Video is an incredibly powerful communication tool that can elevate your communications and messaging regardless of your role. Which is why we’ve collated some key tips to start creating your own!

What if you could use AI to leverage your own work, rather than have it created for you? AI provides the content concept, you provide the context behind the ideation. Now, you’re most likely wondering how, and what do you mean? We’re here to tell you how to use AI to get ahead on your content planning!

Communication has the power to create workplaces where people feel comfortable to speak up about mental health challenges. If we’re able to create safe spaces for brave conversations with our communication, it leads to greater employee engagement, loyalty to leaders and the organisation, and positions your business as a place where people feel valued. But how do we start?

This October marks the third year of Hey Mel! Communication and Training and to celebrate, we’ve got some of our biggest lessons learned over the years - compiled into this neat package of a blog! We also have some sneaky offers included here, too!

In this age of digital work, remote colleagues and trying to engage with people across 20 different platforms at any given time, it’s no wonder communication is even more important to organisations of all shapes and sizes. Which is exactly why we’ve put together our top three ways to communicate empathy in a digital workplace, right here!

When we say ‘comms channels’, things can get a bit daunting. And that’s because communication channels, when managed poorly, can actually be the difference between a smoothly run organisation, a connected and informed audience, a successful product and the opposite of all of the above! Which is why we’ve put our top tips together to do it all, right here.

There comes a time when you have to explain to someone why they should choose you. Your personal elevator pitch is the quick way to give people who you are and why they should consider you - so it’s important to have it sorted! That’s why we’ve laid out the basics for you in this quick article.

While there are core practical skills you need to hit the ground running there are other skills, or traits, you’ll need to successfully navigate the comms pro world. So, we’ve listed five of them out for you!

Accessible and inclusive communication is key to ensuring you’re reaching more audience members, and also to producing better communication overall. That’s why we have collated the top 5 tips to keeping your comms accessible!

Accessibility with websites is key to reaching more audiences, more effectively. In that way, applying accessibility best-practice principles makes websites a better communication tool for everyone! That’s why we’ve outlined the 4 principles for you to remember when it comes to accessibility in your comms!

If you’re new to the communication profession, you’ll find it can be a competitive place! But if you can demonstrate you have the practical skills to hit the ground running, you’ll have a head start on most other candidates. Here are the top five practical skills you’ll need!

In reality, the more inclusive we can create our comms - the better communication we create for everyone. That’s why we’ve collated our top four tips on how to do this and what to keep in mind when creating content in the future for neurodiverse folks.

The power of connected communications sits behind the purpose of an organisation, and how we communicate that. Follow our top tips to ensure your comms resonate and drive a strategic purpose!

When it comes to communication - particularly verbal communication - knowing your audience and their preferences and tendencies is key to getting cut through. That means working to meet the needs of the introverted personalities, too!

Trust is the basis of any functioning, effective relationship. So it’s absolutely critical that leaders walk the talk, and role model the behaviours they expect of others. Which is why we've covered the "say do gap" and why it's important in order to avoid eroding trust.

A key strategy in any project or big change is to enlist change champions throughout a business to support the work. So, what is a change champion and why do we need them?

Mid-year is here and that means having performance related conversations. Having these conversations can be challenging, so we’ve put together an easy guide on our top tips on having an effective performance conversation and getting the most out of them!

We’ve come up with a five-step story framework called RISMA that will help you organise a story in a logical flow, and make sure the story really sells you - especially for your end of year reviews. RISMA stands for Results, Issue, Solution, Methodology, and Alignment. Here’s how it works.

We send a LOT of emails! So it’s no wonder mistakes are made. But they can also be costly mistakes that result in your message not being read, not resonating, or resonating in the wrong way! Here’s five common email mistakes that everyone should be on the lookout for, and how to fix them.

Sometimes personalising communication increases the risk of you getting something wrong, and damaging your credibility. Here’s our tips on when to simplify your comms, while meeting those personalisation needs.