Episode 10 – Internal comms at the sharp end - recorded at IoIC live

For the final episode of season one, Katie Macaulay travels to Bath for IoIC Live and interviews two of the conference’s speakers, Martin Fitzpatrick and Matt Batten. Both Martin and Matt are in-house practitioners working at the sharp end of IC. Martin is internal communications and engagement business partner at B&Q, and, at the time of recording, Matt was about to leave his position at the Royal College of Nursing to become director of communications and engagement at the Church in Wales. In the Internal Comms Podcast’s first three-way conversation, ‘complete and utter comms nerd’ Matt shares the inside track on his IoIC Live presentation on health and wellbeing and equipping line managers to have more meaningful conversations about mental health. Martin meanwhile speaks about the tranche of our workforce we all need to start thinking about more strategically – older workers. As he explains, his work at B&Q to attract, remain and motivate older workers is not merely a reaction to demographic shifts – this retail chain can prove a very direct correlation between employing and supporting older workers and bottom-line profit.