To Achieve Your Goals You Need To Keep Things Simple
I am a freelance communication consultant with over 20 years experience who believes in keeping things simple.
To achieve your goals you need your target audiences to behave in a particular way. Presuming you have the right products and services in place I can help you by developing an effective communication strategy, rooted in a sound understanding of the context.
I’ll then roll my sleeves up and deliver the results.
The first step is to get the messages right. While the essence of what you say must be consistent and reflect reality, you need to change the emphasis depending on who you are talking with.
The explosion of new technology has changed the way people engage. They want a dialogue, to be heard; if they feel talked at, at best they’ll switch off and at worst they’ll turn against you.
So getting the tone right is just as important as using the best channel, be it Facebook, the media or a public meeting.
My Services
- Communication strategy
- Media relations
- Crisis management
- Copywriting
- Internal communication
- Project management
By working with me you will have a natural problem solver on your side; someone who has developed and run communication programmes in a variety of sectors, managed crises and provided a sounding board for senior executives.
Your Communications Resolution
Every January we make resolutions, tempted by the potential of a fresh new year. Last January I said I would do the Two Castles Run. Not being a natural runner I quickly doubted the sense of my decision but having made it publicly I couldn’t turn back.
If you’re in the mood for resolutions there is one I urge every business leader to make and stand by throughout 2015; commit to effective communication.
Commit to effective communication
Attracting potential new customers with appealing marketing boosts sales while an engaged and motivated workforce will drive up productivity. So getting internal and external communication right makes good commercial sense.
But too often each is considered in isolation, the coherence and consistency of the messages never being part of the planning process. This might seem okay but it doesn’t maximize the potential and there is a real risk of undermining your own efforts.
Trust is key to every good working relationship
But an employee contradicting an external message to a customer, however lightly, will damage that customer’s trust and if employees see you tell half-truths to customers they can’t be confident you’re being straightforward with them. And re-building trust is a great deal harder than making sure you don’t lose it in the first place.
Be consistent, coherent and straightforward in your communication
This doesn’t mean you have to gush the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth all the time! But it does mean you need to be consistent, coherent and straightforward in your communication.
A simple audit of your internal and external messages and processes will make sure that what you are saying resonates internally and externally and so is driving forward your top and bottom lines.
If you would like a communication audit, contact Cathy Connan of Communication Strategy on 07976 669089 or email cathy@cathyconnan.com.