Barilaro and the cultural drift towards ‘what I can get away with’: he and Stuart Ayres may have gone into NSW politics with the noblest…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 16, 2022
What isn’t our new Treasurer, Jim Chalmers doing? He IS using old communication techniques in a new and much more sophisticated communication environment – where…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 1, 2022
It’s an incredible strategy oversight that the NRL’s Sea Eagles bosses didn’t consult their most important stakeholders, the players, on wearing the rainbow stripes. Same…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 29, 2022
Our Friday video raised questions about how to create wellness including the importance of values. I’m not a fan of promoting values. I am a…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 26, 2022
Wellness, sensitivity, privacy – three office needs. There’s dissonance on wellness. As the Australian Federal Parliament crawls towards implementing Kate Jenkins’ ‘Set the Standard’ review…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 22, 2022
Freedom to work where I want!! Are you feeling anxious about where to work? And for leaders, what are the boundaries for staff expecting that…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 15, 2022
From a communication point-of-view, the editorial headline in today’s AFR (13/7/22) is, I think, weird and telling – it’s back to front: “Labor must use…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 15, 2022
How important is it for leaders to effectively communicate a pathway? That’s particularly hard in the current uncertain economic environment. It was the same at…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 6, 2022
I work hard to gain a journalist’s trust. And I find that generally that trust is reciprocated. Like any relationship, there’s a learned contract –…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 4, 2022
Will his communication skills hold him up or tear him down? We learn a lot about communications by watching politicians. Scott Morrison was initially hailed…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 1, 2022
Perhaps this is timely with the census placing mental health front of mind. Without meaning to underplay the complexities in that, is it time for…
Peter WilkinsonJune 29, 2022
Dominic Perrottet. The power of a vision. Might he be a bright spark - the right person for the time? Perrottet’s ‘Big NSW’ announcement was an unexpected vision, with associated reforms…
Peter WilkinsonOctober 26, 2021
Should we have backed off? Is this chest-beating by Australia a dreadful mistake? So far, we’ve been on a steep learning curve trying to understand…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 20, 2021
Measles’ herd immunity occurs at about 95% vaccination rates, will COVID be the same? Is there a nastier mutation after Delta? While some leaders are…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 23, 2021
Thomas Friedman's view on the appalling situation in Afghanistan provides valuable insights. Besides his piece below is an earlier useful piece on 'the morning after…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 22, 2021
Time to leave your job? Pick your reason: · Bad bosses · Rotten culture; my values are different · Burn out; made worse by the pandemic · Too long…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 19, 2021
Guidance Please, from Canberra. For a reason that is unclear to me, the PM is unwilling to lead with clear guidance on vaccinations in the…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 15, 2021
Is Australia about to become a global ‘badboy’ on Climate Change? With an election in 2022, Scott Morrison says he and Barnaby Joyce are coming…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 13, 2021
And should the Federal Parliament, realistically, be guiding us on cultural issues, or is that outside its remit? In which case was the Prime Minister…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 9, 2021
We’re watching the radical disruption of journalism. Is the PR sector missing an opportunity? Disruption creates opportunity, and the lazy person’s option is to simply…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 4, 2021
Is vaccination going to be a requirement before going back to the office? If not, should it be? Are some people going be to denied…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 30, 2021
Investing in #sustainability, its legitimacy, its reputation, is one of the next big corporate affairs challenges. The trend is massive and also rife with 'greenwashing'. The…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 28, 2021
Most advanced economies are now rapidly making the change to electric vehicles. For instance, the EU has just announced what is effectively a ban on…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 26, 2021
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 25, 2021
Crisis PR: Overview During a crisis my m/o is to give journalists as much help as possible; they are doing a tough job under time-pressure…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 13, 2021
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 4, 2021
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonMay 3, 2021
In the second part of this interview, the current Global Chair of Aurecon and strategic advisor to Ashurst lawyers - explains to Peter Wilkinson and Liam Cox how he, working with CEO William…
Peter WilkinsonMay 3, 2021
In 2004, with Giam Swiegers as the CEO of Deloitte, the company was ‘fast losing its membership of the Big Four’, according to the AFR, a…
Peter WilkinsonApril 22, 2021
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonApril 11, 2021
QuickTake #39: Are the Federal Government’s sexual harassment reforms fair dinkum? How much real change will happen in Parliament House, and in businesses across the…
Peter WilkinsonApril 9, 2021
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 28, 2021
Jodie Fox on repairing workplace culture. The Canberra scandals have been met with outrage and shock. What can we learn, practically, about responding to sexual or…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 25, 2021
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 15, 2021
The Royal Commission has delivered 148 recommendations. Kasy is Executive Director at Anglicare Australia and joins Peter Wilkinson and Liam Cox to discuss the importance of better comms to…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 3, 2021
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 1, 2021
Brittany Higgins, a Liberal Party staffer has again highlighted the terrible culture in the Federal Parliament, with disturbing allegations that she was raped in a…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 20, 2021
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 9, 2021
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 20, 2020
What can we learn from the crises in 2020. We focus on three, with four main learnings for leaders and corporate affairs folk: - Rio…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 18, 2020
Communication is the most complex leadership skill – and getting more complex. We rightly have high expectations. CEOs, directors and corporate affairs folks can learn…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 9, 2020
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 7, 2020
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 23, 2020
Joe and Jill Biden, and Kamala Harris, have the potential to take the heat out of the division in the US that's been such a…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 12, 2020
What does the future of journalism in Australia look like? The disruption to journalism in the next twenty years will likely be greater than we’ve…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 9, 2020
We learn a lot about good and bad corporate communications by watching politicians. This week it's been Gladys Berejiklian's struggle explaining her intimate relationship with…
Peter WilkinsonOctober 14, 2020
What have we learnt about working from home? The Australian fantasy - working at the beach - may now, for many, be a reality! Being…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 28, 2020
There's a lot to be learnt from apologies that fail. Apologies are now so common, the public can mostly discern what's genuine. To be perceived…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 3, 2020
The AMP and icare disasters: how many directors are taking an easy ride on the gravy-train of Australia's highest-powered boards? Failures in governance at AMP…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 2, 2020