PRSay

AUGUST 30, 2022

And when told they’ll lose their jobs, employees are just as shocked today. Still, when layoffs become necessary, there’s a lot that employers can do to mitigate the pain and difficulty that employees experience. Garg came to represent accusations that corporations treat employees as expendable units.

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Employee Real Estate Video Internal 86

PRSay

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Communicators have “a lot of great partners out there” who can help provide their employees with local voting information, said panelist Kelly Mason, director of corporate communications at Levi Strauss & Co., which is one of many companies giving employees time off to vote.

Communications 201

Communications Nonprofit Employee Local 201

Melissa Agnes

APRIL 11, 2016

True crisis preparedness requires more than a plan, it requires the right corporate culture. Part of ensuring the right corporate culture means adapting the right mindset. How to change a silo’d corporate culture. Conduct team building exercises that are cross-departmental. Good luck and have fun!

Crisis 100

Crisis Crisis Management Exercises Corporate 100

PR for Anyone

JUNE 12, 2020

A great exercise is to just sit down and lay this out. If you have a team, employees, or advisory board, work on this with them so you all are on the same page as to your message, your beliefs, and your core values. The majority of us are not in business solely to make money. There is a reason we do what we do.

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Exercises Employee Corporate Internal 130

Onclusive

JANUARY 31, 2018

Cunningham described the fundamentals of creating positioning: “The first thing we do in a positioning exercise is to split those two things up and do the rational positioning first. The branding agency goes off and comes back with something really creative, but it is disconnected from your customers, your board and your employees.

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Content Marketing Marketing Exercises Employee 191

Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Simulate everything from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram (and any other social media channel needed for your team’s exercise), to the search engines, as well as major news sites and blogs. by creating press releases, posting to your corporate website, blog or dark site , etc.).

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Crisis Crisis Management Engineering Exercises 222

Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 26, 2023

Build the foundation for a successful thought leadership program with some familiar strategic exercises: Define your target audience. Develop thought leadership content based on topics that interest your buyer personas, investors, or potential employees. Ask for ideas from other employees or even your freelance team.

Leadership 126

Leadership Content Marketing Healthcare Google 126

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Here’s an exercise for a startup: take the brand name and corporate information out of your press release or media pitch. A compelling set of opinions or observations can make a brand memorable and relevant for nearly any audience – employees, prospects, VCs, and press. No differentiation. A client-agency mismatch.

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Agency Pitching Internal International 205

PRSay

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

This era in the workplace was just before Harvard Business Review popularized the “service-profit chain,” a concept that recognizes causal relationships between employee satisfaction, customer loyalty, and business profitability and growth. Porter Novelli is not the largest global agency in terms of financial or employee size.

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Financial Employee Leadership Training 141

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 2, 2018

In fact, most C-Level executives do as well , according to a study by NetLine Corporation and MarketingSherpa: “C-level executives at companies with at least 5,000 employees used their personal email 51% of the time, with business emails used the remaining 49%. Can your agency bring big ideas and execute? Give our services a try.

eBook 71

eBook Exercises Employee SEO 71

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 28, 2017

While Uber has struggled with reputation setbacks, culminating in the resignation of its CEO last week, Lyft has quietly kept to itself, plotting a successful path as the “friendly, laid-back alternative to Uber’s cutthroat corporate ethos.” We recommend creating a storybank of your own.

Airlines 147

Airlines Insurance Insurance Viral 147

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 25, 2020

Employees just went through the motions and punched out at 5 p.m. In an ensuing training exercise, and in the absence of access to higher-level leaders, I launched rotary-wing attack aviation in response to an enemy incident. The process was painful. The team had long since stopped caring. And why should they? Give our services a try.

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Marketing Guidelines Social Media Conference 85

Beyond PR

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

A company that takes the time to define and shape culture and values is one that employees are proud to work in. That’s our aim: to show who we are as a team, to get past the facade of being a corporation and humanize what we do. Image: Harborside employees welcomed at the Manhattan office as the two locations merge.

Company 70

Company How To Employee Resources 70

Prakkypedia

MARCH 9, 2016

Where does emotion feature in a corporate crisis? It can be a fruitless exercise to become emotional over a review, casting you as thin-skinned and immature (ping Lawrence Mooney). In both cases, the employees involved may have been hurt, confused, shocked and angry. Often, the employees are the most important audience.

Transportation 60

Transportation Exercises Interviews Employee 60

Ethical Voices

MAY 8, 2023

We look at their culture of ethics – how are they supporting a strong culture where employees are comfortable using their voices? We also have Cow Corporation, which is a health and beauty company out of Japan that not everybody may have heard of that has made the list 17 times. That’s a great check the box exercise.

Ethics 70

Ethics Training Financial Survey 70

PR in High Definition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In recent months, there has been an undisputed rise in discussions around corporate purpose. But there does seem to be a divide between companies that treat this exercise as a re-hashing of the old ‘vision and mission’ straplines and those who are treating it as an opportunity to seriously reconsider what they stand for.

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Airlines Local Wikipedia Travel 48

PRSay

APRIL 21, 2017

But the exercise in assessing your body of knowledge of this vast profession has remained constant whether typed or through today’s technology. I didn’t work for a large corporation with big budgets and grand campaigns. We did it on typewriters in my day. For that I am grateful, because that means APR stands for something.

Ethics 77

Ethics Radio Education Exercises 77

Prohibition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You can do this by publishing a newsletter, which will inform employees and everyone else about what’s going on. Or it could be a production, financial or management failure that causes a corporate crisis for your business. For example, a cyberattack might halt corporate activities and make them impossible to resume.

Crisis Management 62

Crisis Management Crisis Financial Reputation 62

Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Following is a play-by-play of what you can – and should – do now, to ensure successful crisis communications in the event of a corporate crisis. So if this is the case, how can you ensure effective and successful communication with your stakeholders in a crisis? Step 1: Identify your stakeholders. Candidates. Customers / clients.

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Crisis Communications Crisis Communications Crisis Management 193

Ethical Voices

MAY 6, 2023

We look at their culture of ethics – how are they supporting a strong culture where employees are comfortable using their voices? We also have Cow Corporation, which is a health and beauty company out of Japan that not everybody may have heard of that has made the list 17 times. That’s a great check the box exercise.

Ethics 52

Ethics Training Financial Survey 52

Scott Public Relations

JUNE 26, 2020

Facebook’s refusal to label or prohibit Donald Trump’s posts promoting police violence, in contrast with its own policies and legal guidance prohibiting speech that incites violence, is prompting massive protests from its employees, the media and social media. It’s an exercise in futility. The damage is done and cannot be undone.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Insurance Insurance Social Media 52

PRSay

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In August, United Airlines announced that all of its 67,000 employees must receive COVID-19 vaccines or risk losing their jobs. carrier to impose a vaccine mandate on its workers, initially set a late-October deadline for employees to prove their vaccination status, but then pushed the date up to Sept. The airline, the first U.S.

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Airlines Employee Communications Exercises 170

Prohibition

JANUARY 7, 2022

A personnel crisis is one in which the employment of an employee becomes intolerable because of negative work performance, a disruptive attitude, or problematic substance abuse. Careful planning can help managers identify signs of deterioration (low productivity, high absenteeism) in their employees. Personnel matters.

Crisis Management 62

Crisis Management Crisis Reputation Financial 62

PR Conversations

MAY 1, 2017

Or the crisis plan is siloed in some hidden corporate corner completely out of date. I am sure there are statistics somewhere that record the number of employees who stick around long term after a crisis has occurred and if there aren’t, then there should be. It would be fabulous if such research could include an ethnographic approach.

Crisis 63

Crisis Crisis Management Leadership Training 63

Communications Conversations

JULY 19, 2018

At 3M, I was one member of a pretty big corporate team of social & digital marketing specialists whose services span many divisions across just about every industry you can name. But I see this as a positive, as it forces me to exercise and strengthen my influencer muscle like never before. What’s a fax machine?

Social Media 60

Social Media Media B2B Content Marketing 60

Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And that’s like sort of a good clarifying exercise to start. If you look at social just from a corporate responsibility standpoint, it still stretches across a variety of different functions so comms is responsible for, sort of, what is the corporate official message on a lot of things.

Media 202

Media Storytelling Technology Data 202

Flatiron Communications

APRIL 23, 2015

Rick Scott for banishing the term climate change from government employees’ lips. Two years earlier, at a cost of $200 million, it began an enormous corporate rebranding exercise , shortening its name from British Petroleum to BP, coining the slogan ”Beyond Petroleum” and redesigning its corporate insignia.”

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Tourism Corporate Case Study Television 28

The Hoffman Agency

MARCH 6, 2024

For example, HR materials, employee handbooks? It becomes a tick-box exercise. So while, in principle, businesses are happy to localize inclusivity efforts to cater to market nuances, employees are essentially left to mobilize and fend for themselves. Prospect: No, we don’t have anything like that. Us: OK, no problem.

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Handbook Trade Shows Employee Local 36

PR Conversations

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Instead of focussing all our working attention on dodging the bullets of corporate life and advancing our careers, we need to find out what we want out of life and take a series of practical steps to take control, at home and at work. Taking no more time than we spend every day glued to our phones.

Communications 104

Communications Community Measurement Study 104

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 5, 2018

Here’s an exercise for a startup: take the brand name and corporate information out of your press release or media pitch. Rarely does a single positive story act as a magic bullet, however. PR works best in building brand visibility and credibility over time. You’re not differentiated. Is it still recognizable as your own?

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Pitching Enterprise Exercises Agency 174

Ethical Voices

JANUARY 22, 2024

He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: What to do when your client asks you to besmirch the competition How to effectively and ethically build trust What to do when employees, clients and partners break your trust Why don’t you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your career? You must address it first.

Ethics 77

Ethics How To Training Employee 77

Ethical Voices

JUNE 27, 2023

Joining me on this week’s episode is Bradley Akubuiro , a partner at Bully Pulpit Interactive , where he focuses on corporate reputation, executive communications, and high visibility crisis management and media relations efforts. My career has spanned roles in management consulting, advocacy, and corporate communications.

Ethics 78

Ethics Corporate Leadership Groups 78

Prohibition

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It is the art of managing crises and communicating with relevant parties in a company such as customers, employees, the public, investors or the press. But just as every corporation doesn’t need the same crisis management plan, it is also true that not all corporations need the same messaging approach to their crisis communications.

Crisis Communications 62

Crisis Communications Crisis Communications Crisis Management 62

Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 29, 2019

This idea reminds me of a clothing retailer, who years ago put up controversial billboards and then an employee intentionally – and surreptitiously – defaced them. For many, media relations is just an exercise in exporting a spreadsheet of contacts and hitting the send button. 2) Truly study the media.

Survey 377

Survey Media Relations Media Ethics 377

Bianchi Biz Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Team USA notched the best written test score in their division and Team Japan – a six-time winner of the Grand Prix – needed a win in the practical exercise to squeak out first place overall. What story or stories are you most proud of? Long one here, so bear with me: October 2005. I was the news editor of a small daily newspaper in Alabama.

Journalism 79

Journalism Meeting Newspapers Automotive 79

PRSay

AUGUST 14, 2019

As corporate vice president of communications at Microsoft , Frank X. If you’re going to be successful in reaching 130,000 employees, then you have to be consistent [with your messaging] and have the patience to stick with it,” he says. How did your time in the Marine Corps prepare you for agency and corporate life?

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Internal International Conference Public Affairs 66

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The exercise is a useful reflection on what happened over the course of this past year. 3) lack of employee experience (25%). Read more: Quick Summaries to 5 Surveys of PR and Corporate Communications. Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. Trusted sources of B2B information.

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B2B Marketing Survey Software 114