Read my Latest Newsletter – Powerlines 92

The latest edition of Powerlines – Number 92 – The Newsletter for Reputation & Stakeholder Managers is now available for your reading pleasure by sending an e-mail to deonbin@icon.co.za. Powerlines serves more than 8500 international and local readers! This is an opt-in newsletter. In this month’s newsletter: 1. Food For Thought 2. Loss Of Confidence […]

Which Manager Influenced Your Reputation & Character? An Exercise To Determine What Makes One Manager More Reputable Than Another.

We admire companies and this is reflected in our choices as consumers, investors and in other forms of business. But what about the managers that have influenced our own behaviours and performance? Our own reputation? Many times we had no choice, but even then, they influenced us. Even if it was to never to be […]

Important Update : New Dates For Reputation Management Courses

Here are the new dates for my next round of public courses. These courses deal with various aspects of business & personal reputation and can be used as instruments to foster change by increasing knowledge and capacity. Marketing your Consulting Practice 27 April http://marketingaconsultingpractice.invite43.com/ Reputation Defence & Protection (Reputation Risk Mitigation) Masterclass 11 – 12 […]

Powerlines Number 91 now available

The latest edition of Powerlines – Number 91 – The Newsletter for Reputation & Stakeholder Managers is now available for your reading pleasure. The latest edition contains articles such as: Product Recalls are Not for the Weak! No Organisation can State they have no Stakeholders It is better to be prepared Developing an Integrated Reputation […]

A Suggestion Scheme as a Listening Tool

Listening is a key concept in stakeholder management. By listening to your stakeholders you can gather valuable information, plug gaps and design appropriate strategies to maximise relationships and reputation. A Valuable but underutilised tool in many companies is the suggestion scheme. The suggestion scheme can be very useful to pick up hints and ideas to […]

Is your company ready to deal with a Product recall? A Checklist for your convenience

Is your company prepared to deal with a Product recall? Product recalls have the potential to seriously damage your reputation and brand name and can cause distrust amongst stakeholders and possible litigation, especially if it involves aspects of health & safety. In fact a shoddy product recall could results in untimely deaths. The current product […]

Business Reputation Seminars January & February

Thought you might like to see the list of upcoming business seminars from REPUCOMM (me) in the next two months. Managing a consultancy or an organization’s reputation may be the most important asset a CEO and his or her team manages – as a good reputation helps a company to attract business, investors, hire and […]

Ever been stuck in some useless Committee Meeting?

Meetings …a place where they take minutes and waste hours! Meetings…It’s unfair to compare a meeting with a funeral. Funerals have a definite purpose! I am sure you have heard these comments and more. I was going to give some tips and decided against it. This poem just sums it up. The Committee – by […]

Powerlines Number 90 – The newsletter for Reputation & Stakeholder Managers available for download

The 90th edition of Powerlines is now available for download. This newsletter aims to provide you with timely, accurate and useful information to help you build, sustain and protect your organisation’s reputation. Powerlines currently serves more than 8500 international and local readers! It is an opt-in newsletter list and comes at one cost – the […]

No organization can state that they have no stakeholders!

Last week I sent out my Powerlines newsletter Number 90 – a newsletter for Reputation Managers and those involved in stakeholder management. Like any newsletter it always gets its own fair amount of subscriptions and unsubscriptions. However what got me this time was an e-mail from someone that stated the following:’’Your newsletter would be inappropriate […]