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Employee Newsletters for Small Companies

July 1st, 2010

Employee Newsletters for Small Companies photoA visitor Manager Request – Guide Web site to deliver content for a newsletter, that are used to acquire the 60 occupational groups, relevant department will not have time to write a full bulletin.

I emailed the following response (slightly edited):

They have a good question. With 60 employees, your staff is large enough to need a newsletter, but not big enough to spend more to make commitments. On this basis, let me with a few remarks to you.

First, I am not – m ‘sure why you want to communicate with employees, I believe it is their loyalty and keep in order to increase their productivity (both general goals for the employee newsletter).

To maintain the increase (perhaps) loyalty, I would recommend that you or any other appropriate person to sit once a month and write letters. Take it as a letter to a friend or colleague, report and any news of interest to them. You can change the nomination report, the policy as one for services, or other information they would find useful. Once again, I would like to emphasize the need for an informal approach, perhaps something that reflects this letter to you. Avoid it, it sounds like a memo, if possible. And, I will laser print or copy and write, instead of using electronic mail.

With regard to productivity, I will not buy goods from a third party, unless you into something that really impressed to find. They say it is the people, the professionals, what I would suggest that they have access to the Internet, and there can be no end of information already.

Instead, I’ll create a simple budget and then pay with the employees, with useful tips and articles which can be used for their peers and even more productive. For example, will give $ 20 per employee per issue, the budget of about $ 1,200, two points on offer 500-1000 words to buy for $ 500 per person, and the four peaks 100-200 words for $ 50 each. Or if you want to spend to $ 10 per employee, then you can buy an article and two tips. After the materials at hand, printed and distributed to the employees. Can be transmitted with or separate from a letter about the internal problems.

Finally, you can look at the Hawthorne experiments in the late 1920s and early 1930s occurred. Researchers set out to find changes in the internal environment (such as lighting, etc.) that most of the improvement in productivity.

They discovered, much to my surprise, they say, is that productivity increased regardless of changes made. For example, productivity increases when increasing the amount of light, as expected. But it remains when the amount of light from which is not expected.

All this led researchers find that it received the attention of the staff, not by changes that will make a difference. Now we see this phenomenon in which the employees responded that they receive attention, such as the Hawthorne effect.

All this is a roundabout way to say that the act of communication is often more important than content or style. As long as you do something, perhaps it is better than nothing.

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