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Why Training Your Employees on Personal Branding is Good PR

Marketwired

In most cases, companies and brands don’t understand that building the brand of their employees is just as important as building the brand of the company itself. In 2016, social media has been a key tool to building an effective and vibrant global personal brand. Let’s flash back a bit, though.

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8 Surprising Reasons To Raise Your Internal Communications Game

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

In certain cases, high-profile companies take it for granted that employees are corporate cheerleaders, or they may leave the responsibility for employee engagement to HR. Yet employee communications is correlated with business success. Here are some additional reasons for a company of any size to raise its employee comms game.

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Gamification Delivers Results

5W PR

In his October 9, 2016 blog about the Baltimore Ravens fourth-quarter loss to the Washington Redskins, former NFL player Dan Birdwell threw in this quote: “You have to play this game just like somebody just hit your mother with a two by four.”. It was viewed as a novel way to keep score and get more frequent feedback from employees.

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8 tips for health care organizations to foster better communication in 2016

Reputation Us

Article originally published in the Portland Business Journal on January 5, 2016. Stats, facts and guesses abound about the top health care trends in 2016. However, the 2016 consumer will want to engage more with docs, not just apps. Casey Boggs is president of Portland-based LT Public Relations.

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Beyond Boundaries: Empowering Women in Non-Traditional Industries

PR for Anyone

After multiple attempts, Robiar finally conquered the rigorous licensing exam in 2016, marking a significant pivot from corporate life to becoming an entrepreneur in the pest control industry. A Family Affair Initially, Robiar’s dad was a technician who trained others but never launched his own company.

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Building Your Communications Career from the Ground Up: 5 Ways to Make Any Job Work for You

Deirdre Breakenridge

With mounting debt (the average student in the Class of 2016 has $37,172 in student loans) many graduates need to take whatever employment opportunities are immediately available to them. Some employers offer professional development opportunities, whether it be workshops and trainings or subsidies for continuing education courses.

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Another Reason for Business to Avoid Politics: People are Sick of Politics

Sword and the Script

So, I dug into my own pocket, rented a panel on SurveyMonkey ($$$), and used my training in research methods to develop my own survey of Americans. This share has risen 18 percentage points since the Center first asked this question in the summer leading up to the 2016 presidential contest and 9 points just in the past year.”

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