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Creating an internal communications culture across multiple properties can be hard. The same is true for managing hotel operations across a diversified portfolio. It can be tough to know how to blend these various cultures and brand identities on the local level while ensuring organization-wide alignment.

How can hospitality property managers bridge the multi-location cultural divide, and ensure smooth hotel operations?

In business, change is inevitable. Companies evolve in any number of ways: new leadership, rapid growth, digital transformation, a merger, or an acquisition.

The traditional approach to change management usually implies detailed central planning and top-down hypotheses. The result? Around 70% of change projects fail.

The new collaborative way of managing change focuses on the process of collective, joint-exploration of change.  Because people are not against change per se – they are against being changed. To make the people part of the change they first need to believe in change.

Change begins with Communication.

Just like in any relationship, poor staff communication can cause an organization to slowly deteriorate. The problem with poor communication is it can be hard to recognize before the damage is done. Tasks start falling through the cracks and blame is then passed around. 

Good communication is key to the health and well being of a company.

A Towers Watson Study found companies with highly effective employee communications tools enjoy 47% higher financial returns compared to firms with ineffective communication.

Here are 6 signs a good employee communication software could spot to nip your staff communications issues in the bud.

Becoming a digital workplace is more than downloading apps, automating HR functions, or adopting communication tools.

While these are core components of a digital workplace, there has to be a well-thought-out strategy to accompany adoption that benefits every level of your company.

When a digital workplace is implemented as an intentional business solution it delivers results, like a high performing workforce, that makes your company more competitive.

As you design your digital workplace strategy you need to know:

While a necessary part of business growth as companies scale and work to maintain competitive market share, mergers and acquisitions present a multitude of challenges.

Among these challenges are maintaining workforce management, team productivity, and internal communications.

Does your company have the right communication tools to emerge victorious?

Using enterprise social media isn’t the only secret of companies with amazing internal communications, however. Here are three types of internal communications you need to automate to enhance your digital workplace and boost operations.

Workstream collaboration tools are finally becoming the standard they should have been long time ago—and for good reason.

Clear collaboration is crucial across all teams and locations, especially for companies with a large percentage of non-desk employees. Office workers have been collaborating digitally for years, and there has been a recent surge in non-desk workers joining the collaborative process to bring entire organizations together in a more cohesive manner.