strategic communications group employee engagement

Citibank®

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Chairman's Leadership Conference

    Challenge

  • Create fun, motivational creative pieces for top performing employees who are invited to this annual meeting
  • Solution

  • High-level creative that mirrored the conference goals and got employees recognized even before the event began
  • Design the additional creative to showcase senior management support for the event – Pearls and Winning books were given to each participant and reordered after the meetings because of their outstanding reception
  • Giveaways and daily room drops that motivated participants and created a long-term benefit from the meeting

Citibank® Gold Medal Challenge

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Gold Medal Challenge 2008

    Challenge

  • Create a conference awareness piece that was global in delivery and concept for Corporate Challenge winners who were invited to the Beijing Olympics as part of their recognition
  • Solution

  • Olympic- themed invitations and awards that reflected the globality of all participants and leveraged the Olympics Village concept
  • Deliver in Beijing at the Olympic games
  • Results

  • Motivational pieces for the participants received bank-wide acclaim

Citi Cards® Citi Simplicity Card

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Milestone Moments RoadShow

    Challenge

  • Introduce the Citi SimplicitySM Card to Citi Cards employees in the U.S., Canada and India.
  • Making customer service people aware of card's features and benefits
  • Solution

  • Create a traveling museum, "Milestone Moments: Innovations That Have Made Our Lives Easier"
  • Exhibit of the Citi Simplicity Card;
    • key feature, "Press "O" to speak to a live person," was represented by a special 7-foot phone with an active "O" button that participants could press to have their questions answered.
  • Results

  • Employee participation at all sites was extremely high.
  • Feedback from employees at events demonstrated satisfaction and enjoyment

Citi Cards®

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Citi® Stars

    Challenge

  • Foster employee understanding and belief in the importance to the organization of recognizing the best and the brightest
  • Streamline administration and reduce operating costs
  • Solution

  • Developed an updated program identity
  • Created a communications strategy that reinforced the value of nominating others
  • Results

  • Improved program perception as demonstrated by increased nominations
  • Decreased cost and reduced program administration burden

Citi Cards® Route 2 Success

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Citi® Sales and Retention

    Challenge

  • Use strategic repositioning to deliver sales results for the organization
  • Solution

  • Created rewards and recognition program reinforcing behaviors that drive change
  • Full-scale communications program
  • 3-Year Results

  • Culture transformed
  • Sales increased
  • Attrition rate reduced

Citi® ThankYou Rewards

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Rewards U

    Challenge

  • Reinforce training and motivate ThankYou Agents to bring the ThankYou Network brand to life for Members
  • Solution

  • An online university that is fun and easy to enroll in and graduate from that gives employees the info they need to handle customer calls
  • Tie the university to Citi's LMS and SCORM environment
  • Results

  • Employees enjoyed the university
  • ThankYou Network information was reinforced; customer satisfaction increased
  • 2009 expansion of Rewards U to Citi Cards Sales Associates and Retail Associates in 2009

Citi Cards® Wave of Success

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Citi® NAO&T Collections

    Challenge

  • Collectors requested a rewards and recognition program to recognize performance.
  • Solution

  • Developed rewards and recognition program that complemented incentive pay program and drove performance.
  • Results

  • Adoptions of Wave of Success program that reinforced the Collections Business Model and leveraged best practices of other successful Citi programs.
  • Delivered tools to support managers in communicating program benefits.

MasterCard®

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Brand Value Positioning

    Challenge

  • Create onsite meetings that align Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) and their managers behind the new MasterCard brand positioning
  • Solution

  • Meetings-in-a-box for site meetings
  • Train-the-Trainer meetings
  • Results

  • CSRs had 70% increase in awareness of MasterCard benefits
  • 84% of CSRs rated the information provided "useful" for servicing customers