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3 Keys to Running Successful Internal M&A Comms Campaigns [Guest Post]

Sword and the Script

Consider your audience and prioritize communicating with your employees. Employees are arguably your most important stakeholders, and news of a merger or acquisition causes anxiety to spike among them. Start by understanding the perceptions that already exist within your audience of employees. They could have just asked.

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3 Strategies for Overcoming the Internal Struggle of Crisis Ready Resistance

Melissa Agnes

Gaining internal buy-in from the right people to implement a crisis ready culture can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. The following is an excerpt taken from Crisis Ready (which is available for purchase on Amazon ) to help you address this internal challenge, if this struggle is relatable to you. This struggle is real.

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“Internal” PR: Takeaways for Summer 2016

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

A wave of mild panic is sweeping over public relations agencies all over the land this week as this year’s crop of summer interns prepares to go back to school. These student employees add value and voice to all PR teams, and we hope they reap as many benefits as we do. Don’t fence me in. Come from a place of yes.

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Knowing your team: the bedrock of internal communications

PR in High Definition

Maintaining robust internal communications. Internal communication has always been vital to the overall strategy of any firm. Multi-year Gallup research found that employee disengagement costs the UK economy £52-£70 billion per year. It allows you to choose the best channels and tone of voice depending on your audience.

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For Sensitive Subject of Job Losses, CEOs Need Sound PR Counsel

PRSay

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. People were shocked then.

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This New Year, Resolve to Give Your Staff Presentation Training

PRSay

The exercises often concentrate on opposites and extremes, such as gesticulating versus keeping your hands in your lap. After being trained, people often feel more in control of how they present in group settings such as internal team meetings, video calls or major conferences. Some won’t like how they look or sound on camera.

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Does cybersecurity have a comms problem?

PR in High Definition

It’s going to be difficult to embed cybersecurity across a business if there’s a lack of internal comms, and absolutely zero external comms plans in place. Bridging the internal comms gap Improving comms in cybersecurity starts internally, by bridging the comms gap. Living and breathing the plan. The bottom line?

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