Understanding your environment creates communications plans that work
I talked about the importance of environmental scanning in my post about developing communication strategies. I wanted to take some time to look at this area in a little more detail as it is often a piece that is overlooked.…
Back to basics: communication strategy development
As communicators putting together a group of disparate pieces of information to solve a problem is our bread and butter. However, even the most experienced of us sometimes loses sight of how to pull together a communications strategy. Whether it…
Have we lost the art of developing a communications strategy?
In government communications we are often overwhelmed with day-to-day priorities. We get sucked into the urgent issues, responding to those that yell the loudest. We move from task-to-task achieving good outcomes but not always with a long-term goal in mind.…