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
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
For businesses, LinkedIn is currently the single most interesting digital platform on the internet. Why? Because right at this moment, there is a remarkable arbitrage of organic…
Isabella DuganOctober 28, 2021
The Coalition’s net zero target for 2050 was a long time coming and should (certainly no guarantees) save the Prime Minister major embarrassment at the…
Nick AlbrowOctober 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Back to the office? Clever comms optimises wellbeing and productivity. It’s a chance to completely review what we do and how: some innovations that may…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 28, 2020
Are our questions being answered on the Coronavirus? Not enough it seems. ScoMo has invested $17bn to support the country, and spoken to us in…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 13, 2020
COVID-19 has thrown up a raft of leadership and corporate affairs issues: how to turn a crisis into an opportunity; ScoMo’s performance; politicians answering journalist’s…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 3, 2020
Trust requires transparency. So what is the likely impact of the Chinese government cover-ups concerning the coronavirus? On top of apparently understating the figures, a…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 13, 2020
What was ScoMo thinking? Ethics seems to have evaporated in Canberra with the Bridget McKenzie scandal. Not a good start to the decade, as the…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 4, 2020
As we move into the difficult, slow and frustrating recovery phase of the Australian bushfire catastrophe, Community Liaison techniques that we've learned from working with…
Peter WilkinsonJanuary 9, 2020
Three lessons for CEOs from watching Prime Minister Scott Morrison's missteps over recent days. Leaders, up-and-coming leaders, and advisors can learn a lot about communicating…
Peter WilkinsonJanuary 6, 2020
Learning from 6 outstanding PR disasters in the last 12 months, we look for the reasons why people at the top of their careers make…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 19, 2019
What can CEOs and Corporate Affairs professionals learn from Westpac’s mistakes? There are more layers to it than simply a lesson from the school-for-slow-learners. Beyond…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 12, 2019
Westpac and Prince Andrew, both damaged by child abuse allegations: What can we learn from the CEO and Board of Westpac's collective failure to act…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 6, 2019
Bushfires, Climate Change, and that Royal Stuff-Up - Should our Government talk about climate change in the middle of catastrophic, deadly bushfires? And, should Prince…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 28, 2019
Learning from Labor's Campaign: CEOs, corporate affairs professionals, and people who simply want to get ahead can learn a lot about issues management and crisis…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 21, 2019
Is ‘Sorry’ overused? Australians, with our healthy level of cynicism, are excellent at spotting a hollow apology. We look for proof of authenticity. So, over…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 14, 2019
Can a CEO today get away with a low profile? We say it's risky! The reputation of a company is increasingly inextricably linked to the…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 4, 2019
Better press freedom means less corruption and a stronger democracy. The campaign on the front page of every paper in the country on Monday is…
Peter WilkinsonOctober 21, 2019
Being interviewed by a journalist and doing it well is hard, and often the stakes are high. A common feeling afterwards is that you’ve failed…
Peter WilkinsonOctober 14, 2019
Trust in business leaders and politicians is low. There are now high expectations on spokespeople to explain themselves and their organisations authentically, clearly and succinctly.…
Peter WilkinsonOctober 8, 2019
What should you do when a journalist calls? Here we briefly discuss the techniques we use, including the 7 critical questions you must ask, to…
Peter WilkinsonOctober 1, 2019
Controversial athlete Israel Folau is attempting to make a comeback to Rugby League after he was sacked for homophobic posts on social media. Can the…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 26, 2019
Still reeling from the election results? Here's what we can learn from it.
Peter WilkinsonMay 24, 2019
Espousing ‘integrity’ or ‘empathy’ to build a company culture is a bit like nailing jelly to the wall: trying to achieve the impossible - no-one…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 27, 2018
Senate inquiries or state parliamentary inquiries can sometimes be the challenging media interview you’ve no doubt been avoiding. Here's how you should handle them.
Peter WilkinsonNovember 7, 2018