Employee communications
Maintaining a competitive advantage
More than ever companies care about the wellbeing of their people and understand the value of effective employee communications. Often, the long-term growth of a business is linked to recruiting, developing and retaining top talent.
We help clients maintain a competitive advantage by developing communications that inform, motivate and engage.
By delivering more effective communications, we can ensure staff understand your mission and values, motivating them to seek solutions that help your company achieve its business goals. In addition, companies that engage and empower their workforce also tend to see benefits such as higher internal morale, improved productivity and lower absenteeism.
We combine creative thinking with the latest technology to deliver employee communications that achieve outstanding results. We’ve worked with a wide range of clients to successfully shape employee communications strategy and develop tools that drive engagement and support business growth.
Employee communications projects
Our brochure design team helped AstraZeneca communicate the scientific leadership of their IMED Biotech Unit with a striking design to inspire internal teams and attract top external talent.
AstraZeneca
Science brochure design
Visuals, pace, voiceover and music track all combine to deliver a corporate cyber security video that, while calm, transmits a strong sense of unease and personal responsibility.
Ventient Energy
Corporate cyber security video
To encourage awareness and company-wide use of our client's AskAZ portal, we developed a suite of internal communications animated explainer videos that educate and engage.
AstraZeneca
Internal communications animated explainer
With the workforce gradually returning to AstraZeneca sites, we developed a set of award-winning internal stakeholder communications collateral that helped generate awareness of the variety of Covid-19 PCR tests available.
AstraZeneca
Internal stakeholder communications
An uncomplicated and impactful animated information video that helped highlight the ongoing risk of Covid-19 and the importance of testing to guarantee a safe workplace.
AstraZeneca
Animated information video
As a branding agency that specialises in employee communications, employee engagement solutions and marketing strategy, we were asked to change perceptions of our client's IT department and to increase awareness amongst employees of the support services offered by the team.
AstraZeneca
Brand strategy and design
We contributed to higher levels of employee engagement by empowering AstraZeneca's Global Engineering team to prioritise safety with a design that helped reduce accidents across its construction sites worldwide.
AstraZeneca
Employee engagement brochure
This historic edition of our client's' company magazine tells a compelling story of their head-on fight against Coronavirus.
INEOS
Company magazine
To educate Four Seasons employees on the impact of not complying with GDPR, we produced a fun and colourful animation inspired by Pop Art that contributed to an effective and engaging learning experience.
Four Seasons Health Care
Compliance animated video
Our content creation team used custom motion graphics to instil unity among SPXFLOW's global team by encouraging employee engagement and highlighting how each individual contributes to collective goals. The animation was a success at all SPXFLOW'S global locations.
SPXFLOW
Employee engagement animation
To help make internal opportunities more accessible to employees, AstraZeneca needed a digital agency with a web development team who could create a talent development web app to manage its enterprise-wide secondments and mentoring programme, all with the aim of enhancing employee engagement.
AstraZeneca
Talent development web app
A Pop Art comic-book format was the vehicle chosen to remind employees of the importance of complying with GDPR across Four Seasons Health Care homes. The bright and punchy visual style helped generate curiosity and intrigue.
Four Seasons Health Care
Employee engagement booklet design
To maximise awareness of an ambitious initiative, we created a project infographic that strikes the perfect balance between engaging visuals and factual information.
AstraZeneca
Project infographic design
A global supplier of highly specialised engineered solutions approached us to help them articulate the strategy for one of their divisions. We created a motivational infographic that contributed to increased levels of employee engagement.
SPXFLOW
Organisational strategy infographic
A real departure from other Allmed communication materials, we created an inspiring and imaginative employee engagement illustration that acted as a magnet in the corporate space, stoking curiosity and inspiring conversations.
Allmed
Employee engagement illustration
As a design agency with a history of creating successful employee engagement ideas, we were asked to create a standout employee communications pack that would get people talking. This travel-themed print design was a hit across the company's 80 UK locations.
Hilton Hotels
Employee communication pack
Proud of everything we do, this is another one for our design portfolio. As an innovative design agency we helped inspire workplace change and boost employee engagement levels: we delivered an impressive design that helped global employees embrace a new smarter working initiative.
SmartSpace
Staff engagement brochure
To help the internal communications team at AstraZeneca foster a sense of unity and collaboration across teams worldwide, our web development team delivered a user-friendly event management app to boost employee engagement.
AstraZeneca
Event management application
Our digital agency expertise delivered an attractive email marketing solution that helped improve employee communications and had a positive impact on employee engagement levels across AstraZeneca's North West England sites.
AstraZeneca
Email newsletter design
To help AstraZeneca launch an ambitious employee referral programme, we created an explainer animation that captured the imagination of its global workforce and resulted in increased levels of employee engagement.
AstraZeneca
Animated explainer video
GSK needed a digital agency to help them raise awareness of meningitis amongst employees. Our web development team devised an interactive and user-friendly web app where staff could share stories. The new tool was a success and significantly increased employee engagement levels.
GSK
Employee engagement web app
Parker's digital agency capabilities provided a cost-effective digital marketing solution that encouraged engaging content creation. The private social network our web development team created boosted employee engagement overall and was a hit at a national sales event.
AstraZeneca
Private social network
Now approaching its 30th edition, this company magazine design tells the story of the relentless determination and energy that fuel INEOS’s constant thirst for innovation.
INEOS
Company magazine design
The employee engagement video we produced is a "Day in the Life" piece of internal communications that engages from the start.
H&T Presspart
Employee engagement video
An engaging global employee onboarding pack that successfully presents AstraZeneca as a Great Place to Work.
AstraZeneca
Employee onboarding pack
We created an interactive employee magazine that feels personal, with that interactivity playing a major role in giving employees a sense of ownership.
AstraZeneca
Interactive employee magazine
By focusing on people, we created a team achievements animation that exudes positivity, a strong sense of celebration and confidence in what's yet to come.
AstraZeneca
Team achievements animation
An infographic newsletter that fosters openness and collaboration between marketing and sales teams internally, month after month.
Dematic
Infographic newsletter
To communicate our client's efforts in the digitalisation of their supply chain, we produced a collection of assets for their internal awareness campaign that exude energy and movement.
AstraZeneca
Internal awareness campaign assets
With this internal animation and associated brand elements we helped generate awareness of the importance of neurodiversity in the workplace.
AstraZeneca
Internal animation
Through insightful employee engagement ideas we helped SPXFLOW drive internal collaboration amongst a diverse global team.
SPXFLOW
Employee brand development
A PowerPoint template design and build that is clean, uncluttered and highly intuitive, making it easy for users to create engaging presentations that get the audience's buy-in.
AstraZeneca
PowerPoint template design
To help H&T Presspart inspire safety in their manufacturing environment, we produced a concise yet highly engaging Health & Safety video.
H&T Presspart
Workplace safety video
Thanks to our expertise in motion graphics and employee engagement initiatives, we produced an animation that helped AstraZeneca communicate the importance of doing the right thing.
AstraZeneca
Animated internal communications
How do you remind 16,000 employees across over 250 locations of the importance of GDPR? With an internal communications campaign that creates impact without shock, is colourful, fun and yet professional, and at all times focused on achieving compliance with zero exceptions.
Four Seasons Health Care
Internal communications campaign
Distinctive, original, fun, and impactful. An employee engagement logo design that is the perfect combination to help Four Seasons Health Care communicate to its staff the importance of complying with GDPR.
Four Seasons Health Care
Employee engagement logo design
With over 250 care homes nationwide, Four Seasons Health Care wanted to transmit the importance of complying with GDPR in a way that was effective, memorable, and fun.
Four Seasons Health Care
Employee engagement posters
As an experienced employee communications agency, we delivered an energy-fuelled conference video production that sets the tone for an AGM focused on celebrating achievements and embracing future goals.
Wolters Kluwer
Conference video production
To energise Statoil's senior leadership team to help them shape the company's future, we developed a distinctive internal communications branding that perfectly conveys a sense of progression and perspective.
Statoil
Internal communications branding
As part of the roll out of their five year business plan, Sage enlisted Parker Design to help create an eye catching suite of employee comms materials to grab the attention of its staff and get them engaged with the programme.
Sage
Employee comms materials
We were asked to develop a training collateral design for Sage's Accounts Division to help each employee understand the role they play in achieving the company's overall strategy.
Sage
Training materials design
'Out with the old, in with the new' – To encourage staff to fully embrace a new corporate-wide initiative, we produced a colourful employee engagement video animation that demonstrates the strength of timely change.
AstraZeneca
Employee engagement video animation
INEOS Inovyn needed to educate employees on the strength of its corporate values, and as part of a Europe-wide engagement campaign, they asked us to create a set of pull-up banners that would help transmit the essence and importance of each of those values.
INEOS Inovyn
Corporate culture roller banners
When your document contains a lot of information and you need the flexibility to update it frequently and cost efficiently, a simple corporate binder design is the perfect solution. And our print design specialists delivered just that.
United Utilities
Corporate binder design
We helped AstraZeneca celebrate the achievements of its global GMD division with a bold and dynamic awards collateral design that translates across borders.
AstraZeneca
Global awards collateral
We created a Prezi presentation design that immediately establishes a connection between the company values and the employees who make them a reality.
Four Seasons Health Care
Prezi presentation
Leading pharmaceutical and biologics company AstraZeneca asked Parker Design to develop an employee handbook design to share best practices across its global workforce. With years of print design behind us, the result was a durable piece with real visual appeal.
AstraZeneca
Employee handbook design
The effective combination of bright and colourful design with strong employee engagement ideas resulted in awards collateral that radiates brightness and positivity, and succeeds at inspiring everyone to get involved and recognise the efforts of those around them.
Four Seasons Health Care
Internal awards collateral design
To unite senior leaders around Statoil’s strategic vision, we designed a company newsletter that would motivate, engage and develop the most promising employees.
Statoil
Company newsletter
To instil a sense of unity, we successfully developed an employee engagement campaign that encouraged global teams to work together towards a common goal.
SPXFLOW
Employee engagement campaign
This Prezi presentation design helped AstraZeneca communicate the human impact of worksite accidents with the aim to reduce the number of health and safety incidents amongst employees worldwide.
AstraZeneca
Prezi presentation design
This internal newsletter proved an effective way of reaching and engaging a large audience regularly, thanks to clever use of colour and headlines that hook.
AstraZeneca
Internal newsletter design
We have worked closely with AstraZeneca for many years. This time we were asked to help them develop an ambitious employee communications campaign and branding that supported internal efforts to increase employee engagement, and upskill and develop leaders in the organisation.
AstraZeneca
Employer branding campaign
We delivered a training manual that ensures the effective development of healthcare staff, thanks to creative ideas that aid learning and on-going career progression.
Four Seasons Health Care
Training manual design
Having branded many of its support and maintenance facilities under the name 'Essentials', AstraZeneca asked Parker Design Consultants to create a newsletter design template which would allow them to communicate regular news and updates to the services.
AstraZeneca
Email newsletter template
To help activate various schemes our client was supporting, we were asked to refresh their employee communications. We devised a suite of employee engagement ideas full of energy and drive.
Four Seasons Health Care
Employee communication tools
AstraZeneca came to Parker Design to create a solution which would stand out and get noticed in employees' inboxes.
AstraZeneca
Corporate email newsletter
AstraZeneca
Page turn effect
As part of a wider internal communications campaign for United Utilities focused around the launch of a new government Traffic Management Act, Parker Design Consultants produced a roll-up banner design series.
United Utilities
Roll-up banner design
To help AstraZeneca employees keep up to date with the latest company news in the UK, Parker Design were asked to design a weekly email newsletter and build a set of HTML email templates so that the communications team could add their own content and send it to their mailing list.
AstraZeneca
HTML email templates
This H&S manual was designed to encourage business leaders to challenge safety issues rather than ignore them. Our print design team opted for an approachable down-to-earth tone, and the fresh brand colour scheme ensures it is clear and appealing.
United Utilities
Health and safety manual
This PDF presentation design provides essential information about AstraZeneca's key medicines, how they contribute to the success of the company, and work to combat a variety of diseases and help patients around the world.
AstraZeneca
PDF presentation design
"We don't want a traditional newsletter design, we want an employee magazine" – That was the graphic design brief AstraZeneca gave Parker Design following a review of their employee communications and internal communications channels.
AstraZeneca
Employee magazine design
As the 'go to' agency for HTML email newsletters, Parker Design were asked to design the overall look and feel, and continue to design and build each issue.
AstraZeneca
HTML email newsletters
AstraZeneca operates in an information-rich industry, and the organisation considers information to be the life-blood of the company. So the way imformation is found, sorted, used, stored and protected is vital to the success of the business.
AstraZeneca
Campaign branding
United Utilities had been working extensively on their business plan and asked our print design team to produce a corporate folder and inserts with a central pocket, to hold a number of data sheets to use as an employee communications pack.
United Utilities
Corporate folder and inserts
Engaging with employees regularly through the newsletter not only gives Robert's Bakery a clear channel to communicate important business direction and progress, it also allows them to maintain and promote their cherished family values with employee news.
Roberts Bakery
Employee engagement newsletter
When the IS department of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca asked us to design an interactive training environment in which they could demonstrate their ‘Lean Tools’ it was a challenge we couldn’t resist.
AstraZeneca
Modular training pod
We designed an employee newsletter that played a major part in increased employee engagement levels.
AstraZeneca
Employee e-newsletter design
Good employee communications lie at the heart of every successful organisation. This is something AstraZeneca understand and have worked closely with Parker Design on for many years to ensure its employee communications are engaging and informative, whether through print design or digital formats.
AstraZeneca
Internal communications guide
The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca implemented Microsoft SharePoint into their company systems and needed to educate their employees about the software with the use of SharePoint handbook design which formed part of their eLearning toolkit.
AstraZeneca
SharePoint handbook design
"Can you make it look sexy?" and "What do we want it to feel like?" – Two questions that helped us answer this brief with a strong staff newsletter design that changes perceptions.
AstraZeneca
Staff newsletter design
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