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Who is Melcrum?
Melcrum is a privately held research and training business. We’re committed to supporting senior-level communicators to achieve the rewards and recognition they deserve.
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How does Melcrum support internal communicators?
With budgets and resources under pressure, let Melcrum be your partner. We’ll support you and your team by giving you access to a huge range of ready-to-use tools and templates, answer your questions, give you research data you can use in your presentations, and tell you what’s working for other communicators.
What's your internal communication challenge?
Our researchers spend their time meeting and talking to practitioners to find out where the best work gets done. Internal communicators tell us what their challenges are and trust us to find the answers. We then share these tools, techniques, and case studies with our members.
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Why join?
There’s never been a more challenging time to be an internal communicator. Keeping engagement high, new channels to master, change as a constant, opportunities galore. But doing more with less, means you need the best training and support you can get.
Which is where Melcrum comes in.
When you think about it, chances are that someone, somewhere has already worked on a similar communication challenge to the one you’re facing. So why re-invent the wheel?
Tap in to the collective wisdom of your peers and take advantage of Melcrum’s huge archive of research materials, case studies and shared learning offered. Harness the collective problem solving skills of our member network group to resolve your challenge.
Why choose to work in isolation? Through our research, we provide you with the insight, information and tools to do your job more effectively.
Five reasons to join today:
Raise your game: You’ve got a meeting in twenty minutes. You need a crash course in how to re-engage employees after a layoff announcement or justify your budget to your boss... What are other communicators doing? What are their metrics, their budget, their results? Dive in for authoritative, independent guidance you can use. Now.
Train your whole team: From in-house training run at your office, formal accreditation, awards and recognition programs, conferences and workshops, we can help your team develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed.
Develop your network: Connect with people like you to discuss your challenges online or face-to-face at breakfast briefings, evening receptions, public courses and conferences.
Benchmark: Find out how you measure up with research data on budgets, resources, departmental structures and more plus hundreds of corporate case studies detailing good practice.
Answers to your questions: Ask any internal communication question and get a detailed answer from Victoria Mellor or one of the Melcrum research team within 24 hours.
So who are our members?
A typical Melcrum member would be a senior-level internal communicator working for a large complex global business. His or her role will normally involve drafting the communication strategy for the organization, measuring the results from communication programs, organizing and facilitating workshops to help line managers become better communicators, communicating change internally, and engaging employees using social media. Members represent all industry sectors including financial services, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, government, communications and technology.
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So what does great internal communication look like?
You understand that good communication leads directly to better business results. Melcrum’s research sets out to prove the link between communication and the bottom line. Whether that’s through improving the communication skills of leaders and managers; getting the most from new technologies; engaging employees through strategy communication; getting change communication right, or proving the value of what you do through effective research and measurement.
Why Melcrum?
Melcrum’s name comes from the last names of its founders, Victoria Mellor and Robin Crumby who started the business in 1996 as a kitchen-table start-up. Today, Melcrum’s energetic staff and affiliate network span the globe, with employees in the USA, UK, South Africa and Australia.
