“The Time2Talk initiative has resulted in over 3,000 recorded conversations. That means that people have told us about 3,000 of those conversations and there are 3,000 times where we’ve potentially found issues and fixed them.”
Health & Safety Manager at Network Rail
The brief
What we did
Safety Conversations is about creating a positive environment where employees can openly discuss and discover how to can make ourselves and others safer. It is a means of identifying safety improvement opportunities through greater engagement and better communication.
Leading Safety Conversations techniques equipped Thameslink managers to inclusively ask questions and raise concerns, which in turn created an ‘Involving Culture’ within the organisation. Success of the Leading Safety Conversations initiative on Thameslink demanded engagement and support of individual members of the wider Thameslink Programme team.
Strategy
An integrated communications strategy was based on use of multiple media in order to achieve wide awareness of the method, generate excitement and embed the approach among the Thameslink team.
We proposed a monthly round up which showed a safety conversation taking place in a humorous way, using animation and illustration.
Taking on board elements of the 7-cultural themes, and the desire as an organisation to be inclusive, we took real conversations from employees and contractors and turned them into funny, but serious message scenarios. The main campaign’s creative was about maintaining engagement and consistency of the theme.
Better Communication Through Animation
Whilst communicating changes to your company is necessary, it’s a boring topic. Let’s face it, your employees don’t really want to know about the change. Subsequently, they are only partially engaged during meetings. Newsletters are usually ignored, emails are laborious to read and using the intranet relies on your employees to be proactive.
For more information on how animation can support communicating transformation and change, see our blogpost Communicating Transformation And Change Using Animation here.
Contact us
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