What state is the PR profession in?

What state is the PR profession in? This week I read through a report that the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has just published on exactly that – “The Annual State of the PR Profession”. I think it was a mixed bag of results and it was good to have insight into board level representation [...]

Take two meerkats into the shower?

Tonight I went to Hill & Knowlton’s offices in Soho Square for the latest in a line of free events from the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA). This was the first time I’d been in touch with the PRCA and I know they have in-house teams as part of their membership. I hoped they wouldn’t [...]

The top five things communicators talk about

I’ve just returned from the Communication Directors’ Forum on board Arcadia and had an extremely productive few days. I met lots of interesting communications and PR professionals from a whole range of industries from charity to transport, retail to healthcare. What struck me were the commonalities between us all regardless of our sectors and types [...]

IoIC, easy as 1-2-3?

Last week the British Association of Communicators in Business (CiB) formally became the Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC). The organisation says it aims to champion better communication between employers and employees and wants to “improve business success and profitability through enhanced communication within organisations.”

I think it’s a smart move to have a dedicated association, particularly [...]

Internal communications – the future

Next week Communicators in Business (CiB) will formally become the Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC). As professional communicators look to the future, I was in touch with Sarah, my mentee, today and recommended she reads a book I came across last year while studying. It’s called Effective Internal Communication (PR in practice) by Lyn Smith [...]

Tipping point for comms professionals

Thank you again to everyone who submitted their top tips to be included in my presentation for internal comms professionals. I had the pleasure of meeting the current group of students working towards the post-grad diploma in Internal Communications Management at Kingston Uni/Capita Learning & Development today. Alongside Geoff Timblick @GeoffTinUK from Vodafone (and ex-classmate [...]

What’s your top tip for Internal Communications students?

I’m currently preparing my thoughts as I’ve been asked to speak with the students studying for Kingston Uni’s year long post-graduate diploma in Internal Communications Management.

Regular readers will know this is the course I graduated from in January, and I’m looking forward to returning to the classroom to meet the current group of Internal Communications [...]

90 minutes that changed your mind?

According to the news, political history was made tonight due to the live TV debate. I found it fascinating, not just hearing what Brown, Cameron and Clegg were saying and studying their body language, tone of voice etc but also for the comments via Twitter.

Reading the constant stream of comments was intriguing and very often [...]

Tweeting on both sides

We all recognise the importance of meeting people face-to-face and last week I had the opportunity to do just that with lots of people I’m connected to via Twitter. I was invited to attend what was billed as “the first UK HR Tweet Up” (#ConnectingHR), an event organised by Courtenay HR and advertised via [...]

Real resilience in tough times

This morning I went to a Communications Cafe breakfast event hosted by Sequel Group, at the Soho hotel in London. Also known as an aspic seminar, it gathered comms professionals to discuss Real resilience in tough times and the ability to adapt to change.

Winston Churchill’s down-to-earth advice for those facing difficulty was: “If you’re going [...]