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Willie Walsh talk

We were honoured to be able to see Willie Walsh (previously CEO of British Airways and now of the merged BA/Iberia airline AIG) talk at the UWE in Bristol.

We have to say, the guys up at the UWE business school really do have the best black book, they’re speakers are fabulous.

We managed to speak to Willie Walsh at the end – what did we learn from him?
* Don’t let go of your direct dialogue with employees
* Keep direct comms channels always open
* Be open and honest – don’t let problems fester – deal with them
* Your manager’s are key – they must be visible and face to face dialogue between managers and employees is essential
* Talk directly to your people at any opportunity

It was great to meet him – a very open, warm, funny Irish man who said he always worked outside of his comfort zone.

Coca Cola intranet

We went to a great seminar last night by Jonathan Phillips of Coca-Cola to hear all about his thinking on their intranet. With 13,500 employees, 40+ brands and 5 languages he’s got his work cut out for him. It was great to hear a technical talk in easy to understand Plain English (thx Jonathan) and we got to hear about their intranet plans for 2015. Nuggets we took away which we thought we’d share:

- Boundaries are being blurred – finding that intranets, extranets and internets will begin to blur/merge

- Make sure you remain inclusive – not everyone out there wants to share in the new ‘social world’ and not everyone likes to receive their comms digitally – be mindful of this. In particular think of people remotely and be mindful to offer choice

- If your CEO is not a natural blogger or isn’t that interested in doing this (some dont like the idea!), then rather than ‘force this or ghost write it’ ask the CEO to comment on other people’s blogs – it will feel more genuine

- Location is the future – also called Web3 zero – intranets are developing so they’ll know where you are logging on from and where you are (via GPS). Why is this good? You can be log on to the intranet and see events relevant to the location you’re in (for example if hot desking), you can receive job vacancies in your company relevant to your location. You can build quick teams based on your skills and location on a particular day building virtual teams straight away – Credit Suisse are doing this now.

Read more about intranets with Jonathans blog which you can find at http://intranetizen.com/

A really good evening – thanks everyone.

Outdoor advertising posters are up!

Great to see the outdoor advertising poster hoarding we designed for Aster to promote their new homes development.

On location for Kirby Sheppard Solicitors Bristol Photoshoot

We enjoyed a lovely day this week doing a photoshoot for Kirby Sheppard solicitors in Bristol. The photos of the team are going to be used in the new website design we’re designing and building for the team.
As you can tell the Kirby team are models in the making!

The perfect shot

Rolling around on the floor to get the best shot

Kirby Sheppard Solicitors team - models in the making...