It has to be said that anyone who works in the world of ‘comms’ will say they often feel like the whipping boy for just about any organisational failure. Unhappy customers? Probably a failure to communicate. Stakeholders rebelling? The comms team stuffed the engagement. Getting bad news headlines? Well, you get the point.
Read MoreScrub up. This is the new normal. For both media interviews, conferences and internal communication, it’s now up to you to get you and your platform sorted to ensure you’re looking, sounding and being your best.
Read MoreWe spend more of our time working than doing anything else and yet it’s been found that these hours, on average, are the least happy of our lives. Work-related stress is one of the major causes of illnesses in the West.
Read MoreI now realise it wasn’t so much admitting to others that I was working on the ‘dark side’, as journos call it but rather admitting it to myself. After all I had spent more than 30 years in TV news and current affairs. And I loved it. I lived and breathed it. It was a drug and it was hard to pull the needle out of my arm.
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