Arathi Menon - Communicating With The Frontline Through Technology
10/24/22 • 30 min
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Arathi Menon is the Head of Internal Communications at One Housing. She is a trained journalist whose career began in advertising as a copywriter / creative director. Over the past ten years, she has been delivering on all things IC to a wide range of businesses from a media conglomerate to a bank to a charity. She is always striving to create that perfect blend of creative and strategy. Passionate about EDI and wellbeing, she loves her job which helps companies create a culture where employees can bring their authentic self to work. She is also a published author and believes that a story well told is one well listened to. At the heart of it, she’d call herself a storyteller.
What Scott discusses with Arathi:
- The impact Meta's Workplace had on the organisation
- The differences in communicating with a large workforce in banking compared to a much smaller organization
- How CEO engagement and visibility is vital
- How she dealt with a case of misogyny on the internal comms platform
- The importance of communications during a large merger the company is currently going through
- Bridging the gap between the c-suite and front-line workers with technology
- How she uses story-telling to bring dry corporate topics to life
- And much more...
Links in this episode:
- Connect with Arathi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arathi-menon-she-her-b0a06966
- Follow Arathi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arathimen0n
- Arathi's books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arathi-Menon/e/B08QH7HPTG/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
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- Podcast website: https://www.rebeldiaries.net
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How Scott can help you and your business
- Scott's website for High Performance Training and Coaching: https://www.scottfulton.co.uk
- Digital Rebels - Digital Development and Consulting: https://www.digitalrebels.co.uk
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Leave Scott a voicemail and possibly get featured on the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/rebeldiariesvoicemail
Arathi Menon is the Head of Internal Communications at One Housing. She is a trained journalist whose career began in advertising as a copywriter / creative director. Over the past ten years, she has been delivering on all things IC to a wide range of businesses from a media conglomerate to a bank to a charity. She is always striving to create that perfect blend of creative and strategy. Passionate about EDI and wellbeing, she loves her job which helps companies create a culture where employees can bring their authentic self to work. She is also a published author and believes that a story well told is one well listened to. At the heart of it, she’d call herself a storyteller.
What Scott discusses with Arathi:
- The impact Meta's Workplace had on the organisation
- The differences in communicating with a large workforce in banking compared to a much smaller organization
- How CEO engagement and visibility is vital
- How she dealt with a case of misogyny on the internal comms platform
- The importance of communications during a large merger the company is currently going through
- Bridging the gap between the c-suite and front-line workers with technology
- How she uses story-telling to bring dry corporate topics to life
- And much more...
Links in this episode:
- Connect with Arathi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arathi-menon-she-her-b0a06966
- Follow Arathi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arathimen0n
- Arathi's books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arathi-Menon/e/B08QH7HPTG/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
Keep in touch with the show
- Leave Scott a voicemail and possibly get featured on the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/rebeldiariesvoicemail
- Connect with Scott on social media: https://linktr.ee/scottfulton
- Podcast website: https://www.rebeldiaries.net
Leave a review
- Please leave a review (written if possible) on your podcast app of choice
How Scott can help you and your business
- Scott's website for High Performance Training and Coaching: https://www.scottfulton.co.uk
- Digital Rebels - Digital Development and Consulting: https://www.digitalrebels.co.uk
Additional resources (Purchasing using the links below helps support the running of the show)
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Rob Gardner is an investor, entrepreneur and author committed to delivering financial freedom in a world worth living in. As Director of Investments at SJP he was responsible for investing more than £150 billion of clients’ wealth. He co-founded Redington, mallowstreet and the charity RedSTART. He is a board director and investor in Rebalance Earth a global ecosystems platform for valuing and investing in nature to help reverse climate change, biodiversity loss and create economic prosperity for local communities.
What Scott discusses with Rob
- The interlink between purpose and financial resilience
- How the average person in the UK only has about 40% of the money set aside to retire comfortably
- How to get financial resilience and its effect on your financial health
- How 50% of mental health issues are typically to do with worry about money
- Rob's soon to be published book "Freedom, How to Earn it, Keep it and Grow it"
- Rob's new start-up and how he is looking to help money flow to where it is needed in nature and to protect the environment
- And much more...
Links in this episode
- Rob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertjgardner/
- Follow Rob on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robertjgardner
- Rob's keynote at CordaCon on "Money as a Force for Good": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSvmUpythUs
- Shmee 150: https://www.youtube.com/user/Shmee150
- How Will You Measure Your Life?: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13425570-how-will-you-measure-your-life
- Save Your Acorns Book: https://saveyouracorns.com/
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How Scott can help you and your business
- Scott's website for High Performance Training and Coaching: https://www.scottfulton.co.uk
- Digital Rebels - Digital Development and Consulting: https://www.digitalrebels.co.uk
Additional resources (Purchasing using the links below helps support the running of the show)
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Joanna Parsons - Overcoming The Chaos Of Internal Communications
Leave Scott a voicemail and possibly get featured on the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/rebeldiariesvoicemailJoanna Parsons is a multi-award-winning communicator who specialises in internal communications - helping organisations communicate more effectively with their employees. She works with a tech company called Teamwork as Head of Internal Communications & Culture. Previously, she played a leading role in the Irish police force as their Head of Internal Communications during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Joanna won 4 communication awards for the work she delivered with the police.
Joanna absolutely loves working in communications but absolutely detests working in chaos. In this episode she shares some of her thoughts on why working in communications can often feel so frantic, and what you can do to stop firefighting and start focusing on quality work that will really make an impact.
What Scott discusses with Joanna
- The problem with taking a lack of evidence-based approach
- Using tools to organise your work and how they can relieve stress
- How you need to match your ambition to your resources
- How to build trust and find you start to get more of what you need
- Moving out of the reactive space into the strategic space
- How many internal comms professionals see themselves
- What type of personalities are attracted to the role
- How they are perceived by the organisation
- Steps to take if you are struggling with too many requests for work
- How she was the first ever Head of Internal Comms in the Irish Police
- And much more...
Links in this episode
- Joanna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannaparsons/
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629.Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance
Keep in touch with the show
- Leave Scott a voicemail and possibly get featured on the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/rebeldiariesvoicemail
- Connect with Scott on social media: https://linktr.ee/scottfulton
- Podcast website: https://www.rebeldiaries.net
Leave a review
- Please leave a review (written if possible) on your podcast app of choice
How Scott can help you and your business
- Scott's website for High Performance Training and Coaching: https://www.scottfulton.co.uk
- Digital Rebels - Digital Development and Consulting: https://www.digitalrebels.co.uk
Additional resources (Purchasing using the links below helps support the running of the show)
Rebel Diaries - Arathi Menon - Communicating With The Frontline Through Technology
Transcript
[00:00:00] Scott: Hi, I'm Scott Fulton, the host of the Rebel Diaries podcast. This show will help you learn how to make work better for you, your colleagues and the organization you work for. I believe the modern workplace is broken for too many people with leaders and their teams, drowning in corporate complexity, information overload, and unnecessary levels of stress.
[00:00:18] Scott: Having spent over 20 years leading disruptive high-performing tea
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