THE impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on employees highlighted the need for empathetic and compassionate leadership – and this includes ensuring a two-way conversation in terms of workplace decision-making, writes Edel Fitzgerald, associate partner at Reputation Inc. Asking your employees…

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TYING employee engagement (EE) to your company’s business performance starts with building your personal profile and credibility as an EE leader, a key enabler to ensure you have a voice at the table of your executive leadership, writes Christopher Wade.…

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MEDIA relations is the art and craft of persuading someone else, aka: "the media," to tell your story, thereby adding an extra level of credibility to the message that you want to convey to your target audiences, writes Kirk Hazlett. …

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MEDIA relations is about building and maintaining relationships with the press and knowing how and what they write about… it’s not about ‘schmoozing’ media, writes Lydia Hoye. It's about smart, value driven relationships that connect the right story to the…

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DIVISIVE attitudes to flexible and hybrid working are fundamentally undermining corporate culture. One recent survey revealed that while 87 per cent of workers feel they work as or more efficiently from home, 80 per cent of bosses disagree.  This is…

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VERY simply, constant and consistent communication is the key to maintaining a sense of “belonging” regardless of where one might actually be located, writes Kirk Hazlett. I vividly recall, as a young public affairs intern who had been given a…

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IN March 2020, when many of us packed up our offices and were plunged into remote working, internal communication was catapulted to a much higher position on the priority lists of companies, writes Siobhán Howe.  Suddenly, the internal communication specialists…

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WE all hope and no doubt aspire to be good bosses, nurturing teams so everyone is fulfilled, reaches their full potential and is proud to work for an organization that looks after its staff, writes Zaiba Malik.  A recent McKinsey…

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OVER the last twenty-plus years, organizations have been focused on finding a single "magic number" as the ultimate gauge of organizational health, writes Mike Klein. The two main candidates have been the "employee engagement (EE) score: or an "employee Net…

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THIS year’s pre-Davos period saw the usual flurry of analysis, with five major reports on trust and risk – totaling 280 pages – emerging between 11 and 18 January, writes Rod Cartwright, principal at Rod Cartwright Consulting, special advisor to CIPR’s…

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BUSINESSES globally have never been under such pressure, financially, politically and ethically. With stakeholders taking to social media and messaging platforms at the first hint of a problem, a business’ failure to respond quickly and effectively can rapidly exacerbate the…

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NOW that International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month are behind us, we reflect on gender equity and pause to think if we can see any visible, positive change, writes Grace Keeling, co-founder and comms growth partner, Made By Giants.…

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