Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

Internal Communications. The truth is that internal communications are really important to how things get done in any organization. Measuring the effectiveness of internal communications is an interesting PR problem that has often been debated by experts. Executive Thought Leadership. How do you know what’s working?

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Doctor Spin

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Infographic: Step Up—Or Step Back Practice symbolic pacing in your communicative leadership. Leadership pacing is about managing your energy and ensuring you’re ready to lead actively when the situation demands it. Leadership pacing is about managing your energy and ensuring you’re ready to lead actively when the situation demands it.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Many young professionals aspire to leadership roles in their organizations, and senior executives advise the way to the top requires a concerted effort to build relationships across an organization over time. She teaches courses in public relations and advertising. A Guest Post By Marlene S. Marlene Neill, Ph.D.,

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This B2B marketing pitfall risks wasting your spend on influencers – and may have implications for social advertising, email marketing and even internal communications The use of influencers is on the rise in B2B marketing. Of course, choosing the right influencer is a prerequisite. There’s also vetting and due diligence.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It can help deliver key messages, communicate expertise and drive thought leadership for business brands. But there are many types of content that build credibility and leadership as part of a strategic PR program. As outlined in my post on PR tips for effective bylines , bylined content is a powerful part of a B2B PR plan.

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Agility PR Solutions

JULY 31, 2023

The internal tide is swelling within companies worldwide as leaders struggle to adapt to new workplace challenges, including the ever-evolving hybrid work model, the imminent effort to hone workers’ skills—and win their trust—an AI becomes a central strategy, and of course the unpredictability of a shaky economy.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

More thought leadership opportunities. Over the past couple of years, many large publications have stopped accepting bylined articles and thought leadership pieces from outside companies. This means that most trades have a built-in audience of readers that are already engaged in their content. Others require membership fees.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 26, 2024

Thought leadership benefits B2B marketing in so many ways – awareness, consideration and even customer retention – but it can have adverse effects when it’s under-resourced and turns out to be light on substance The social media platform LinkedIn and the PR firm Edelman routinely team up to conduct surveys.

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The Hoffman Agency

MARCH 4, 2025

In previous workplaces, leadership often felt like a distant entity emerging only for final presentations. He explained that learning to internalize feedback positively is the secret to growth. Recognizing that leadership was rooting for my success reshaped how I approached revisions, conversations and challenges.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Of course, it stemmed from an error I made as a fresh faced intern. During client and internal meetings, conversations may go off on tangents but there may be great points said that can be used to create a proactive pitch angle or a starting point for a thought-leadership piece. Chris Harihar , Partner .

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Almost every marketing role I’ve ever had has involved leadership changes and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). You can produce anonymous internal surveys, if nothing else. Internal M&A comms is essentially a reputation and brand management play. Pay attention to anecdotes from managers.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 11, 2020

The latter is more difficult, of course. Use internal insights for leadership content. Sometimes organizations have internal data that can provide a potentially interesting news hook and they don’t even realize it. One way to do it is through shrewd use of data.

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Onclusive

JUNE 1, 2023

When a journalist writes a negative article, internal stakeholders may jump to conclusions about the impact that will have on your brand. You can course correct your comms strategy when overall sentiment dips and immediate action is required. So, they must be monitored and analysed closely.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Resources Mentioned: Glenn Allsopp’s article on who controls search Cyrus Shepard’s Study on Internal Linking Nate’s LinkedIn Nate’s Twitter Main Takeaways 1. Internal linking is one of the least appreciated jobs in SEO. You don’t want to use the exact same anchor text on every internal link. Positional is now live!

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 20, 2021

True thought leadership is hard to achieve, not because it’s hard, but because some in B2B just can’t get out of their own way. Of course, I was flattered and happy to re-connect with an old colleague. The internal enthusiasm from the executive team for that blog skyrocketed after that article landed. The story was unsolicited.

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PRSay

JULY 27, 2020

Employees have never liked corporate-speak, of course. This includes strengthening leadership at all levels and strengthening capability across our organization. Our efforts are grounded in a forthcoming set of Leadership Priorities, which will serve as the foundation for an integrated Performance & Development System.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 23, 2016

It defines everything from the structure, roles and responsibilities of your crisis team, straight through to your internal escalation process. This applies to everything from the leadership structure of your company to the language you use to name and refer to your crisis teams (more on this below).

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 13, 2018

Every two years, the New York-based Corporate Communication International ( CCI ), conducts an in-depth survey of senior PR and communications officers at Fortune 500 companies about the latest global PR trends. You must assess a situation quickly and determine a course of action quickly, often ahead of all the facts being known.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

However, when one of my friends attended the training course for SWAT candidates, I began codifying what it means to be a crisis decision-maker. And give authority to those people who have internalized these values of adaptive crisis response. Crisis Management Resources Emergency Management Leadership in a Crisis Provoking Thought'

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is a marketing leadership problem. Worst of all, more leadership attention and more of the marketing budget is focused on patching the avoidable gaps. That’s the price of leadership. Of course, it wasn’t. Of course, it wasn’t. You can’t know your audience if you don’t talk to them. This includes leaders.

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Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Internal Communications Internal communications are crucial in determining how things are accomplished in any organization. Experts have often debated the interesting PR problem of measuring the effectiveness of internal communications. How do you know what’s working?

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Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

War, fear, international isolation, and nationalism shaped an entire generation of people that now hold the majority of power and leadership in the western world — the Baby Boomers. How do we take an understanding of generational gaps and correlate them with leadership style, motivations, and the ability to connect with people?

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Deirdre Breakenridge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The United Nations Foundation (UNF)’s Girl Up campaign, for example, relies heavily on digital platforms such as Instagram , Facebook , YouTube videos, and blogs to encourage youth to advocate for health, education, and leadership for girls everywhere. Another idea is to upload Instagram Stories and save it to “ Story Highlights.”

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 20, 2019

She teaches courses on public relations and international strategic communication and is an avid fan of “Game of Thrones.” She was previously a public diplomacy practitioner for the Swiss and British embassies in Washington and communications director at the Meridian International Center.

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PRSay

JUNE 15, 2021

Well, COVID-19 of course. And we have a new President and new leadership in Congress. You need to demonstrate leadership from the highest levels, and you need to have something substantive to say, but you also need to understand that your words must match your actions. Always in all ways. Know when to speak up and when not to.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Ask yourself what is important to you and create goals within your role and share them with team leadership. Even if you perceive your work to be completely unrelated to your undergraduate course of study, there are always ways to make strategic connections, particularly to the field of communications. Know when it’s time to move on.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 21, 2019

Speaking engagements are an effective way to shape executive thought leadership. To take action and amplify its push for gender diversity, it created its own women’s leadership half-day conference called Empower , held on International Women’s Day. See this earlier post for more on better PR with third-party partnerships.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

To support the ongoing operation of a PR program, a company needs an internal manager, C-level insights and participation, and a roadmap for a 12-month period. Depending on its stage of life, a competent internal professional or team with relevant experience can work just fine. Does every startup need an outside agency?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 12, 2019

Of course the goal is to get the company in the news so that it will be more visible and better known, but for what? It can generate great coverage tied back to the company and allow opportunities for thought leadership. Does the startup have internal support for the PR agency? What are your goals?

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

We have to stay the course. The power of self-advocacy Bria Bryant, global chief marketing officer at marketing services company Assembly Global, said that to reach the C-suite, What worked for me was advocating for myself and unapologetically celebrating my wins internally. Its how I got to where I am. There is no shame in my game.

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Inbound PR

MAY 29, 2018

I'm also fascinated by leadership so when I stumbled upon this HBR research on what leadership looks like in different cultures during an online course on International Project Management , I had to dig deeper into it and decided to summarise my learnings in the below infographic. I'm fascinated by culture.

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PR in High Definition

OCTOBER 25, 2024

But, of course, it has to be real—if employee advocacy feels forced, it won’t just flop, it’ll backfire. On the other hand, if you’re more focused on reaching potential clients or business partners, highlighting your leadership team and industry experts might be a better fit. And don’t forget to team up with HR leaders. What’s working?

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JULY 24, 2018

In 2014, Richard Bistrong , a former international sales executive, contacted me after he was released from prison. Of course, if you’d like to know more about my journey with Richard, you can email either of us at Deirdre@PurePerformanceComm.com or RichardTBistrong@gmail.com. I’ll share a little story with you.

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Cision

JULY 5, 2016

I’m coming on board at a pivotal time in the firm’s evolution and look forward to playing a role in setting its course for the future. If not, consider multiple internships with different types of marketers: a PR firm, an advertising agency, an internal corporate marketing team. My biggest pet peeve is…meetings that veer off course.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Lester spent months studying for the exam, participating in the online prep course and listening to the audiobook “Fundamentals of Public Relations.”. She had signed up for an APR Boot Camp in April, but like many other face-to-face meetings, the course was canceled. “I Her goal was to take the test in June 2020. Ann Peru Knabe, Ph.D.,

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

How can communications professionals show leadership to help counter this epidemic of incivility? Creative PR, media and internal communicators are qualified to create campaigns based on acts of kindness; communications that go deeper into the human heart. Such campaigns will lift eyebrows, turn heads and drop jaws.

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PRSay

JANUARY 14, 2020

Harold Burson, named the 20 th Century’s most influential PR practitioner by PRWeek , thought his two most valuable contributions to the profession were, first, for Burson-Marsteller having led the way for agencies to move past being a “cottage industry” to become international institutions.

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