Open Communication

Toasting to our new office 🎉🥂- its smack in the centre of Copenhagen and we love it! 😎 A new era begins 💎💪🏻💙

How to take a proactive approach and plan a return to the workplace in a new, unknown, normal?

One country at a time, we will at our turn start planning the return to workplaces that will have changed. We have the opportunity to take control of the situation and organize a responsible re-opening. A successfully planned and executed return will ensure the safety of employees, but also engagement and motivation.

The questions remains: How?

To help you in this task, Open has invited two experienced industry leaders, Sizwekazi Jekwa Mdingi, Head of Communications, Absa Corporate and Investment Banking at Absa South Africa and Beenu Thomas, Director of Internal Communications at Carlsberg, to discuss what concrete actions they are taking to prepare for a responsible return.

Open's Anna Porko interviews Beenu and Sizwekazi, in a discussion on the factors contributing to what is needed of communications in the transition, and what we can -and should- do to address those needs.

You can expect concrete tips to help you take control of the return, on three different levels:
– Leadership communication
– Equipping managers
– On the floor

Sign up to listening in and to receive the recording through this link: https://lnkd.in/dR4mhj5

In case you missed our Webinar this morning on engaging your virtual audiences with storytelling techniques - then see below for five key takeaways that you can start applying right away.

1. Include variation or surprise elements
2. Use simple every-day examples that are easy to relate to
3. Be authentic and allow for your character to show
4. Provide context
5. Guide your audience to where you need them

We have a recording available, and our presentation too if you want to see what we did. Just write to us in the comment field below, or send us a message, and we'll get it to you.

Webinar was delivered with Spendlove and Lamb

Next week we offer you two opportunities to learn how to engage your entire workforce 👩‍🔧👩‍🏭👨‍💻👷‍♂️

These webinars will provide you with concrete tips and tricks that you can start applying immediately 👍

🗓️ Tuesday 31st – with specific focus on those who are not based in an office. Organised by Staffbase
Read more and register here: http://ow.ly/d4E250yXxhH

🗓️ Wednesday 1st April – for tips and tricks to make you virtual audience care about your content. With a special guest from Spendlove and Lamb
Read more and register here: http://ow.ly/5CXW50yXxhI

Both webinars are complimentary to attend and by registering, you will also receive a recording.

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Attention all communicators out there, with non-desk employees to reach. 🎧

Next week, our Andreas will join Frank Wolf from Staffbase in a topical webinar on engaging and reaching your entire workforce during a crisis.

The webinar will leave you with concrete actions in your toolbox that you can start implementing right away.

You can read more and register here: https://hubs.ly/H0nrTyT0

🗓️ March 31st
🕓 3pm BST / 4pm CEST

Today marks a full week of working from home for many people in Denmark and the world – including us at Open. We have learnt a lot working from 35 offices instead of two and would love to share how we are making this work. You know, it’s mostly about communicating, and if we may say so ourselves: we know a thing or two about that.

Here are our tips:

1. Don’t forget you’re a team! This is about culture and belonging. We start every morning with a 15-minute, all-Open meeting – virtually of course.

2. Remember that personal, social relationships matter too. We have gotten to know each other in a new way during this time, and it helps our relationships. One concrete thing we do is tour-de-chambers, where we take turns to show our colleagues our homes and how we have arranged work. Total favourite. Also, virtual shared lunches and coffee-breaks go a long way in keeping our extra-extroverts from going cuckoo.

3. Exceptional times require exceptional approaches. We are home-schooling our 49 kids and working at the same time, like superhumans! Or how was it again? Patience and understanding go a long way. Plus: routines. They keep us sane.

How have you arranged work? And, have you squeezed exercise into your routines? That could be the next thing for us!