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If there is one thing public sector communications professionals are frequently criticised for, it is holding ‘sham’ consultation exercises. Usually these accusations spring up when views are being sought over changes to local services – changes to health services for example, or local schools, or bin collections. It is down to the relevant authority’s communications…
Continue readingCommunications professionals employed by the public sector do much more than pump out press releases on behalf of their organisations. Or at least, they should do. Because their job is about much more than just the obvious requirements of the role. Most organisations’ staff look to their press offices with comfortable acceptance that they are…
Continue readingWhen times are hard and money is short, friction and pressure and conflict are often the outcome – whether on the streets of the city, between competitors, among organisations, or among sectors. This is particularly true of the public and private sectors. The interface between the two appears especially tense when public funds are short,…
Continue readingThe thing about creativity and the creative process is that it can all too easily become tangled up in jargon and management-speak, whenever it comes up as a subject for discussion. Thinking out of your box, even as you are pushing envelopes, breaking down barriers or undertaking a brain dump, all make the hackles rise…
Continue readingOne of the more interesting outcomes of the current economic pressures facing the public sector has been the springing up of new organisational models based on the social enterprise idea. David Cameron has been keen to embrace this as part of his Big Society approach, placing social enterprise models at the heart of the Coalition…
Continue readingOur Director Luke Blair’s PR Week column of 30 March has provoked some reaction this week. lukeblair Luke Blair @amandacomms Sorry for misunderstanding Amanda; my point was public sector staff forced to be selfish deserve sympathy! http://bit.ly/fC97GW 16:45, 7 April amandacomms Amanda Coleman @lukeblair thanks see what you mean but it is nature of…
Continue readingEveryone is fighting for themselves out there in the public sector at the moment. Trading on one’s reputation, built up over a career, is the name of the game and, understandably, public sector communications professionals are focusing very hard indeed on selling themselves. Networking events held by any part of the sector – be it…
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