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LATE IN LONDON — We like lists and in recent times this blog may have been harder on Internal Communicators than is deserved. So here are a few things that you can do in a single day. They will advance your case, secure your reputation and make your organisation more successful. 1. Create a six month plan on one page Put [...] KENSINGTON — There’s not much that is ‘commercial’ in my house. Maybe a few dozen old newspapers with adverts in them. A poster on a child’s wall that promotes a museum or a football team. One doesn’t expect to be sold to at home. However there is one exception: the cereal boxes. We’ve got seven of them. All different. All placed at [...] KINIGHTSBRIDGE — I had a nice bowl of pasta yesterday with one of the leading lights in our business. A guy I have known for 5 years or so, and who has distinguished himself by sustaining and growing a global consulting footprint through the years. And we complained. Like two old men down at the park. “Things have changed.” “There’s not much value [...] LONDON — I am very pleased that this is National Novel Writing Month. It is, I think, just a ruse for a book publishing website. But for me, it’s working. My 13-year-old daughter and I started yesterday morning. We get up early and tap away in the kitchen before the sun comes up. On day two she’s on [...]
SOUTH WEST LONDON — Well? Someone has to ask. It wasn’t that long ago I was explaining to clients where “internal communications” came from. It was a “discipline”, it came from the business realisation that people were a key part of their asset portfolio… and now that we had driven down supply costs, making people more efficient had to do with Internal [...] LONDON — It seems to be catching. But it has actually been going on forever. The departure of a CEO gets business journalists all twitchy with glee. So the stories get written like detective novels: It was a dark night, and she was feeling darker than the dark side of Venus… It’s exciting for the journalists, and maybe even the readers, but [...] THE BREAKFAST TABLE AT 6AM — My young son is reading his school book aloud. To practice. I am pretending to listen. “What!?” he says suddenly. “Rescue a cat from a tree? Firemen don’t do that, do they?” I sense disappointment. “Yes,” I reply. “But only for old ladies in cartoons and movies.” “OK,” he says, as if I [...] TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD — I don’t know any organisation that has not been affected by the global recession of 2008/09. Whether it’s layoffs, sell-offs or even surprising growth, the deal between companies and their employees has changed. It used to be that companies had loyalty to their employees. But the idea of a job for life [...] |
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