Frank communications means we will always be straight with you; always be imaginative and always seek the right solution for your organisation.
It’s Olympic year and anyone with the slightest connection with the London Games is looking forward to the big event and hoping to gain out of it too. And why not? As well as sport, it is a chance to celebrate what’s great about the UK’s built environment sector. But wait, from what Peter Murray has said in The Times it is not that easy. (more…)
It is the facilities management worst kept secret that it has an image problem. As an industry and as a profession FM needs to promote itself. But is hiring a PR agency the best way forward? And if so, what would they do?
On Wednesday morning (15 June) at Prime Minister’s Questions, David Cameron heard a message that had been sent out a long time ago to him and his fellow MPs. But it appeared he had not fully appreciated its importance or relevance until Ed Milliband asked a question, prompted by research from the Macmillan Cancer charity. It proved one of the central rules about life, politics and business: listening is the secret to good communication. But you have to hear first before you can start to listen. (more…)
When is PR, writing and general consultancy like sharing your life with a cat? I asked this question some time last year. My answer was that clients are actually like clients most of the time. Many people got back to me and agreed – many of them were not consultants like me, but I reckon the analogy works best if you’re a consultant working in the service sector.
I’m reminding you again, because, let’s face it, clients can be like cats and both of them have made it clear to me in the past 48 hours or so. (more…)
Making money is not easy these days. Margins are being cut as costs rise, clients in all sectors of society and business are demanding more for less. Some of for them for unscrupulous reasons, others simply because they are squeezed themselves. We all have to adjust. So, it is refreshing to see some simple, straightforward advice from David Brain of Edelman, a business leader that quite rightly argues that things need not be that complicated. Because what most of us do is not rocket science is it? (more…)