WHERE IC PROFESSIONALS COME TO TALK
ARE YOU ABOUT TO SNAP UNDER PRESSURE?
Helping the workforce to maintain their wellbeing and have happy, stress-free days at work is part of the remit of any internal comms team. But what are the tensions IC practitioners face themselves and how do they handle the strain?
“I don’t sleep. I make mistakes because there’s no time to think or research – it’s just get-it-out,get-it-out, get-it-out. Then I isolate myself and go into my shell and start thinking I’m a failure.”
That’s what workplace stress feels like, in the words of one internal communication professional. Sound familiar?
Another recalls “waking up at 3am thinking about a project,...
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