Focused Diagnostics • Practical Solutions • Business Results
In this two-hour workshop, you will learn the difference between communicating about an organizational strategy and communicating in a way that actually fulfills the strategy. You will use a step-by-step process for engaging your executive management in communication planning in a way that feels like other, logical business processes they are comfortable with, and makes it easy to know what to measure.
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I’m always perplexed when I see communicators saying they want to stop pushing their newsletters by email, or replace email with social media, or replace their intranet with apps without first researching the appropriateness of the channels to the content or the needs and preferences of their employees.
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It’s hard to connect our work with our organization’s desired results unless we plan our communication strategies from the beginning to help deliver those results. This workshop will give you an easy-to-follow, step-by-step process to connect communication to business goals—and then prove the value of the communication.
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You know you should be measuring communication, but you have no budget, no time–and no permission to pester your audience with questions. Stop looking at those as barriers and learn to see them as opportunities to find creative ways to gather data on effectiveness.
Areas for improvement across global business can be highlighted and made better through local measurement, mentoring and smart KPIs.
Complex strategies often lead to complex communication — which is less likely to make sense to the employees who will need to implement the strategy. Research can identify simpler ways to achieve the same goals.
It’s nearly impossible to quantify the ROI of an entire communication program for an entire business strategy in a way that makes sense to executives. You’ll need to pick one particular business initiative that supports one business strategy.
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Trust and credibility shouldn’t be the only factors determining which sources of information we use. Just because we believe what someone tells us doesn’t mean we want them to do the telling.
