Linking our people with Microsoft Lync

Mina Dhillon, Internal Communication Manager

Coming up…

• About the charity

• Our communication

challenges and needs

• Our Microsoft Lync journey

• Top communication tips

Our internal communication challenge

• Small budget

• Dispersed workforce across

the UK

• Silo working

• Few internal

communications channels

Our communication needs

• A cost-effective solution

• To make everyone feel like

one charity

• Create awareness of

different projects

• Platform for two-way

dialogue

• To celebrate successes

Our Microsoft Lync journey

• Helped us communicate a

field team restructure

• Engaged our people with the

new strategy

• Staff across the UK can

hear live presentations

• Team-led Lync-ups launched

to introduce key projects and

celebrate successes

160 people

Top tips

• Get the technology right

• Do dress rehearsals

• Remember people can present

differently to PC than in person

• Set Lync etiquette

• Mix up the content

• Keep Lync-ups to 30 minutes

• Try to avoid mixing a Lync

audience with a live one

We’re the Parkinson’s charity that drives

better care, treatments and quality of life.

Together we can bring forward the day

when no one fears Parkinson’s.

Visit the CharityComms website

to view slides from past events,

see what events we have

coming up and to check out

what else we do:

www.charitycomms.org.uk

Seminar

30 June 2016

London

#CCinternalcomms

The internal

communicator’s

digital toolkit