How to make your intranet a communications destination

Intranets are an incredible tool for internal communicators, a private network website exclusively for your organization’s employees where communication and collaboration come to life.

Communication teams often establish a new intranet or refresh an existing one because they want to:

Often, though, communicators develop an intranet when they hear directly from employees about feeling disconnected from headquarters. This is especially true for regional, national, and internationally-distributed teams.

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Here are some tips to ensure that your intranet serves as an active communications hub for everyone at your organization:

Offer training before and after launch.

Every time an organization introduces a new internal tool or service creates an additional task for employees to learn while doing their jobs. And everyone has a different learning curve. You can move this process along by providing pre-launch materials, creating lead-up announcements to launch day and hosting training webinars where employees can pop in and ask questions.