Generating Employee Newsletter Article Ideas
Coming
up with great employee newsletter ideas every time you write your
employee newsletter is perhaps the most frustrating part of your job. Be careful, because month after month of struggling with this task can lead to a feeling of drudgery and dread.Your solution is on this page. Instead of hating your job, love FrontLine Employee Editable Newsletter.
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To reduce your stress and prevent a frustrating experience in creating an employee newsletter, you need to create a structure and a system that works automatically to produce the sort of content you want so you can complete other assignments that are most certainly part of your job. If you have quality employee newsletter ideas before sitting down to write your newsletter, it will go faster and smoother, and the articles you produce will be of higher quality.
No matter how excited you are about creating an employee newsletter, definitely plan ahead so content comes easily. If you do not, you will dread this job and you will find yourself on weekends giving up your personal life, forced to produce the company newsletter.
There are FIVE major sources of employee newsletter ideas that I would like to recommend. They include 1) issues going on in your workplace and the lives of your employees that you can plainly see that everyone has awareness of; 2) recommendations made to you by employees and management; 3) a search of topics that you might find appropriate on the Web site known as USA.gov (this is a web site portal for the U.S. Government but there is so much stuff on this site, employee newsletter ideas will not b hard to find); 4) newsletter topics that are related to current issues in your community locally or nationally; and 5) a survey of the most popular topics of concern facing companies and employees by searching Twitter, HR Workforce Management Forums, and employee newsletter ideas you can easily derive by reading popular work-life-consumer journals and magazines.
Employee Newsletter Ideas from Workplace Issues
Pay attention. Have there been layoffs, a recent accident, a theft, downsizing, or a lot of people out sick with the Flu? To generate content ideas ask who, what, when, how, which, why, where, and “what’s behind the story”. As you spot issues day by day or week by week, jot down your employee newsletter ideas and keep them in a file, can, or folder.
Ideas from Your Employees
Solicit employee newsletter ideas fro your employees. Talk to your teams about issues they face. They will keep you busy with new ideas but you must ask. Pay attention to their complaints because they will tell what they want and in some cases you don't need to ask, instead, just observe behavior on the job and issues will become clear. Do a survey formally. This works great and then plan articles for future issues--and if you are smart--write ahead.
Search the USA.gov Web Site
There is a ton of stuff on this web site that includes content from the federal agencies of the U.S. government, state, local governments, and universities nationwide. Google a topic and you are sure to find a tone of stuff.
Local News and National Events
A word of caution: Stay away from national politics as topics for your newsletter or politically charged content or controversial topics that rub people the wrong way. This includes religious matters and most ecological content issues like global warming, conservation ecology, and animal rights. These subjects will cause big problems and your employees will raise heck. The sooner your employee newsletter article ideas includes these articles the more effective they will be.
Topics on Forums, Journals, and Social Media
These super types of sources can help you discover what is topical and on people's minds right now. Go to Twitter and scan entries. Here's how: Twitter.com actually will give you content entries that by keywords if you search its browser. Let us say you need employee newsletter ideas related to workplace. Do this: Search the Twitter browser bar starting with “Workplace Problem with_______” and see what pops up. You will be surprised. It might be trouble with finding daycare or trouble with the boss. Ideas associated with these issues will pop in your head. Be sure to write them down.
So, avoid stress and mind blocks and the staring at a blank screen on your computer when trying to produce employee newsletter ideas. Use a system and love your job more.
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