Less Chatter, More Matter: The Communications Podcast

Another week, another filled-with-free-insights podcast episode and another incredibly insightful guest! 

Welcome to our latest guest, Kate Norris, from Presentation Boss - a business dedicated to teaching data visualisation, interpretation and how to communicate your data and findings in a way that resonates with your audience.

Why? Because one of the most common mistakes we see in communication is when people do...

This week on the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast we've diving into change messaging and how you can make sure yours is effective, inspires action and resonates with your audience.

Generally, we've seen a lot of change messaging filled with corporate language, jargon and a lot of inpersonal content. All of which doesn't inspire anyone to do anything, nor does it influence people to know, feel or do somethin...

216 million is  the amount of emails that are sent, on average, every day. 15.5 hours is the accumulated time for an average office worker to simply manage these emails, and 40 is the amount of emails we actually send ourselves on the daily. 

With numbers like these, it's a wonder how we find the brain space or time to remember the important things that the comms we receive are actually telling us.

Well, a lot of us ac...

How do you communicate about the tough topics?

More importantly, in a world of upheaval and an ongoing barrage of information and news - how do you communicate about the important things in a meaningful way, with a positive outcome?

In this week's episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, we dive head first into exactly this; how to navigate the complexities of a world in upheaval, and what you can do to commun...

Welcome back to another episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast. This week, we dive into part two of the EVP-explained series where we explain all things EVP, why it matters and how it matters to a comms pro.

For this episode, we've uncovered the process behind creating your EVP, step by step, alongside how you can embed it. We then give you the nitty-gritty details behind how you can gain traction internally...

On today's episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, we cross the bridge from comms land into HR land a little to unpack the infamous Employee Value Proposition, or EVP, as it's more commonly known. 

Why, you ask? Well, from an internal comms perspective, particularly, and even a recruitment comms perspective, we need to make sure that the business' EVP is woven into everything we do. More often than...

On this week's episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, we're starting with a jargon-busting episode dedicated to detailing out exactly what the term "thought leadership" means.

As a comms pro, you've likely heard the term "thought leadership" a million times and wondered to yourself: what does that even mean?

Not to worry! This episode is here to detail all of the reaso...

Today we've covered a new topic that has been briefly touched on in previous episodes, but we are hyper-aware that if we called it exactly what it is... nobody would listen to it, because the topic is tiresome.

However tiresome, it's still important - if not more important than a lot of others, and that is:  the legal and ethical parts that comms pros need to adhere to, or be aware of. Things like the key laws yo...

On this week's episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, we've dived into the fun topic of: social media.

We interviewed Rachael Gough, a Brisbane-based, award-winning certified personal stylist, content creator, and mum of two who is committed to showing women of all shapes and sizes, how to embrace their now and find their love for fashion, beauty, and life at all its wonderful stages. 

Now you...

Communication is important in a change, but comms itself does not make change happen. Leadership is how a change gets across the line effectively and successfully across a business, and when you combine the two - you get ownership and accountability driving your change ahead.

So, in this week's episode, we've dived into the role of leaders during a change aside from role modelling behaviours, helping to remove ro...

This week, we've turned the tables on Mel and instead of being the interviewer... she's the interviewee! Prina Shah has stepped in again this week to do a second week of absolute comms gold, interviewing Mel to discuss all things change communication.

From how stakeholders receive change comms, through to how we, as comms pros, communicate change in a way that is both effective AND helps to drive change from inte...

Welcome back to another episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, where we were joined by the incredible Prina Shah. Prina is a coach, consultant, trainer, and speaker, and the host of the Ways to Change the Workplace podcast. 

Her extensive background of over 20 plus years in the corporate world plus leading teams in strategic people and culture roles, focusing on culture change, leadership development, and change managemen...

Every single day we're seeing something of some kind of issue or crisis bubbling up in organisations of all shapes and sizes. From high-profile resignations through to large scale hacks and IT outages; we've got a plethora of crises and many organisations unsure of how to handle them.

Mostly because while it pays to put in the work for planning, doing risk assessments, and creating your usual crisis management pl...

On this week's episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast we’ve looked to the international community for some guidance on navigating new workplace laws here in Australia. 

If you have no idea what we’re talking about - we’re referring to the new ‘right to disconnect’ laws that have been floated here in Australia.  Laws that essentially give workers the right to not monitor or answer work emails and text messages, all tho...

Welcome back to another week of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast! 

This week's episode talks to personalisation in your internal comms, and how it could impact the cut-through with your messaging or, how it could help make a bigger impact on your audience.

We’re bringing you four ways you could use personalisation to up the ante on your comms and keep your audience engaged.

From covering the basics, throu...

This week's episode comes from an incredible chat with the super-knowledgeable and talented, Lisa-Marie Vecchio. As so much of what we do as communicators revolves around branding, including making sure that our messaging and visual brand align, plus that the visual brand is applied properly in our work - we thought we'd get an absolute expert onto the show to talk all about it. 

In this episode, Lisa-Marie share...

Crisis after crisis after crisis - the last few years have seemingly become a whirlwind of crises; one right after the other. From the pandemic through to hackings, all the way through to full-scale system outages - we've seen a plethora of crises, and a plethora of examples on how not to handle them as a business.

So, the next logical thing to wonder might be... how DO you handle these crises when they inevitably occ...

Whether you’ve seen this trend on your socials or not, this week’s episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast is bringing you our favourite dos and don’ts of the comms world.

It's our very own, communications-specific version of the 'Do this, Not that' trend, and we are here to explore it - while using some research from all across the globe to back up our tips.

From the language you use, to h...

This is the 50th episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast and we are so stoked to reach this important milestone!

So stoked, in fact, that we chose this week to tackle a highly controversial topic in the comms world: how to talk about the value of comms to non-comms people. Also known as, how to tell people what you do when they're fairly sure your role is solely making PowerPoints.

In this episode, ...