We help organisations attract, engage and evolve through empowering stories and interactive video content. Every employee wants to feel that their role has significance. Let’s explore how storytelling can help.
Storytelling for Connection and Belonging
Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools for creating an emotional connection/re-connection. By sharing stories and capturing the personalities of your team on film, we promote a sense of purpose and pride that improves mental wellbeing, while decreasing staff turnover & absenteeism (sickness/burnout).
In today’s work environment, supporting employee wellbeing isn’t just good practice—it’s essential for building a positive, productive culture. When employees feel connected, valued, and inspired, they’re more motivated, resilient, and aligned with your organisation’s goals.
At Fluent Media, we specialise in helping companies engage and evolve through powerful, narrative-driven content and immersive experiences.
Applications:
Personal Story Sharing: Give employees a platform to share their unique journeys, values, and achievements.
Leadership Stories: Engaging leadership related content that speaks directly to employees, promoting transparency and trust.
Value-Based Narratives: Story-driven content that reflects company values, mission, and cultural aspirations.
This internal communications project for Yelp involved crafting and recording 20 individual stories, each aligned with one of their 5 core values:
The overall goal was to foster a stronger sense of community and alignment, highlighting how these values manifest in everyday life at Yelp. By showcasing these stories, Yelp reinforces its commitment to these guiding principles, encouraging a sense of shared purpose and collaboration across different teams.
Our approach helped employees connect more deeply with the company’s culture and mission. Many of the storytellers featured here represent support/special interest groups from across the business, such as women, mothers and specific religious groups.
During the post production process we added photographs and video clips to make the narratives more engaging.
Objective: Understanding your organisation’s goals related to employee engagement, culture and internal communication is a prerequisite to delivering a content plan designed to bring your unique narratives to life.
Fluent Media Approach: We collaborate with leadership teams to craft a clear, fluent narrative around your company’s mission, values and objectives. This strategy serves as a foundation for future content to be created, ensuring consistency and alignment across each stage of your ELC.
Objective: Understanding what the next generation are looking for as they enter the workforce/your industry. Create and promote content that builds brand awareness to appeal to talented candidates, aligned with your company’s culture and values.
Fluent Media Approach: Communicate the benefits of working within your organisation through storytelling. Content highlights values, employee experiences, and growth opportunities to attract like-minded candidates.
Objective: Engage and inspire candidates during the recruitment and interview process; promote your organisation as a desirable place to work; positively impact your reputation.
Fluent Media Approach: We create authentic, engaging content for HR teams and recruitment agencies, that gives potential employees a glimpse into what it’s like to work at your company, building excitement and confidence in their decision to join.
Objective: Ensure new employees feel welcomed, supported and integrated into the culture.
Fluent Media Approach: We develop narrative-based onboarding content that communicates cultural expectations and values, drawing attention to support systems and specific individuals within your organisation. By weaving in the organisation’s story with personal stories from individual employees, we make the onboarding process smooth, relatable and impactful.
Objective: Foster continuous learning, personal growth, and career development.
Fluent Media Approach: Stories can be many times more powerful and memorable than slides or dry, mandatory training. We produce interactive, narrative-driven training modules tailored to each organisation’s values, helping employees build new skills and align with company goals.
Objective: Keep employees engaged, motivated and committed to your company; increase staff retention.
Fluent Media Approach: Financial bonuses, although welcome, can be perceived as generic and impersonal. By celebrating employee achievements, allowing them to feel heard and valued, we create content that strengthens engagement and morale. Promoting a sense of community, highlighting personal contributions can help employees feel more loyal to your organisation or aligned with your vision/mission.
Objective: Encourage and recognise best practice and high performance, aligning individual contributions with your organisational goals. Help employees feel connected to internal audiences as well as external stakeholders.
Fluent Media Approach: We craft content that celebrates success and achievement, illustrating how individual efforts contribute and make a difference. Stories can be captured to document success, showcase inspiring work while motivating others.
Objective: Leave a positive, lasting impression and maintain connections with former employees.
Fluent Media Approach: Listening and empathy are important leadership skills which can positively affect staff retention. Personal stories of why an employee chose to leave could provide valuable feedback for you and your team. We create and capture content that celebrates employees and makes them feel valued for their contribution, for example, as part of alumni engagement programs.
In order to stand out and connect with potential candidates at a deeper level, storytelling is essential for recruitment marketing as it helps to build trust and credibility. Stories are the best way to capture attention, differentiate your company from the competition, and ultimately drive great-fit candidates to apply and convert.
By taking a longer term, episodic, narrative driven approach to video production, your content becomes a strategic tool to weave an ongoing dialogue, connecting employees with organisational objectives around well-being, engagement, and shared values. It may also include a commitment to fair practices, mental health, legal compliance, health and safety.
If your employees are not engaged or motivated by the work they do, they’re unlikely to go above and beyond for your customers and clients. When employees are fully engaged, exceptional customer service becomes the norm. Interactive overlays foster a stronger emotional connection, turning concepts about well-being and engagement into relatable experiences.
Our mission is to make how you communicate so fluent—smooth, graceful, and effortless— it positively impacts every area of your business.