Less Chatter, More Matter: The Communications Podcast

This week, we welcome the incredible Victoria Rennoldson to the show to talk to the way cross-cultural communication works in a highly globalised world. On this episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, Victoria shares valuable insights on how leaders and teams can better communicate across different cultures, languages, and hybrid work environments. We then dive head first into common cha...

On this week's episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, we dive head first into the rapidly evolving landscape of virtual reality (VR) and its impact on communication... by interviewing one of the best minds in VR, Ben Breitenstein. Our resident virtual reality evangelist from Composit Design, sits down with Mel to discuss the current and potential states of VR in various fields, inc...

In this episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, we’re diving head-first into the critical role of communications during mergers and acquisitions (M&As).  Why, you ask? Because if you’ve never had to find out your workplace has been sold via a media announcement on a social media platform - have you ever really lived? Unfortunately, this is not uncommon - which is why this episode out...

The rapid shift to remote work in 2020 brought incredible challenges and changes to our internal communications. From the quick fixes like the introduction of varying comms channels (i.e. Slack, Teams, Skype, etc) through to the bandaid work from home solutions - our IT teams were under the pump.  However, as much as we can applaud their quick and efficient roll outs during a tense time - it’s bec...

In 2022 Australia was gearing up for a federal election. The Australian labor party or the ALP was in opposition at the time. And they needed to win over a specific audience: the younger generations. Meaning that the usual tactics wouldn’tcut it. And this is where a perhaps unlikely platform came into play - TikTok.  At last count tikTok had over 1 billion active users, representing almost a quart...

How many times have you avoided a tough conversation because you thought it would be difficult?  If you’re like most people, probably quite a few.  The problem is that avoiding these discussions can lead to accountability issues and team frustration - especially in a corporate environment.  However, we're here to deliver some good news on this week's episode of the Less Chatter, More Mat...

By 2025, it's estimated that the volume of data or information created, captured, copied and consumed worldwide will reach 181 zettabytes. That’s the equivalent of 4.98 quintillion movies, or 78 times the length of the Milky Way. Now you may be thinking: firstly, that’s a heck of a lot of data - and you’d be right; but secondly, you may also be wondering why this matters for a communications...

How could improv possibly play a role in improving someone's communication abilities? We're so glad you asked. This week on the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, we've got the incredibly talented and incredibly knowledgeable Mandy Plumb, from Blah Blah Blah Improv in to talk all things improv, and how it translates for a comms pro. Mandy talks us through how the skills crucial to a...

Strategic storytelling is a skill as old as time… literally. As in, most of the world couldn’t read or write until the 1980s, so how we communicated was through verbal storytelling.  This, however, has become less used over time with the introduction of length presentations and the infamous dot-point; but can we really say that those are more effective than a story? No, we actually can’t. Which is...

We're getting close to the end of financial year here in Australia, and with it comes the age-old debacle: how do we communicate our results to varying audiences? Well, this is where communications professionals come in, and it's also why this time of year isn't just stressful for the finance and investor relations folks. This time of year can include a variety of comms requirements...

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...

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...

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 telli...

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, an...

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 ca...

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 everyth...

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...

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. T...

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...

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 behavi...

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...

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, leadersh...

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...

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 wo...

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...