When last did you get a request for a communication training intervention? Have you ever given it a thought as to what they mean if they ask : ” Please help us to improve communication?”. Do they mean: Raising awareness among the managers of the importance of improving communications with the employees? Do they mean […]

An article on GreenBiz.com – ”Fortune 50 Lacks Transparency in Web-Based Environmental Reporting raises some really interesting questions”. The article states that the majority of Fortune 50 corporations use the Internet to disclose some information on their environmental performance but most are missing opportunities to involve stakeholders, tap the interactive potential of the web, and […]

I saw a cartoon the other day in which one person said to the other: ” I taught my dog, how to whistle”. The other person then said: ” But I don’t’hear him !, to which the reply was : ” I said I taught him, I didn’t say he learnt it”. This raised a […]

Ah..Ah..! Finally a senior sports person makes a lasting and thought provoking comment. BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Stewart calls on Mosley to quit The best is that it is not just Jackie Stewart but Sir Stirling Moss who said this. He said it would be difficult for Mosley to continue in […]

Fed up with bad service delivery? Shoddy Products? Rude and inattentive staff? Why despair? Every single morning like any well trained PR practitioner should, I scan the local dailies, only to read about some example by an aggrieved customer. But tonight I have a message to customers and other stakeholders. The tools exist to do […]

I just read a very thought-provoking article :  The 21st Century MBA – http://www.strategy-business.com/press/article/08209?pg=3 According to this article my Stakeholder Reputation training seminar is not too far off with the prevalent thinking. ” For the MBA program at Washington State University (WSU), “Stakeholder-Focused Leadership for Sustained Business Success,” launched in the fall of 2007, the […]

The picture above first appeared on the website: http://www.geekarmy.com/geeks/Nasty-Keyboard.html What does your desk look like? Your keyboard? Is your desk a filing cabinet, a trophy case or a museum? Did you know that your desk is not just a worktool, but also a reflection of your work habits? A clean desk falls into a category […]

I just visited a website that scared the daylights out of me. The 10 Deadliest Diseases It certainly makes me shudder and think of whether our authorities are really ready to deal with a pandemic and some of these. And we want to study the water on Mars. What diseases and bacteria do that water […]

Just saw a quote by John Kenneth Galbraith that “Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” Are they really that wasteful? There is often a lot of humour thrown around the issue of meetings. Especially words such as ” It is unfair to compare a Business meeting with a funeral. Funerals have […]

The body that represents Britain’s local authorities has told its members to stop using management buzzwords like stakeholders and sustainable communities, saying they confuse people and prevent residents from understanding what local governments do. The Local Government Association, whose members include hundreds of district, town and county councils in England and Wales, on Friday sent […]