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ICON 2023 Q&A: Delta’s Gina Laughlin on an ‘Employees First’ Approach to Internal Comms

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Laughlin, a former PRSSA president, is vice president of global employee communications for Delta Air Lines. During ICON, she talked with PRsay about Delta’s employee-first approach to internal communications and the challenges of reaching deskless employees. She also delivered PRSSA’s keynote address.

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PR Lessons From The Biggest Failures of 2023

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By Monday, most of OpenAI’s rank-and-file employees were threatening to follow them. Target found itself in a somewhat similar situation when anti-LGBTQ customers criticized its Pride Month displays, in some cases trashing store merchandise and harassing employees. It was a lose-lose. That was great – until it wasn’t.

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How The Right PR Makes Better Business Deals

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Some executives are reluctant to share their end game, due to the unpredictability of market conditions or because they don’t want employees to be unsettled. We wrapped the campaign in a thought leadership banner carried by the CEO, in contrast to competitive banking institutions. Good internal communications helps manage change.

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How corporate IT is actually killing employee communications

Communications Conversations

For those of you born after 1985, Lotus Notes is an operating system that runs all sorts of programs internally for big organizations, including email. But here’s the thing: When your employees go home at night, what programs and platforms are they using? And it’s systems like Lotus Notes that are killing employees.

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Power of Possible Podcast: U.S. Bank takes interesting approach with new podcast

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Bank, which launched its “Power of Possible” Podcast earlier this year. Our brand voice is to be relatable and earnest for a large bank. Bank focused podcast wouldn’t work. Any sense for internal expectations? What has been the reaction amongst employees so far? Our employees love the podcast.

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For Sensitive Subject of Job Losses, CEOs Need Sound PR Counsel

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I arrived in Dallas in the mid-1980s, just as the city’s three biggest industries — real estate, banking, and oil and gas — were entering historic downturns. And when told they’ll lose their jobs, employees are just as shocked today. Garg came to represent accusations that corporations treat employees as expendable units.

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Rethinking how to introduce a new CEO to employees

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US Bank has a new CEO. And, it got me thinking: Introducing a new CEO to the rank-and-file employees is a big job. APPrise Mobile recently conducted a study that found “nearly a quarter (23 percent) of Americans who work at companies with more than 500 employees are unsure of the name of their CEO.” Think about it.