There is a growing community of individuals and groups passionate about how we communicate and engage with people in the workplace.
I've put together a list of useful links in one place that you can bookmark and come back to whenever you need help or inspiration.
If you have a suggestion to add, just get in touch.
Internal Communication Strategy - Design, Develop and Transform your Organizational Communication by Rachel Miller
Leading the Listening Organisation - Creating Organisations that Flourish by Mike Pounsford, Kevin Ruck, Howard Krais
From cascade to conversation - The premise of From Cascade to Conversation is that broadcasting to employees has become dangerously archaic
Branding Inside Out - Build a successful brand and create value through achieving the active involvement of an organisation's people
Strategic Internal Communication - How to build employee engagement and performance
Internal Communications - A manual for practitioners
The People Business - How ten leaders drive engagement through internal communications
Making the Connections - Using internal communication to turn strategy into action
Better Internal Communications - How to add value, be more strategic and fast-track your career
Successful Employee Communications - practitioner's guide to tools, models and best practice by Sue Dewhurst and Liam FitzPatrick
Exploring Internal Communication - Dr Kevin Ruck explores models, tips and research including guest authors
Influential Internal Communication - Jenni Field shares 'The Field Model' and streamline organisational communications
FutureNet World Book Day 2021 - Personal recommendations from the FutureNet committee
Becoming a Chartered PR helped me overcome my imposter syndrome - CIPR Influence article by Catherine Ritchie
Are you ready to become a Chartered Public Relations Practitioner? - Article on the CIPR Influence website
CIPR Chartership - Official information from the CIPR
Getting Chartered – Q&A session with CIPR Inside - CIPR Inside Q&A article
Chartered assessment for the remote world - CIPR Inside article by Katie Marlow
Why more internal communicators should get Chartered - CIPR Inside article by Martin Flegg
How to get Chartered - CIPR East Anglia article by Sarah Roberts
Why becoming Chartered is good for business - Article by Rachel Miller
The power of the growing Chartered PR collective - Influence article by Martin Flegg
Becoming a Chartered PR helped me overcome my imposter syndrome - CIPR Influence article by Catherine Ritchie
Are you ready to become a Chartered Public Relations Practitioner? - Article on the CIPR Influence website
Making your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) count - Article on the CIPR Influence website
All Things IC - training, mentoring and Masterclasses
CIPR Chartership - Official information from the CIPR
How to ace your Internal Comms qualification - CIPR Inside article by Noel Armstrong
10 ways to complete your CPD - CIPR Inside article by Noel Armstrong
Getting Chartered – Q&A session with CIPR Inside - CIPR Inside Q&A article
Chartered assessment for the remote world - CIPR Inside article by Katie Marlow
Why more internal communicators should get Chartered - CIPR Inside article by Martin Flegg
How to get Chartered - CIPR East Anglia article by Sarah Roberts
Why becoming Chartered is good for business - Article by Rachel Miller
The power of the growing Chartered PR collective - Influence article by Martin Flegg
The IC Career Guide - FutureNet IOIC guide
IoIC Profession map - Helping to identify knowledge, skills and behaviours required
PR Academy - Provides a variety of accredited communication certificate and diploma qualifications
Institute of Internal Communications - Offers internal comms diploma and master level qualifications in addition to specialist courses
Chartered Institute of Public Relations - Provides accredited qualifications and training courses
Chartered Institute of Marketing - Provides an introduction course to internal comms
Bournemouth University - Offers the CIPR accredited internal comms diploma
5 learnings from 100 days in internal comms - CIPR Inside article by Charlotte Turnbull
Under-represented speaker list - A list created by Advita Patel of Comms Rebel who curated this list of underrepresented speakers from various industries
CPID – Inclusion and diversity in the workplace - resources on what inclusion and diversity mean in the workplace and how an effective I&D strategy can support business
PRSA Diversity toolkit - case studies, templates and resources
CIPR Diversity resources - reports and research insights
CIPR Diversity and Inclusion network - helping to develop an inclusive culture within public relations
Beginner’s Guide to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging and the Role of IC workshop - led by Harriet Smallies, Comms over a Coffee
Women in Communications conference - Organised by Dods Parliamentary Communications and held in partnership with the IoIC, CMA, PRCA and CIPR.
Guide to writing reports, proposals and business cases - Produced by the PR Academy
Guide to PR and Communication measurement - Produced by the PR Academy
Guide to writing a comms strategy - Produced by the PR Academy
Stakeholder identification guide - Produced by the PR Academy
Ultimate guide to Internal Comms - Involve
Project management for communicators guide - PR Academy
Canva - graphics and social media card maker
IRA Design - build your own amazing illustrations
DrawKit - hand-drawn vector illustration and icon resources
unDraw - open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create.
Intranet Connections - department-specific use cases, news articles, and industry best practices.
CIPR Influence - Internal comms related articles
Brilliant Ink - Internal communications agency that specialises in designing meaningful employee experiences
Simpplr #Connect blog - Insights on improving employee communication, engagement and productivity
Workvivo - thoughts on engagement, communication and tools
jostle - employee engagement and internal communications
The IC space - The Government Communication Service
Suzie Robinson - Suzie Robinson
Redefining Communications - Jenni Field
Little Bird Communication - Katie Marlow
IC Kollectif - Canadian not for profit
Home - Home in Bristol
HD Comms - Helen Deverell
The IC Citizen - Martin Flegg
EPICOM - European School for Communication and Management
Comms Rebel - Advita Patel
Comma Comms - Shelby Loasby & Brad Johnson
Browning York - Sarah Browning
Annique Simpson - Annique Simpson
All Things IC - Rachel Miller
Adventures in internal communications - Jenni Kempf
AB Thinks - thoughts from the AB agency
comms2point0 jobs listing - comms, PR, marketing and digital opportunities
All Things IC - latest roles in internal communication, PR and social media
The Comms Hive - Allowing middle to senior communicators meet up and have a conversation about all things comms
ICology - Global network
Internal Comms pros - United States of America
The Insititute of Internal Communication
Comms Unplugged - Not-for-profit community
CIPR Inside - Sub-group of CIPR
The Employee Experience (EX) Hub - The Employee Experience (EX) Hub was created by employee engagement platform WorkBuzz
PR Place - LinkedIn group
EPICOM – European Internal Communications - LinkedIn group
Comms Hero Guild group - A peer support group for those working in comms, marketing and PR
Comms & PR Pioneers Guild group - Guild group for PR professionals to connect, communicate and collaborate
PRCA PR and Comms Community Guild group - Guild group for PRCA members and non-members
ICology - an online community of internal communicators
CIPR Inside Guild group - CIPR Inside committee run their own Guild group
The Internal Communicators’ Community Guild group - online group support those new to the IC profession
HubSpot Make My Persona - create a persona that your entire company can use
Whimsical Flowcharts - create mindmaps, flowcharts and wireframes
HTML Colors From Image - upload file from your computer or insert link to online image to access its color codes
StockSnap - free stock photos and images
Disabled And Here - disability-led stock image and interview series celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC)
The Gender Spectrum Collection - stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models
Nappy - free stock photos of Black and Brown people
Unsplash - free stock photo library
The Irwin Mitchell podcast - covering topics including diversity, inclusion, health and wellbeing for colleagues.
Have you got 5 minutes? - Harriet Small and Rebecca Roberts
Internal Comms Pro: The podcast - Real examples from within business
Calm Edged Rebels - Advita Patel, Jenni Field and Trudy Lewis
Candid Comms - Rachel Miller - AllthingsIC
Redefining Communications - Jenni Field
The Future of Internal Communication - Institute of Internal Communication
A Leader Like Me - Amplifying diverse voices
You’re My CommsHero - Featuring regular guest speakers from the CommsHero community
Comms Minute - smarp
Talking Comms - Adrian Stirrup and Darren Caveney
Remote Control - streamGo
Internal Comms Talk - Johnna Lacey
Internal Communication in the Raw - Institute of Internal Communication
Engaging Internal Comms - Craig Smith
Internal Miscommunications - Erica Goodwin and Keith Riley
Be a Bigger Fish - Peppermint fish
The Comms Shift - Smarp
IC Unplugged - Gallagher company
The Internal Communications Podcast - Happeo
ICology - Chuck Gose
#CU on the air - Comms Unplugged
The Internal Comms Podcast - Katie Macaulay sits down with IC thought-leaders
Matthew Batten - Communication specialist in Church Comms and Mens Wellbeing
Stephen Waddington - Corporate communications, PR, marketing and social media
Sharon Tanton - Storytelling and content marketing coach
Scott Guthrie - Building the business of influence
PR Place - Backed by PR Academy
Neville Hobson - Intersection of business, communication and technology
Nafisa Shafiq - Student communications
Marcel Klebba - PR, social and digital
Ella’s blog - Power and influence
Dan Slee - Social media, PR and digital communications in the public sector
Comms2Point0 - Shared learning space for comms professionals by Darren Caveney
CIPR influence - Backed by CIPR
AmandaComms - Public sector communications professional
Seren Creative - Debbie Aurelius
Clearbox report – Best intranet platforms - 2022 review
Roundel 2021 - employee experience research by The Home agency
Who’s listening? - Dr Kevin Ruck, Mike Pounsford and Howard Krais
Remotely interested - Redefining Communications and SocialOptic
Power of storytelling - 106 Comms, engaging your people
The Rise of the Internal Communicator - Watson Helsby
The Next Level - IC Kollectif, report into the business value of internal communications
State of the sector 2019 report - Gatehouse
Making it count report - CIPR Inside, strategic value and effectiveness of IC
Intersection of Internal & External Communications - IC Kollectif
How Internal Communicators can help leaders communicate & engage - H&H agency
Employee advocacy - 106 Comms, a more effective employer brand
Disrupting the function of IC - IC Kollectif, a global perspective
Change Comms - 106 Comms, 110 views on change comms
Agile and responsive organisations - 106 Comms, the power of communications
Intranet Connections - department-specific use cases, news articles, and industry best practices
Crisis Comms Hub - A PR Academy resource
Government Communications Service - resources and guides from the GCS
jostle - resources to help you build an extraordinary workplace by jostle
Local Government Association - Over a dozen sections that explain more about different aspects of internal communication
Comm:Files - Search for examples and resources across all PR areas
Comms2Point0 - Toolbox of useful resources for communication professionals
PR Academy toolkit - Variety of guide and toolkits for PR and internal communication
All Things IC - training, mentoring and Masterclasses
Intranet Connections Bootcamp - designed to help build a foundational understanding of internal communications
PR Academy - Provides a variety of accredited communication certificate and diploma qualifications
Institute of Internal Communications - Offers internal comms diploma and master level qualifications in addition to specialist courses
Chartered Institute of Marketing - Provides an introduction course to internal comms
Bournemouth University - Offers the CIPR accredited internal comms diploma
What can we do about mental health of the profession - CIPR Inside article by Jo Hooper
Embedding mental health - CIPR case studies and resources
Fresh Air Fridays - Individual and workplace wellbeing support
The chat - Jo Hooper, mental health in the workplace specialist
2021 Mental Health Awareness Week: FutureNet recommends - FutureNet committee personal recommendations