Ensuring Barclays employees’ appreciate their benefits
Type: Employee engagement, Share plan comms Sector: Finance
Increasing understanding of and participation in numerous employee initiatives
Background
An opinion survey at Barclays showed that employees did not fully understand, or properly value, the benefits they were offered.
Objectives
- To overcome apathy towards employee benefits and increase participation
- To increase understanding and promote the benefits of financial plans
- To promote a behavioural change by giving managers the tools to shift people from planning-mode to action-mode.
Skills applied
- Research
- Planning
- Strategy development
- Process mapping
- Workshops
- Brand development
- Messaging
- Writing and communications tools design
- Production and typesetting
Delivery
- Communications toolkits
- Invitation packs, posters, banner ads, deskdrops and promotional items
- Campaign descriptors
- Online polling
- Prioritising communication actions
- Diagnostic toolkit
- Intranets
Outcome
- A dramatic improvement in understanding as a result of improved communications
- Greater awareness of the key initiatives
- Substantially increased participation in every initiative

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