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Category Archives: development
Have institutions become too far removed from real life?
The decline started before the pandemic and may be linked to the decade of cuts that shrunk public services and pushed them away from local people. In the past two years the situation has deteriorated and lockdowns made access to many things difficult and almost impossible. Continue reading
Posted in challenge, Covid-19, development, police
Tagged levelling up, public services
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Three little words
Throughout the past 12 months there have been so many people that have helped me along the way. A huge amount of support to lift me in the difficult moments and to celebrate successes. It is easy to fail to see this in a busy, fast moving life. Continue reading
Posted in challenge, development, happiness, kindness, learning, Uncategorized
Tagged happiness, learning, meditation
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What me?
Despite being busy, having some amazing clients, receiving great feedback from training and presentations that I do, I still regularly question my ability to be doing what I do. Continue reading
Posted in development, learning, resilience
Tagged communication, imposter syndrome, wellbeing
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What really is freedom?
Crisis messaging needs to be very carefully considered, reviewed, discussed and then revised or used. Continue reading
Posted in challenge, communication, Covid-19, crisis communication, development, PR, Uncategorized
Tagged Covid-19, freedom, freedom day
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Look beyond the surface
We only see the good things that people have in their lives when we are viewing social media, and now the same is happening with our work lives. Everyone else is coping. Everyone else is competent. Everyone else is managing their workload. Everyone else is having a work/life balance and managing things. In reality, we all have our struggles. Continue reading
Posted in development, happiness, resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged imposter syndrome
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Six of the best
A world away from Manchester, England I found myself sat listening to the head of communications for NATO talking about dealing with a crisis this week. It was one of those pinch me moments to make sure I was really … Continue reading
Posted in blogs, communication, crime, crisis communication, development, emergency services, PR, Uncategorized
Tagged business, communication, Crisis, PR, public relations
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Flying high?
There have been some interesting posts and blogs this week talking about diversity and how critical it is for the communication industry, well for any industry really. I was transfixed by the conversation on Twitter on Tuesday about regional accents … Continue reading
Posted in communication, development, PR, society, women
Tagged children, communication, life, PR, public relations
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Saddle up and learn
Learning and developing is essential for us all with whatever we are doing if we are going to improve. Today I spent three hours watching a dressage demonstration with the legend Carl Hester. Don’t worry this isn’t going to be … Continue reading
Posted in #blogtober, communication, development, PR, Uncategorized
Tagged #blogtober, communication, horse, PR, public relations
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A little issue of ethics
Even though I am on a week holiday from work I have still had a few days littered with some key discussions about communication and public relations. The focus has been on ethics and the role communicators should have in … Continue reading
Posted in Chartered Institute of Public Relations, CIPR, communication, development, PR, prca
Tagged communication, Ethics, PR, public relations, reputation
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