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29Feb
20 Years of Teamwork: Celebrating the Heart of Communiqué PR
As Colleen wrote earlier this month, 2024 marks Communiqué PR 20th year in business. While we commemorate this anniversary, we also want to reflect on the incredible individuals we have worked with over the years. The team has been instrumental in creating a vibrant culture at Communiqué PR, which has been so important to our success. When Colleen and I [...]
Filed under: Career, Collaboration, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Diversity, Experience, Leadership, Our Results, PUBLIC RELATIONS, Remote Work, Spirit, WORK
08Feb
Preparing Panelists for Virtual Conferences
Virtual conferences have gained popularity in today’s remote working environment. Compared to in-person gatherings, they offer the potential to reach more attendees and save up to 75% in event production fees. Virtual events are now a cornerstone of networking and information-sharing, especially for global organizations with a distributed workforce and international customer base. Virtual gatherings remove geographical barriers, enabling professionals [...]
Filed under: Execution, PR trends, PUBLIC RELATIONS, Remote Work, Technology
18Jan
Hit Refresh in 2024: 10 New Year’s Resolutions for the Workplace
A new year feels like a new beginning. It’s an opportunity to hit refresh on our personal and professional lives, to embrace change, cultivate growth and set forth on a path of renewed determination. Below are 10 New Year’s resolutions to help you chart a course for workplace success, enhanced productivity and professional fulfillment in 2024. #1: Tidy Up Tidying [...]
Filed under: Career, Collaboration, INDUSTRY, Planning, Remote Work, Spirit, WORK
13Apr
Mastering Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Meetings & Across Cultures: Tips and Insights for Success
Many people have heard or read the data about the importance of nonverbal communication in conveying information. Experts often report that nonverbals are more powerful than the words we actually use. In fact, studies suggest that nonverbal communication accounts for 70 to 93% of communication – including body language, gestures, eye contact, facial expressions, voice (volume, rate, pitch, and timbre) [...]
Filed under: Collaboration, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Remote Work, Technology
07Feb
You Need an Internal Communications Strategy. Here’s How to Do It
Today, there are a plethora of tools that an organization may use to communicate with employees. These include email, company intranet, video conferencing solutions like Zoom, instant messaging platforms like Slack or Microsoft teams and more. Creating an internal communications strategy, including guidelines for how to use tools, can benefit communicators in their efforts to share information with employees effectively. [...]
Filed under: Collaboration, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Leadership, Remote Work, WORK
22Dec
Best Practices for Calendar Management
Has there ever been a time when you needed to collaborate with coworkers, clients, or vendors, and it became a momentous task to schedule a time that works on everyone’s calendar? With the holidays in full swing, it can become stressful to get jobs done when it requires meetings with others who may be on vacation, not to mention all [...]
Filed under: Collaboration, Planning, Remote Work, Technology, WORK
25Oct
Microsoft Excel Tips for PR Professionals
Microsoft Excel has been a staple for my work in office environments, even after changing industries. I have needed Excel for multiple reasons, first in childcare management and now in my current role in a public relations firm. Excel is an essential tool for creating quality, data-related work, and I have found that even though I have Excel experience, my [...]
Filed under: Collaboration, Education, Monitor and Measure, PUBLIC RELATIONS, Remote Work, Technology, WORK
08Sep
Best practices for internalizing feedback
The COVID-19 pandemic and increased popularity of remote work have put professional coaching and employee development on the back burner. Employees need performance feedback now more than ever. As workers look for ways to improve, it is essential for them to maximize the impact of feedback. Here are five best practices when practicing internalizing feedback. Explicitly seek feedback. The first [...]
Filed under: Career, Collaboration, Remote Work, WORK
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 [...]
Filed under: Career, Collaboration, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Experience, Jobs, Remote Work, WORK
30Jun
Navigating the Post-Pandemic PR World
Key takeaways from PRNews’s “Measuring Earned Media Pitching In Today’s Hybrid Environment” The industry is still learning how to navigate our post-pandemic world. From hybrid events to media relations, we are all adjusting to new best practices. This month’s webinar from PRNews provided some valuable guidance. “Measuring Earned Media Pitching In Today’s Hybrid Environment” featured a panel of speakers that [...]
Filed under: Collaboration, Consumer, INDUSTRY, Media, Planning, PR trends, PUBLIC RELATIONS, Remote Work, Social media, Technology, WORK
21Jun
Becoming a Strong Mentee
When establishing yourself in a new industry, building a relationship with a mentor – someone who coaches and guides you to obtain a better knowledge of your industry and profession – is arguably one of the most important professional steps you can take. In fact, individuals with mentors are five times more likely to get promoted than individuals without mentors. [...]
Filed under: Career, Collaboration, Remote Work, WORK
17May
Improving Mental Health Awareness in the Workplace
In recent years, mental health has become a significant concern globally. People are now more vocal about mental health, which reduces associated stigmas. However, the consequences of mental health struggles are often still not widely talked about in many workplaces. May is a great time to raise awareness of those living with mental health issues because it is Mental Health [...]
Filed under: Career, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Diversity, Remote Work, Spirit, WORK
10May
How PR Firms Can Improve Security Measures Amid the Uptick in Cyberattacks
Over the past few weeks, the world has watched the Ukrainian-Russian crisis evolve into a significant conflict, impacting hundreds of thousands of people and businesses. After the conflict broke out, U.S. cybersecurity agencies reported an 800% increase in cyberattacks over a 48-hour period. Additionally, President Biden warns that a flood of significant cyberattacks may be on the way that could [...]
Filed under: COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Crisis Communications, PUBLIC RELATIONS, Remote Work, Technology, WORK
03Mar
Learning How to be Agile in the Workplace
Merriam-Webster defines agile as “marked by ready ability to move with quick easy grace,” and “having a quick, resourceful and adaptable character.” Being agile is about keeping up, taking quick action and being comfortable shifting direction on a moment’s notice. Agility has been a lesson in which most of us have involuntarily taken a crash course since the start of [...]
Filed under: COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Experience, PUBLIC RELATIONS, Remote Work, Spirit, WORK
13Jan
Top Tips to Future-Proof Your Business
Transformations to the digital world and workplace are happening all the time and impact how we interact with our organizations daily. This shift has emphasized the need for collaborative tools, new communication techniques, increased security and maintenance of competency as team members span across various locations and business practices shift. Keeping up with the times is difficult enough on a [...]
Filed under: Business to Business, Collaboration, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, INDUSTRY, Leadership, Remote Work, Tech Industry, Technology
11Jan
AP Style Evolves with the Pandemic
As we begin the third calendar year of the coronavirus pandemic, the fast-spreading omicron variant has thrown us yet another curveball, causing staffing shortages and closures and disrupting essential services for travelers, medical patients and students alike. Over the past 24 months, terms like COVID-19, social distancing and quarantine have become part of our daily vernacular. As the virus evolves, [...]
Filed under: COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Healthcare Industry, Media, PR trends, PUBLIC RELATIONS, Remote Work, Writing
04Jan
Looking Into the Crystal Ball: 5 Predictions for Public Relations in 2022
As we look ahead to 2022, I want to share my predictions for the public relations industry. I also encourage you to check out this blog post titled 2022 Public Relations Predictions From PR Experts. The Business Wire content team included one of my predictions, along with those of other agency owners and leaders. My full list includes the following: [...]
Filed under: Collaboration, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Crisis Communications, Diversity, Execution, INDUSTRY, PR trends, PUBLIC RELATIONS, Remote Work, Social media, Technology
28Dec
Behind the Times: Journalism Grapples with Who Works in Newsrooms, and Who Doesn’t
As much as any fixture of modern life, newsrooms have been canaries in the coal mine on matters of social change. The presence of women and minorities in the newsroom has been regarded as a bellwether of a better modern society, an indicator of its transformative possibilities, and a righteous assault on one of the last redoubts of white male [...]
Filed under: Collaboration, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Diversity, Experience, Media, PUBLIC RELATIONS, Remote Work, WORK
23Nov
Thanksgiving for Relationships
As PR professionals, we are information brokers. We endeavor to provide clear and accurate information to specific audiences on behalf of our clients. This work is the “what” of this profession, but the “how” is where the real work comes in. Our work often requires intellectual horsepower, the ability to write, and creativity, among other things. Relationship building is another [...]
Filed under: Collaboration, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Diversity, Experience, Media, PUBLIC RELATIONS, Remote Work, Sources, Spirit, WORK
09Nov
Battling Trauma and Fatigue, Obstacles to Motivation in the COVID Era
Life and work in the era of COVID-19 have taken big blows. The impact on performance at work and our rest at home has been profound, and it’s an ongoing story. The pandemic that hasn’t really ended yet has prompted mental health professionals to rethink some of the longstanding ideas about stress, motivation and fatigue – and the best ways [...]
Filed under: Collaboration, COMMUNIQUÉ PR, Diversity, Leadership, Remote Work, Spirit, WORK