One of the beautiful things about culturography is that it applies to so many different layers: employee engagement, work-life balance, organizational history, branding, corporate leadership, and marketing, to name a few. This time, let’s take a brief look at culturography through the lens of internal communications. Internal communications is an underlying fabric to all of these aspects of a business, which goes beyond announcements made at your monthly all-hands meeting, beyond emailing co-workers, beyond the kudos bulletin board. It encompasses those things and stretches to systematic employee recognition and celebration, the comfort of a completely approachable boss, confidence in complete corporate transparency, and feeling unquestionably empowered and supported. These significant feelings and attitudes are created through many micro-interactions that add up to an entire culture. Our favorite way to learn about and celebrate these aspects of culture, then, is through the stories that built it.

These are the kinds of things we’ll cover when speaking at Advanced Learning Institute’s Strategic Internal Communications Conference! We’re thrilled to announce our participation in this great event. Held in November in Washington DC, this conference boasts alumni like Facebook, Target, Southwest Airlines, and Pepsi, to name a few. We’ll be presenting culturography with our friends from The Motley Fool, and we’re honored to be among such impressive names in the organizational culture field. Joining us this time around are communications leaders from PR Newswire, Canon, Bechtel, and Estee Lauder, and more.

If you’re interested in presentations on relevant, human internal communications, check out this conference. (You can even tell ‘em Stories Incorporated sent you, and mention code SPK, for 50% off your registration.) And as we prepare, let us know what you look for in a conference presentation! We have our list… but what’s yours?

Pamela Kaye does PR and Communications for Stories Incorporated. Questions, comments, concerns, poetic insights? Let me know at info@storiesincorporated.com; I’d love to hear from you!