Services

Strategic

  • Audit or review part or all of your communications channels
  • Prepare & deliver communications strategies and plans
  • Identify stakeholders and prepare stakeholder engagement campaigns
  • Message development
  • Crisis communication planning and scenario training

External

  • Building and training communications teams, media, internal, events
  • Writing external communications materials, marketing leaflets, press releases etc(1)
  • Planning and delivering events, exhibitions, seminars and conferences(2)
  • Media management training
  • Media interview coaching
  • Speech writing & speech delivery coaching(3)
  • Presentations preparation and presentation skills coaching
  • Review look, style and content of website/internet presence(4)

Internal

  • Building internal communications channels
  • Developing internal communications messages strategies
  • ‘Meet the Execs’ events
  • Internal events and stakeholder networking
  • Coaching managers on team meetings/cascade communications
  • Coaching managers on team communications, appraisals, one-to-ones, recruitment interviewing, personal communications and time

Other

  • Planning change communications campaigns
  • Outplacement/Redundancy programmes & Survivor programmes(5)
  • HR communications programmes(6)

(1) We work with the specialist marcomms company Designs on your company Ltd on these projects at no extra cost to you.

(2) We work with specialists Central Conference Consultants Ltd on these projects at no extra cost to you.  CCCL are a specialist events management agency.

(3) Speech delivery specialist and NLP trainer Julia Haythorn will normally be brought in to help in this area.

(4) We work with Dynamic Array Ltd on these projects at no extra cost to you.  Dynamic Array are a specialist website development agency.

(5) We work with New Horizons Careers Ltd on these projects at no extra cost to you.  NHC are a specialist outplacement and career management agency.

(6) We work with Bennett-Coles Associates on these projects at no extra cost to you.  BCA are specialist HR consultants who also cover talent management and retirement planning.




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