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Katie Liston is the Director of Marketing at ContactMonkey. Katie has eight years of experience in Marketing, six of which have been spent working at B2B SaaS start-ups in both Ireland and Canada. In her spare time, Katie enjoys travelling, exploring Toronto’s food and wine scene and most recently took up skiing to help pass the time during Ontario’s bitter cold winters.

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80+ Best Employee Survey Questions To Increase Engagement

Do you know what employees really think of your company? With our employee engagement survey questions list, you can gather better workplace insights and improve employee engagement across the board. By asking for feedback via effective employee survey questions, your employee-manger relationships flourish and result in increased productivity. However, to get these kinds of results, ... Read more

15 Best Employee Newsletter Templates for Internal Communications

In this post, I’m going to share 15 amazing employee newsletter templates for internal comms pros.  And trust me — as someone whose professional life involves analyzing and creating hundreds of employee newsletter templates, I’ve learned a lot about what makes or breaks a good internal comms email.  By the end of this post, you’ll: ... Read more

How To Communicate Employee Engagement Survey Results

Employee surveys are a crucial part of any internal communications strategy. But what you do with your employee survey results is what really makes a positive impact at your organization. To create a successful organization, you’ll need to do more than find talented team members—you’ll also need to keep talent at your company. But for ... Read more

10 Effective Ways To Improve Employee Survey Response Rates

Foster a feedback culture that encourages employees to share honest, constructive criticism. Learn how to improve employee survey response rates by building a people-first organization. If your employees are afraid to share their views, you have no way of gathering the employee feedback you need to make your workplace suited for team members—a recipe for ... Read more

How to Analyze Employee Survey Results with ContactMonkey

Your company-wide surveys give you tons of employee feedback, but how do you start analyzing it all? With ContactMonkey, employee survey analysis is simple, and enables easier decision-making. Many companies pride themselves on sending out annual or quarterly company-wide employee surveys. Regularly collecting employee feedback is critical, but what you do with employees’ input is ... Read more

How To Promote Diversity and Inclusion In The Workplace

Wondering how to promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace? Learn four ways that companies can maximize the benefits of DEI across their workforce and why investing in strategic diversity and inclusion efforts is essential in this day and age.  HR leaders have known for a while that embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) isn’t ... Read more

15 Company Culture Questions to Ask Your Employees

Integrate company culture questions into your employee surveys to understand what team members think of your workplace environment. Once you identify areas for improvement, take action to change the culture. In May 2020, Brian Chesky, cofounder and CEO of Airbnb, sent all employees an internal letter about his plans to navigate the pandemic. It was ... Read more

How to Change Company Culture Through Internal Communications

It’s said that real change comes from within—this is just as true for businesses. Learn how to positively change company culture with the right internal messaging. Your company culture plays a massive role in the success of your business. The best businesses embrace a company culture that allows their employees to flourish, and that motivates ... Read more

What’s the Future of Email? It’s Here to Stay

With so many communication tools available in the modern workplace, you might think email has become outdated. But the future of email looks bright: it’s an essential tool for internal and external communications. In 2021, about 319.6 billion emails were sent and received daily—that’s 4.1% more emails sent than the previous year. The number of ... Read more

Best Examples of Effective Employee Feedback for Managers

Constructive feedback encourages progress all around, and it should happen both ways. In this post, we’ll break down the best examples of employee feedback for managers to guide staff in providing effective upward feedback. Have you ever wanted to talk to your manager about something they could be doing better, but you weren’t sure how ... Read more