You wouldn’t face a criminal hearing without legal advice, so why face a public hearing without professional help in communication? It’s stressful enough to face a Royal Commission or a Senate Estimates hearing, or any government inquiry for that matter. On top of that, you’re usually being live-streamed outside the hearing room, and the news […]
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Will This Crisis Actually Pass? How Do I Minimise Any Reputation Damage?
Your Strategic Planning Guide For Being Fully Prepared For Any Crisis Many companies routinely ask me how they can prepare properly to communicate when – not if – a crisis happens. While we can be quite optimistic, the realist in us all knows from experience there will always be something that happens. The question is, […]
How Would Your Leadership Team Respond To A School Crisis?
Critical incidents and other crises are always just one sudden step away in schools. Test your team response in a realistic crisis communication simulation, designed to prepare your team for any situation. In the event of a crisis, would your school leadership team know how to respond? Would they know what to say – and […]
In communications, complexity breeds confusion
How can Facebook and the White House, organisations with unmatched resources, power and influence, make such a meal of their communications? You are going to be enormously scrutinised when you rule the world. But Mark Zuckerberg, who runs the biggest content platform on the planet, and Donald J Trump, who holds the most powerful office, […]
Want to train your staff to speak for success in media or to stakeholders? No training budget or time? Try eLearning.
The advantages of media and presentation skills training are plentiful. But we know there are hurdles to gathering a whole team of employees in one place at one time for training. 1. Your people are time poor 2. Your people are geographically dispersed 3. The budget just doesn’t stretch far enough to train everyone face […]
CEO videos prove most effective form of communication – do you have the camera skills?
It might seem easy to create, but there are certain skills required to make an effective online CEO video message. Whether you like it or not, people make judgements very quickly about the quality of your offering based on how you come across on camera. Viewers don’t want to watch a corporate talking head, they […]