Internal communications agency

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.

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.

We helped AstraZeneca communicate the importance of digitisation with a stunning animation that focuses on the medical research benefits brought by embracing new technologies.

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.

Communicating the contributions of different teams is vital to the success of any organisation. For global businesses, this becomes even more challenging, with teams operating across multiple regions and time zones, often within complex structures.

The employee engagement video we produced is a “Day in the Life” piece of internal communications that engages from the start.

An internal branding design concept that links four corporate values and transmits the idea of every employee working together as one.

An engaging global employee onboarding pack that successfully presents AstraZeneca as a Great Place to Work.

We created an interactive employee magazine that feels personal, with that interactivity playing a major role in giving employees a sense of ownership.

Inspired by the concepts of connection, unity and progression, this company culture rebrand exercise helped align and unify thousands of employees across Europe under a new vision, strategy and core behaviours.

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.

An infographic newsletter that fosters openness and collaboration between marketing and sales teams internally, month after month.

An internal animated video that relies on simplicity to become a memorable employee communications piece.

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.

With this internal animation and associated brand elements we helped generate awareness of the importance of neurodiversity in the workplace.

This uncomplicated and easily digestible employee video newsletter succeeded at informing and keeping 3,600+ staff engaged every month.

Through insightful employee engagement ideas we helped SPXFLOW drive internal collaboration amongst a diverse global team.

Going beyond just communicating a new initiative, we developed an explainer animation that acts as a highly engaging employee engagement tool.

To help H&T Presspart inspire safety in their manufacturing environment, we produced a concise yet highly engaging Health & Safety video.

We focus on content creation that connects with audiences in a personal way. Our animation production team created a fun and memorable series of motion graphics to help AstraZeneca’s internal communications team make their global onboarding programme more engaging.

We developed a set of bespoke, easy to digest, brand guidelines to be used internally, always keeping our client’s specific budget in mind.

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.

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.

Parker Design’s content creation and motion graphics team excel at developing employee communications that connect with audiences. We created an effective and visually engaging animation that encourages staff to help the company reduce travel costs.

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.

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.

We are the branding agency that helped position Invosys as a disruptor in the telecoms industry by developing a “revolutionary” brand refresh that also succeeded as a powerful employee engagement and employee communications initiative.

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.

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.

As an award-winning experiential agency, we can do amazing things with a blank wall. To help AstraZeneca celebrate their past and inspire future generations of scientists, we developed this attractive corporate interior design to celebrate their achievements.

We produced a clever and impactful workspace design solution that helped increase employee engagement by highlighting individuals and the contributions they make towards Sage’s success.

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.

As part of AstraZeneca’s Annual GMD Awards programme, we provided support in a wide range of global conference management areas, including a striking branding solution and awards collateral, and an engaging award management app – all effective tools that raised employee engagement levels.

‘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.

Our roadshow collateral design facilitated the client’s transition of employees to their new company headquarters.

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.

To help INEOS Inovyn communicate the company’s core values to employees in the UK and 6 other European locations, we designed a set of multilingual corporate culture posters that immediately engage and inspire a sense of unity and common purpose across a global workforce.

We helped AstraZeneca celebrate the achievements of its global GMD division with a bold and dynamic awards collateral design that translates across borders.

How do you create an internal communications video that will be effective across a global workforce? This was the challenge AstraZeneca brought to our content creation and video production teams, following a shift in the company’s corporate strategy.

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.

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.

To unite senior leaders around Statoil’s strategic vision, we designed a company newsletter that would motivate, engage and develop the most promising employees.

To instil a sense of unity, we successfully developed an employee engagement campaign that encouraged global teams to work together towards a common goal.

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.

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.

We provided a powerful training tool for Thomson Reuters, creating an engaging presentation design that effectively introduced their latest financial product to international sales teams.

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.

Our content team developed an internal communications animation that helped bring global teams together working towards a common goal.

An email newsletter that engaged staff to drive productivity thanks to clever and effective design and employee engagement ideas.

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.

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.

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.

AstraZeneca came to Parker Design to create a solution which would stand out and get noticed in employees’ inboxes.

The University of Cambridge asked us to develop informative and eye-catching e-newsletter design that various departments could use to encourage alumni support and involvement.

We are an experiential agency that knows how to use design to inspire creativity and innovation. To help our client push employee engagement and encourage a “think big” culture we created an inspirational office interior design in the clouds, complete with a larger than life ‘Land of the Giants’.

We delivered a page turn effect that offered a great reader experience.

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.

We designed an internal briefing document far removed from the norm.

We delivered a bright, refreshing look for NICE’s employee newsletters.

To mark the retirement of AstraZeneca’s outgoing CEO, our client asked our graphic design team to produce a one-off book design to be presented to him at his leaving ceremony, celebrating his time at the company. The stunning print design and quality of the book matched the occasion perfectly.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

We designed an employee newsletter that played a major part in increased employee engagement levels.

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.

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.

“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.