GCworkplace communications tool kit
Tools for change managers, change management practitioners and communications officers to engage, inform and support employees within their organization Your organization is ready to embrace the GCworkplace vision and is looking at modernizing its workplace? This is great! You will be supporting them on embarking on a new chapter that will change the way employees work! This GCworkplace communications tool kit created by Workplace Solutions of Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) is intended to support you as you begin to communicate changes to stakeholders and employees in your organization.
How to use these tools
The tools provided in the GCworkplace communications tool kit are all about the WHAT and the WHY of GCworkplace. They will help you raise awareness about the GCworkplace vision and increase employees’ desire to reap all the benefits a modern workplace has to offer. Some of the tools in this tool kit are customizable. Don’t hesitate to put your organization’s touch on these products so they resonate with your target audiences and your departmental strategy.
Since there are many speculations and assumptions about the GCworkplace vision, you can better inform your employees by validating or invalidating some persistent and common myths. (Click here to download the French version.)
Other tools
These presentations include a number of slides about the GCworkplace vision. They tell the story about what is the GCworkplace vision, where it comes from and what it can tangibly look like when an organization decides to embrace this vision and modernize its workplace.
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words! Images increase a message’s memorability. The gallery includes photos of GCworkplace projects.
Social media are certainly one of the many communications tools you can use to raise awareness of your organization’s adoption of the GCworkplace vision and to increase the desire of your employees to be a part of it. Encourage employees to join the conversation on social media by using the two following hashtags: #GCworkplace #MilieudetravailGC.
Giving easy access to FAQs is a great way for employees to get answers to burning questions and to prevent having to answer the same questions over and over again.
Here is a link to the GCworkplace playlist on YouTube.
These key messages will provide the essential information to communicate to your audience about the GCworkplace vision. Use them to build your own communications strategy!
The purpose of this guide is to help you associate your organization’s modernization project with the overall GCworkplace initiative; we have provided overarching principles that can be used as a guide for applying the look and feel on every GCworkplace item you will be creating. In this section, you can also find downloadable icons related to the look and feel of the GCworkplace vision.
Take a look at our collection of stories about recently modernized workplaces.
Check out some employee testimonials about their GCworkplace.
Other helpful resources
The change management playbook is a guide to develop a change management program. The CM playbook consists of information, tools, and best practices in four main areas of change management: strategy, planning, implementation and measurement.
On the Workplace Change Management Community of Practice (CM CoP) GCconnex page, you will find content that can help you develop a successful workplace modernization change management program of your own. It's a place where you can share something you prepared for your organization’s workplace project with colleagues or start a conversation–whether it’s a question you have for us or your colleagues, or just a story about your experience that you’d like to share. Make sure to take a look at the “Files” tab of the page where you can find examples and templates!