Ever wondered how facilitators work? How do they design a workshop? Why do you even need a facilitator? I had a chat to Samantha Sutherland about how we work together to design workshops to lift the curtain on the process…
Canberra Communications Professional Series: Alison Senti
Alison is well known in Canberra communications circles, having worked in the industry for two decades and as the former President of IABC Canberra. Inspired by her kids, other communicators and recently re-elected Jacinda Ardern (who isn’t?), Alison has recently…
Im not, perfcet
I’m not perfect. And neither are you. This week I got a not so nice comment on a social media post. It made me reflect on how judgemental we can be about people when we are online. I am the…
Canberra Communications Professionals Series: Chloe Alexander
Chloe is the Media and Corporate Communications Officer at ActewAGL. She was nominated by Samantha Lloyd at colleague from Evo Energy. She is a people pleaser (aren’t we all!) who is drawn to people who aren’t afraid to speak out…
I used to be great at multitasking
It was one of my strengths. Something I prided myself on. I could make a cup of tea, hold a conversation, clear a paper and have one eye on the news. I could multitask. I have been told before (more…
Canberra Communications Professional Series: Astrid O’Neill
Astrid was nominated by Lisa Ranson who is a fellow board member on the IABC Canberra board. Since 2018, Astrid has worked at Cordelta as a content writer, designer and now Content Lead. She is a girl after my own…
The importance of having a communications plan
I have been working with a lot of smaller organisations recently. A consistent theme is that they don’t have the capacity or capability in-house to write a communications strategy. By the time they talk to me, they are a bit…
Canberra Communications Professional series: Emily Curlewis
Emily is the Chief Operations Officer at Veritec, a Canberra-based IT company who specalises in partnering with the public sector through Microsoft solutions. I first met Emily when she had just moved to Canberra and was immediately drawn to her…
Working from home: Team leader communications
How should you be communicating to your team over the next few months? In some states, people are starting to float back into the office, but really you never really know where anyone is on any given day. You have…
Canberra Communications Professional series: Lisa Borthwick
Lisa is another member of the ex-PRIA club. I loved sitting next to Lisa in board meetings because she was never afraid to say what she thought, her experience in communications meant she was normally right. After PRIA, it was…
