The IABC NSW President Simon Covill, Past President Barbara Palframan Smith and Board Member Nicole Tankard have been invited to speak at the IABC Asia Pacific Leadership Summit to be helld in Kuala Lumpur 5-7 September.
The Leadership Summit provides an opportunity for current issues and emerging trends in communication to be presented to IABC leaders across the region. Some scholarship opportunities exist. Full details are available on the IABC NSW website:
http://www.iabcnsw.com/default.asp?action=article&ID=133
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TJ Larkin headlines record IABCNSW event
Change communication guru TJ Larkin last night entertained over 100 employee communication, change and human resource professionals at the IABCNSW August professional development event.
Presenting an overview of his findings and approach to communicating big change using small communication TJ proved his reputation as thought-provoking, entertaining and insightful.
TJ focussed on three elements of his report ‘Communicating Big Change Using Small Communication (available for free download from his site).
In particular, the focus was on:
– communicating early
– equipping managers to talk about the change, and
– making the content valuable to the audience (not just what managers want to say).
TJ provided a rich and entertaining set of examples that were alarmingly close to the bone for some of the audience, judging by the laughter of recognition and questions from participants.
The event was presented by IABC New South Wales and sponsored by Impact Communication.
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Proudfoot study claims poor communication bad for productivity
Providing excellent ammunition to communicator’s claims that its about results – Melcrum’s ‘The Hub’ has picked up on a study on organisational productivity recently published by Proudfoot Consulting. The study compares productivity within companies across 17 nations.
The Hub reports that evecutives cite poor internal communication as a significant factor in poor productivity.
“50% of the total number of survey respondents put the blame on internal communication problems between departments, while 44% cited poor management and a further 33% said it was down to poor employee motivation or morale” reported the Melcrum site.
http://www.internalcommshub.com/open/news/business_inefficiency.shtml
The full report and media release from Proudfoot consulting is available here:
http://www.proudfootconsulting.com/Default.aspx?id=198826
Where does employee communications belong – Part 2
A few weeks ago, I wrote of a study from the UK on the debate as to where the communications function is best situated within a business. A notable addition to the debate also comes from the UK’s the Internal Communications Alliance. In an article on their site, they describe the situation as the “insoluble conundrum”. Nicely put. The article is not dated, so I am unsure as to whether this is a lead or lag thread of the discussion, but worth a look: http://www.cipr.co.uk/groups/special/ica/events/stories_main.htm#insoluble
Also worth a look in the same context is the controversial Fast Company article from last year on why business hates HR:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/97/open_hr.html
This is as useful to communicators if for every mention of the HR function we substitute the communication function (well, almost every mention). What it does do is provide a clear view of the challenges faced by the organisational software functions – culture, human resources, communications.
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