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Casual Articles - 10 Ways To Rejuvenate Your Communication Game Plan
Today's economic challenges are causing firms to operate more cost effectively. As a result, we are seeing business solutions such as international outsourcing, company mergers, and facility closings. The U.S. workforce is now more racially and religiously diverse, including a higher percentage of women and older
8. Develop simple key messages
Your organization's key messages must be:
Few words
Easily understood
Easy to say
You will often find that a key message and o
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Research
Planning
Implementation
Measurement/evaluation
Many people only do planning and implementation. Research before you get started improves action plans. Sometimes good research demonstrates there is no need for action. Measurement at the end tells you if the program worked. Often people keep doing programs that are ineffective, but they dont realize it because they dont measure results.
2. Know what is expected of you
Department only?
Communication plan for entire organization?
All aspects of communication or just employee communication?
3. Use planning assumptions to help you get started
Environmental scan:
- Social, Political, Technological, Financial factors that affect the organization or the problem
SWOT analysis:
- Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
4. Get focused
Make sure you have the same priorities as the organization leaders
CEO areas of emphasis
Goals of divisions, departments
5. Research, Research, Research
Gather input from:
Key dates for the coming year for your organization
Market information
Competitive information
Do not recreate the wheel find out what others have done
6. Identify audiences very specifically
Then tailor action plan and messages to fit each audience
7. Create a planning template
Use a template that's right for you and your organization. It should list: strategies, tactics, who's responsible, time line, measurement, budget, and other items important for you to track.
8. Develop simple key messages
Your organization's key messages must be:
Few words
Easily understood
Easy to say
You will often find that a key message and on
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2. Know what is expected of you
Department only?
Communication plan for entire organization?
All aspects of communication or just employee communication?
3. Use planning assumptions to help you get started
Environmental scan:
- Social, Political, Technological, Financial factors that affect the organization or the problem
SWOT analysis:
- Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
4. Get focused
Make sure you have the same priorities as the organization leaders
CEO areas of emphasis
Goals of divisions, departments
5. Research, Research, Research
Gather input from:
Key dates for the coming year for your organization
Market information
Competitive information
Do not recreate the wheel find out what others have done
6. Identify audiences very specifically
Then tailor action plan and messages to fit each audience
7. Create a planning template
Use a template that's right for you and your organization. It should list: strategies, tactics, who's responsible, time line, measurement, budget, and other items important for you to track.
8. Develop simple key messages
Your organization's key messages must be:
Few words
Easily understood
Easy to say
You will often find that a key message and o
Lets talk about a principle that I and many other successful salon professionals have used to get there the quickest.The law of attraction states that we are literally living magnets. Depending on what we think about most of the time-causes the world around us to reflect those thoughts. Why? Because thinking causes feelin
SWOT analysis:
- Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
4. Get focused
Make sure you have the same priorities as the organization leaders
CEO areas of emphasis
Goals of divisions, departments
5. Research, Research, Research
Gather input from:
Key dates for the coming year for your organization
Market information
Competitive information
Do not recreate the wheel find out what others have done
6. Identify audiences very specifically
Then tailor action plan and messages to fit each audience
7. Create a planning template
Use a template that's right for you and your organization. It should list: strategies, tactics, who's responsible, time line, measurement, budget, and other items important for you to track.
8. Develop simple key messages
Your organization's key messages must be:
Few words
Easily understood
Easy to say
You will often find that a key message and o
What is the best time to expand a mobile car wash business? If everything were perfect and you could choose the best time to buy a new mobile car wash rig, you should buy it in April and have it running by the 20th of May. If you have 1.5 times the business of your first unit, then you automatically have enough business for one-h
Gather input from:
Key dates for the coming year for your organization
Market information
Competitive information
Do not recreate the wheel find out what others have done
6. Identify audiences very specifically
Then tailor action plan and messages to fit each audience
7. Create a planning template
Use a template that's right for you and your organization. It should list: strategies, tactics, who's responsible, time line, measurement, budget, and other items important for you to track.
8. Develop simple key messages
Your organization's key messages must be:
Few words
Easily understood
Easy to say
You will often find that a key message and o
Have you ever watched one of those home makeover shows? You know the scenario. The homeowners have decorated or remodeled their house all by themselves. After awhile, they realize that what they did is unprofessional, it doesn't work, it's not what they want, it's not what they need, it's ugly, or they just flat out despise it. So
8. Develop simple key messages
Your organization's key messages must be:
Few words
Easily understood
Easy to say
You will often find that a key message and one of your goals are the same. At Arizona State, a goal is: Arizona State is indispensable to the community. That also is one of the schools key messages.
My overall mission is Building trust by improving face-to-face communication. That is my major business goal, the over-riding value, the major key message and it describes my business.
9. To build trust, include some face-to-face communication
Putting things in print often does not get the expected results because it is one-way
Emphasize two-way communication, not sending messages
Use relationship building
Create dialogue
10. Measure outcome, not output
Evaluate what you did:
Did it change peoples minds or behaviors?
Can you use it again?
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