Driving Employee Engagement with a Modern Intranet

Employee engagement is essential for any organization—but building it across hybrid and distributed teams is a challenge. This practical guide shows how to use a modern intranet as your internal communication platform to connect, empower, and recognize employees in meaningful ways, every day.

Download this free guide to explore 16 real-world examples of how intranet features can strengthen connection, feedback, recognition, collaboration, and alignment—while improving intranet adoption and employee satisfaction. 

Download the document and learn how to:

✔ Foster two-way communication through news targeting, polls, and mobile updates.

✔ Celebrate employees with social recognition, milestones, and community features.

✔ Enable knowledge sharing and collaboration with the right tools and access.

✔ Deliver a personalized intranet experience based on roles and needs.

✔ Track and improve engagement using built-in analytics and feedback loops.

Whether you’re in Internal Communications, HR, or IT, this guide will help you apply best practices for employee engagement—using tools you already have.

Your intranet should do more than share news. It should bring your values to life, help teams stay aligned, and empower every employee—wherever they work.

✔ Engaged Employees: Keep people informed, included, and recognized.

✔ Connected Teams: Strengthen relationships across roles, regions, and channels.

✔ Adopted Platforms: Build an intranet that adds daily value for every user.

The examples in this guide are designed to work in Microsoft 365-based environments and are easy to tailor to your organization’s needs.

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The most effective intranet strategies prioritize relevance, peer connection, continuous improvement, and active feedback. Use content targeting, communities, recognition tools, and engagement analytics to foster an inclusive and empowering environment.

An internal communication platform like a modern intranet enables targeted news, video updates, alerts, newsletters, and feedback tools. When optimized for reach and relevance, these features help employees feel informed, valued, and connected.

Support engagement by creating spaces for recognition, collaboration, and contribution. Use features like social feeds, praise widgets, communities, surveys, and dashboards to promote interaction, feedback, and purpose-driven communication.

Engaging platforms prioritize user experience, personalization, and access. Look for features like audience targeting, two-way communication, Microsoft 365 integration, mobile support, and real-time updates to meet employees where they are.

Clear, consistent communication aligned with business goals helps reinforce culture, purpose, and direction. When engagement goals shape your intranet content and features, you build stronger motivation and more meaningful employee experiences.