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07Nov
How to Build Connection in Remote Teams: Insights from Harvard Business Review
A recent Gallup "State of the Global Workplace" report highlights that about 20% of employees worldwide experience loneliness daily. That number rises to 25% among fully remote workers. Experts say this is troubling because it impacts an individual’s well-being. Lonely employees also tend to be less engaged and productive. Fortunately, Constance Noonan Hadley from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business [...]
Filed under: Career, Collaboration, Jobs, Remote Work, Spirit, WORK
01Sep
Five Ways to Better Understand your Client’s Industry
A PR professional who fails to educate themselves about a client’s industry is like a ship captain with no map; you will find yourself going nowhere or steering in the wrong direction. Becoming an expert in your clients’ fields helps you see how you can add value. Understanding their industry will help you reach target audiences and help clients to [...]
Filed under: COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Experience, INDUSTRY, Jobs, PUBLIC RELATIONS
14Jul
Best Practices for Remote Onboarding
Starting a new job can be daunting. Oftentimes it brings a variety of challenges, such as a more intensive workload, new co-workers to meet, new software to learn, and new institutional knowledge to acquire. Overcoming these hurdles during an in-person onboarding can be difficult. In a fully remote environment, though, these challenges can seem overwhelming. With 36.2 million Americans expected [...]
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07Jun
Preserving Institutional Knowledge
As I finish my work for Communiqué PR, I want to set my replacement – and the company – up for success. To that end, here are some best practices for transferring institutional knowledge. What is Institutional Knowledge? Institutional knowledge is the cumulative knowledge that an organization requires to run smoothly. Because individual knowledge varies by role, assigned tasks, and [...]
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07Sep
Communiqué PR is Adding to its Team!
Due to growth across the firm, we are looking to add several individuals to our team. The Communiqué PR team is made up of highly collaborative professionals that provide strategic counsel and tactical support for our clients across a variety of industries. Our team is collectively focused on delivering exceptional results to help our clients achieve their most important business [...]
Filed under: Career, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Education, Jobs, Leadership, News, PUBLIC RELATIONS, Remote Work, WORK
08Apr
Activating ‘Brainsets’ for Creative Problem Solving
In a fast-paced work environment, professionals tend to address problems with the same, overused solutions. This copy-and-paste maneuver is an efficient use of our brain’s energy but tends to treat unique problems with generalized solutions. What if we could hack our brain and force it to think in more creative ways? Dr. Shelley Carson, author of “Your Creative Brain: Seven [...]
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25Mar
7 Tips for Returning to Work After Family Leave
Point blank, transitioning back to work after family leave is challenging. Getting your head back in the game after a weeklong vacation can be difficult. Imagine after several weeks or months. It’s an “intense physical and psychological adjustment,” notes Denise Rousseau, a professor of organizational behavior and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. While I have only been back to [...]
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04Mar
How 2020 is Influencing Workplace Behaviors and Practices in 2021
This month, we approach the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic hitting the U.S. While it is a grim milestone, we are not without hope, as we’ve seen the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and the recently authorized vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. President Joe Biden expects the U.S. to deliver enough coronavirus vaccines for all adults by [...]
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21Jan
Supporting Employee Engagement and Wellbeing in 2021
If you run a business or manage employees, you may be accustomed to the evaluations that can estimate how successful your workers are. You analyze people’s productivity, the quality of their work, or qualitative feedback from customers and co-workers to ascertain the value they bring to the company. However, people don’t work in a vacuum. The environment, including policies and [...]
Filed under: COMMUNIQUÉ PR, INDUSTRY, Jobs, Tech Industry
14Jan
Thriving When Nothing Feels Normal
At the end of the year I saw numerous social media posts about being ready to say goodbye to 2020 and the events of the past year and welcoming 2021. Yet within days, it became evident the change of the calendar was not going to miraculously solve the variety of fundamental issues we are facing – including the global pandemic, [...]
Filed under: COMMUNIQUÉ PR, INDUSTRY, Jobs
12Jan
Meetings Owe the Pandemic a “Thank You”
In the past year we’ve celebrated drive-by graduations from the safety of our cars and shared meals in make-shift plastic igloos in restaurant parking lots. We’ve adopted video conferencing for such diverse purposes as doctor’s visits, wine tastings, family holiday gatherings and worship services. And the COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the way we gather for school and work. How [...]
Filed under: Business to Business, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Jobs, Social media, Strategy, Tech Industry
27Oct
Reflecting on My First Year in Public Relations
Last month I received a beautiful flower bouquet and note from Communiqué PR celebrating my first year at the company. It’s been an amazing journey this past year, jam-packed with different experiences and projects that have helped shape me into the public relations professional I am today. In college, I had taken one public relations class before I joined the [...]
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08Oct
Feeling Uninspired? Here Are 5 Meaningful Improvements You Should Make to Your Home Office
It has been nearly eight months since employees began working remotely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many companies have announced they will continue to support remote work until the summer or fall of 2021. While others are considering integrating remote work into their long-term business model. This means many employees are stuck in their homes with the task of [...]
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24Sep
5 Simple Tips to Improve Your Career Success During the Pandemic
Is your inspiration and motivational drive lacking this morning? Maintaining a positive and determined mentality while confined to working at home with the world in unrest can seem impossible. Recently, I came across an article published by Forbes that stuck with me, as it succinctly summarized five key "power skills" to focus on during the pandemic. Reading this article, I [...]
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10Sep
7 Tips to Prepare for Family Leave
Congratulations: You’re having a baby! Between reveling in the news, taking weekend power naps (while you can) and dreaming about your future mini-me, you might begin panicking about how your life will change — including your professional life. Sure, you’ll probably take a break from late nights at the office and Friday happy hours, but having a baby doesn’t mean [...]
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28Aug
Round-up: Advice for Selecting a PR Firm
Earlier this month, I fielded an email from an early-stage CEO planning an announcement about the debut of his company and gathering information to inform his process and selection of a public relations partner. In responding to his email, I realized we have written on the topic of firm selection over the years several times for our blog and thought [...]
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Don’t Eat the Marshmallow! And Other Lessons From Harvard
September typically marks the return to school for children all over the country, but earlier this summer I had the opportunity to pack up my notebooks and pencils and head off to Harvard for a leadership workshop with Communiqué PR’s management team. The session, “Managing Yourself and Leading Others” was packed into a solid two days of case studies, live [...]
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Academia v. The Real World: What I Learned About Working in PR
As a student studying public relations, one of the first things taught is the importance of interning. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs for public relations specialists are growing at 7 percent annually. With a large number of students receiving degrees in communication, it’s now more paramount than ever to “get your foot in the door” and gain [...]
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3 Steps to Success: Your First Year in PR and Onward
“We are excited to have you onboard,” one of the founding partners told me as I was settling into my new role. Little did I know, what I was about to embark on would change my perception on PR, business and what it means to do what you love. It all started with my fascination with how stories are told [...]
Filed under: INDUSTRY, Jobs, Planning, PR trends, PUBLIC RELATIONS
10 Practical Skills From Food Service to PR
They say do what you love and it will never feel like work, it’s cliché but it’s essentially true. Just recently I began my career in PR and though I absolutely love my new job, it triggered a huge lifestyle shift. I worked in the hospitality industry for the past eight years and I did every job you can imagine [...]
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