Internal Comms

---
name: internal-comms
description: Create professional internal communications including memos, announcements,
  newsletters, and company updates. Use for employee communications, policy announcements,
  team updates, and organizational messaging.
type: reference
version: 2.0.0
category: business
last_updated: 2026-01-02
related_skills:
- doc-coauthoring
- brand-guidelines
- slack-gif-creator
capabilities: []
requires: []
tags: []
scripts_exempt: true
---

# Internal Comms

## Overview

This skill guides creation of professional internal communications that effectively inform, engage, and align employees with organizational goals and updates.

## When to Use

- Announcing company-wide policy changes
- Creating team newsletters and updates
- Writing executive communications
- Drafting crisis communications
- Sending policy memos
- Any employee-facing messaging

## Quick Start

1. **Identify communication type** (announcement, newsletter, memo, executive, crisis)
2. **Select appropriate tone** (professional, warm, formal, calm)
3. **Use template structure** for the type
4. **Lead with important information** (inverted pyramid)
5. **Include clear next steps** or call to action

```markdown
Subject: [Action]: [Topic] Effective [Date]

Hi team,

[One sentence summary of what's changing]

**Key Details:**
- [Detail 1]
- [Detail 2]
- [Detail 3]

**Timeline:** [When this takes effect]

**Action Needed:** [What people need to do]

Questions? [Contact info]

Thanks,
[Name]
```

## Related Skills

- [doc-coauthoring](../doc-coauthoring/SKILL.md) - Collaborative editing
- [brand-guidelines](../brand-guidelines/SKILL.md) - Brand voice consistency
- [slack-gif-creator](../slack-gif-creator/SKILL.md) - Celebration GIFs

---

## Version History

- **2.0.0** (2026-01-02): Upgraded to v2 template - added Quick Start, When to Use, Execution Checklist, Error Handling, Metrics sections
- **1.0.0** (2024-10-15): Initial release with announcement, newsletter, memo, executive, and crisis communication templates

## Sub-Skills

- [1. Company-Wide Announcements (+1)](1-company-wide-announcements/SKILL.md)
- [Highlights This Week/Month](highlights-this-weekmonth/SKILL.md)
- [In Progress](in-progress/SKILL.md)
- [Upcoming](upcoming/SKILL.md)
- [Team Spotlight](team-spotlight/SKILL.md)
- [3. Policy Memos (+2)](3-policy-memos/SKILL.md)
- [Tone by Communication Type (+2)](tone-by-communication-type/SKILL.md)
- [Quick Announcement Template (+1)](quick-announcement-template/SKILL.md)
- [Wins](wins/SKILL.md)
- [Metrics](metrics/SKILL.md)
- [In Progress](in-progress/SKILL.md)
- [Coming Up](coming-up/SKILL.md)
- [FYI](fyi/SKILL.md)
- [Channel Selection (+1)](channel-selection/SKILL.md)
- [Execution Checklist](execution-checklist/SKILL.md)
- [Common Issues](common-issues/SKILL.md)
- [Metrics](metrics/SKILL.md)