By Celia Willis Almost overnight, a new specialty has emerged in professional services: wellness for remote workers. Salesforce, Axis Bank, Google, Nike and Microsoft all are hosting online meditation sessions for their thousands of employees now working from home. Supporting workforce wellness shows employees you care and contributes to a company’s overall success by increasing…
Published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on April 27, 2020. By Celia Willis Within hours of the 9/11 attacks, the queue at Red Cross blood donation centers wrapped around the block, long-estranged family members headed home for supper, and America’s churches were filled to overflowing. Our instinct, when threatened, is to seek each’s company. To…
Before COVID-19 made “sheltering in place” more than just an introvert’s ideal weekend, the word “community” evoked thoughts of gathering together, lending a hand and creating social connections with like-minded friends and neighbors. Granted, none of that has changed, but we’ve now relegated all that togetherness to cyberspace, and it happened practically overnight. The coronavirus…
We’ve said it before – we’ll say it again. A strong, healthy community is good for business, especially with companies across the country adapting to a work-from-home model in response to COVID-19. According to Gallup, companies in the top quartile of employee engagement are 21% more profitable, 17% more productive and experience nearly 60% less…
At your core, what do you value? I value community. My partner and I are in the process of buying our first home, and when deciding where to live I had one request of the neighborhood: It must be somewhere where we’ll have trick-or-treaters. This might seem silly, but it’s a representation of what community…
90,000 hours. That’s how much time the average American will spend at work in his or her lifetime.1 Take a second to really think about that: ninety thousand hours – a third of your life – spent working. That’s pretty scary. But you know what’s even scarier? The fact that one-third of these employees are not…
The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity is all about connections: the ones brands make with their audiences, the ones agencies make with brands (hello, new biz!) and the ones industry professionals make with each other. This culture of connectedness is real, palpable and full of key learnings for communicators. The message that rang loudest to…
Turns out, being a communications firm at the Cannes Lions Festival is a great way to stand out. In a festival dominated by ad and marketing folks, our employee engagement and public relations focus meant we were a fly on the wall of an opulent palace. However, beneath the extravagant trappings, deep issues were candidly addressed…
Do you ever have one of those ideas that pops into your head, so you stop everything to write it down before you lose it? (Or, in this case, type it out in a Google Doc because you’re a millennial in a mobile office environment so pen and paper is a thing of the past…)…
The early years of the new millennium witnessed a digital transformation, the impact of which I believe will rival that of the industrial revolution. While people have and should hope this movement will bring us closer together, research has shown that it has, in many ways, left us more disconnected than ever. And it happened…