10 Employee Newsletter Content Ideas to Boost Engagement

Looking to refresh your employee newsletter strategy? Struggling to come up with new content ideas each month?

Are you at a loss as to how to create more engaging newsletters in general? You’re not alone. Internal newsletters are one of the most powerful tools for reaching and engaging your workforce, whether they’re in HQ, working remotely, or on the frontlines. But keeping your newsletters fresh and compelling can be a challenge.

As with any communication channel, content is king. A well-crafted company newsletter can be the bridge between company strategy and employee action, building company culture and encouraging two-way communication. All you need is a simple list of idea categories you can draw from on a regular basis.

So, if your employee newsletter ideas are running dry, we’ll provide tried-and-true formats to inspire your next internal send. You might find some, or maybe even all of them, to be useful.

Here are 10 of the most effective newsletter content ideas to enhance your dispatches and get employees involved with company news. You can incorporate them to boost your own newsletters with engaging content.

1. Team or Employee Spotlights

Employees love to be recognized for a job well done, so shine a light on the people behind the work. Whether it’s a short interview, a “day in the life,” or a recognition story containing employee feedback, spotlighting internal talent boosts employee morale and builds a sense of community. It also helps connect and motivate employees across departments and geographies.

With Sociabble’s employee recognition features and customizable profile highlights, celebrating employee achievements with the entire company is just a few clicks away. You can draw on these employee recognition features for crafting your company newsletter ideas.

2. Success Stories or Completed Projects

Celebrate internal wins with storytelling and employee focused content. Highlighting successful initiatives not only gives recognition where it’s due, but also reinforces strategic priorities and best practices. The audience loves a good narrative, and this is your chance to show your company at its very best, and remind employees that they’re working for a great brand.

For example, you can use Sociabble’s campaign and pinning features to give visibility to these stories across all channels, from newsletters to mobile alerts. You have direct control over your content.

3. Practical Tips & Everyday Advice

Employees appreciate value-added content. Offer short, useful advice on wellness, productivity, internal tools, or working remotely—whatever is most relevant to your audience. Short, fun videos embedded within your digital employee newsletter can really boost employee morale along with employee engagement.

Sociabble’s AI Assistant can help you brainstorm and create these tips fast, based on your company’s voice and employee needs. Also Sociabble’s video features allow you to create instructional videos with ease.

4. Leadership Messages

Direct communication from leadership builds trust and transparency, not to mention a sense of community. Whether it’s a short message, a leadership video, or a podcast, let employees hear directly from those shaping the company’s mission and its future. Make sure they’re relevant for your entire workforce, and take language and geographic factors into consideration.

With Sociabble, leadership can easily create video messages, which can then be translated, subtitled, and even lip-synced for global consistency and inclusivity, in real-time. So a CEO can give a short welcome speech in English, and an office in Paris can watch it delivered in French. Amazing, no?

5. Key Updates on Ongoing Projects

Internal transparency drives alignment. Keep team members in the loop with digestible updates on cross-functional projects, milestones, or change initiatives. This is especially important during transformative periods, or even crisis management. Employees appreciate that kind of directness from leadership, and they perform better when they’re all on the same page.

Sociabble’s “Must Read” feature ensures the right updates reach the right teams, with no algorithm gatekeeping. If you have an update you need to keep top of mind, it’s easy, because you have complete control over your newsfeed. And you can reinforce it by including it in the company news.

6. Upcoming Internal Events Calendar

From trainings to team-building events, keeping a calendar in your company newsletter boosts participation. A simple list with links or RSVP buttons goes a long way, and it will also get employees excited about what lies ahead. Your company newsletter is a great tool for giving information and building suspense for future company events.

Sociabble’s event tools integrate with your calendar and can send reminders via email, push notification, or chat platforms like Teams. You can integrate RSVP buttons and links into your newsletters for a simple user experience.

7. Employee-Generated Content

Let employees be co-creators. Encourage employees to share personal stories, photos, shout-outs, or even favorite books and playlists. It’s great for company culture and company values, and it generates authenticity. You can even add a competitive element to it, by creating a space for the best employee content submissions and ideas.

With Sociabble’s content features, content creation is made easy for employees, and content moderation is streamlined with built-in AI scoring to maintain your brand voice and community standards. So employees have the freedom to create and contribute to your newsletter, with appropriate safeguards in place.

8. Quizzes or Interactive Mini-Games

Everyone loves a puzzle or a game, so add a playful twist to your company newsletter. Include a quick quiz, poll, or brain teaser to increase employee engagement and keep your content fresh. If you can link it to the company, with brand or employee trivia, even better. Your workforce will get involved!

A few game-based employee newsletter ideas include:

Trivia about company history
A multiple-choice quiz around sales and performance numbers
A poll to make choices about afterwork options, office layout, or holiday party spots
A fun puzzle including branded company images or company culture references
A quiz about new employees or employee interests

Gamification is baked into Sociabble’s engagement features, with points, leaderboards, and even tree-planting rewards that make interaction meaningful. Having a designated employee newsletter section devoted to a puzzle, quiz, or poll will give both new employees and old a reason to click and something to look forward to.

9. Career Opportunities & Internal Mobility

Show your team members they can grow. Share internal job openings and spotlight career paths within the company as part of your newsletter. It can encourage employees in regards to retention and internal movement, while also showcasing how your company is growing and evolving as an organization.

For example, Sociabble allows personalized targeting so employees see only the roles relevant to their skillset or department. This can be incorporated into dynamic employee newsletters as well.

10. Recommended Articles or External Content

Curate TED Talks, industry and company news, or inspiring reads that help employees expand their thinking. It’s a subtle but powerful way to build a learning culture. Outside sources supply the extra spice that makes for interesting and engaging reading. Plus, it’s a great way to keep your workforce up to speed on what’s happening with your sector or industry.

With Sociabble’s external content curation, coupled with its dynamic content features, you can automate and personalize content feeds for all team members, and create a personalized employee newsletter for individuals, offices, or departments.

Bonus Tip: Vary Your Formats!

As you’ve probably noticed from this article: variety is key! Variety of content, but also, and above all, variety of formats. Current technologies give you tremendous freedom, so take advantage of that. Text, infographics, video, audio, GIFs, carousels, quizzes, etc. The right mix will increase employee engagement and buy-in for your internal newsletter.

Since form is also just as important as content in internal communications, the layout of information alone accounts for a huge part of your engagement results. Take inspiration from social media trends to offer content that’s increasingly in line with your employees’ expectations. Take a look online and see what’s working to come up with better employee newsletter ideas.

By analyzing your key indicators, you’ll see that varied content formats improve the overall performance of your company newsletter. Thanks to its customizable dashboard, Sociabble allows you to track employee engagement statistics for your employee communications: open rate, click rate, share rate, quiz response rate, video read and completion rate, etc. This data will allow you to adjust the content in order to further improve your internal newsletter, its targeting and its distribution.

Conclusion: Effective Newsletters Are Within Your Grasp

If you normally struggle with creating this kind of content, this list of internal newsletter ideas and best practices will inspire you to be creative with your next company newsletter. As we’ve seen, these categories include:

Employee Spotlight
Success Stories
Practical Tips
Leadership Team Messaging
Key Updates
Upcoming Events
Employee Generated Content
Quizzes & Games
Career Opportunities
Recommended Articles & External Content

And if you need additional resources, as we’ve hinted at above, Sociabble can help. Our platform’s newsletter engine is designed to make creating and sending newsletters easy, with built-in templates and dynamic content options at your fingertips. We’ve already partnered with global leaders like Coca-Cola CCEP, L’Occitane en Provence, and Primark to optimize their internal comms, and we’d love to discuss ways we can help your company, too.

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