully remotely using video conferencing and visual collaboration tools. Turns out it’s a very big thing.
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Joy and Laughter in the Workplace
Laughter reduces stress, eases tension and connects people. Doctors know that laughter helps with pain relief, tension and overall immunity. Joy and laughter in the workplace increase productivity and lowers attrition; teams are more engaged and creative. Five ways to find the funny while still doing serious business.
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The dangers of “Burn-In”
An invisible, little-known phenomenon that affects high-functioning teams and is just as dangerous as burnout. Is your power team operating in an unsustainable state of perpetual over-delivery? How do you know if you or your team is in danger? Ways to dial it down.
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Quiet Quitting, Quiet Firing
“Quiet Quitting” describes an employee who “switches off” psychologically; logging in, doing the bare minimum to avoid being fired or becoming burned out, and at the end of the day, logs off. “Quiet Firing” is the other side of that coin. How to spot it and turn the tide.
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Understanding Flow
“Flow” contributes to increased job satisfaction and improvise our mental, physical and emotional well-being which naturally translates to higher levels of engagement and lower churn rates. The average workday, chock with meetings, incoming fire of communication, expectations and deliverables, needs to be carefully choreographed to create that all-important, critical ingredient for achieving “flow”: silence.
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Conscious Workload Reduction
During Covid, we all grew used to the erosion of work-life boundaries and the 5% productivity increase. We do more, take on more, work more hours, deliver more. We “engage” by suggesting mindfulness courses or yoga, which we join to be a team player. But the key to post-Covid engagement is conscious workload reduction: creating space for quality results, more creativity and joy that only time can allow. A few simple ways to lessen the load.
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How it all began.
The Handbook for Post-Covid Communication is the result of a 3-year University of Amsterdam Master’s study testing the effectiveness of animation in workplace communication, as told as an animated story (naturally). The 65-page study published during the height of the Second Wave. Corporate communication which builds in these ideas is creating a competitive business advantage over those who do not, plain and simple.
