The Comms Brief

Summary
A communication professional has drafted a survey invitation that says "Your answers are confidential". A colleague asks why the link is personal, who sees the answers and what they are used for. This episode asks what to get confirmed, and by whom, before you explain who sees employee data and what it is used for, and which parts of an...

Summary
A manager has a briefing that explains a change, but cannot tell which questions are settled, which are open and which nobody can answer yet. This episode follows a fictional shift-handover change and asks what a communication professional should sort out with the decision owner before managers explain the decision, and how the answer travels back to people afterwards.

The scenario...

A background episode, not a new announcement. Directive (EU) 2023/970 asks employers to tell applicants about pay, to make pay criteria accessible, to answer pay information requests and to inform all workers every year of their right to ask. Through a fictional employee, Priya, we look at why part of this lands on internal communication, and one small first step....

This first episode introduces The Comms Brief, a show for people who work in employee communication, wherever they are. Each episode follows three layers: the news (what happened, who published it, when), the context (what it means for your work, and where our reading stops) and your next move (one small step you can take).

For this introduction, we are starting...