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Leading Healthy Teams: Lessons from Leadercast 2019 for Solo PR Pros

Solo PR Pro

The Leadercast speakers tailored their talks to 2019’s theme, Leading Healthy Teams, providing actionable information that applies to those of us with teams of one and beyond. Start with your employees, giving them the level of information and training to act like owners and they will take care of your customers and your shareholders.

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Your Attention Is Your Superpower. Learn How To Get It Back

Stern + Associates

Finding Meaning in Work to Reclaim Stolen Focus In “Stolen Focus,” Hari, a gifted storyteller, describes his journey around the world, interviewing leading experts on attention and focus – and the surprising explanations he discovered. “I He returned to the TED stage in 2019 with a gripping presentation on anxiety and depression.

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Diversity training for brands is no longer a “nice to have,” it’s crucial

NewsWhip

To recap, in 2019, both Gucci and Prada were in hot water for designs that evoked blackface. Engagements to major racially-charged crises in 2019. The first six months of 2019 saw Gucci, Katy Perry, and Prada brush with blackface in their designs, and just in time for Black History Month, Adidas served up an all-white shoe.

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Conference Recap: Microsoft’s Frank X. Shaw on Thriving in the Next Communications Age

PRSay

Shaw, corporate vice president of communications at Microsoft, during the lunchtime keynote session Monday at the 2019 PRSA International Conference in San Diego. And that opportunity comes in the form of storytelling, diplomacy and truth, he said. Storytelling. “In How are they consumed and by who? Synthesize the complex.

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What is PR? 141 PR and Comms Pros Explain What They Do for a Living

Sword and the Script

For example, the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey posed this question to 223 PR and communications pros…and we received a wide variety of answers from respondents. 1) “Make sure that employees, customers and the market understand our company, its services and goals.”. 22) “I am a storyteller and I look out for people.”.

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Wake of the Pandemic: Businesses Value the Role of PR and Communications More than Ever [Survey]

Sword and the Script

When asked about specific functions, respondents overwhelmingly said employee communications (93%) grew in importance compared to pre-pandemic times. Blog: What Does “Storytelling” Mean to You? 2019 JOTW Communications Survey. Presentation: The 2019 JOTW Communications Survey. Blog: Code of PR Ethics?

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

Year of the employee. 2022 is going to be known as the year of the employee. Brad Marley , Chief Storyteller, Yelram Media . Qualified employees are scarce, and companies recognize that they need to be seen as great places to work and thrive as well as strong brands. PR grows more in demand.

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