Communication is the most complex leadership skill – and getting more complex. We rightly have high expectations. CEOs, directors and corporate affairs folks can learn…
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…
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…
Kylie Moore-Gilbert is still in jail in Iran. Two years on, 'quiet diplomacy' has failed the Australian academic. We contend it's an outdated strategy, flawed…
Can Dreamworld repair its reputation? We say yes, conditionally. This week saw the company, not individuals, charged over the tragedy that killed four people. Liam Cox and Peter…
The shattered trust between European and Indigenous Australians provides lessons in what not to do. Littered with failed outcomes, broken commitments and disappointment, it is…
Former High Court Judge Dyson Heydon is facing shocking allegations of sexual harassment. Liam Cox and Peter Wilkinson dissect the three key communications aspects of…
How do we video-conference better during COVID-19? Liam Cox speaks with Peter Wilkinson and award-winning film maker Fred El Harris, who between them, have over 50-years experience behind and in…
Coronavirus presents a time of unparalleled uncertainty, making it the greatest communications challenge of our time. Calming nerves will be much easier if we think…
Seems the ASX’s draft Corporate Governance Principles has set the cat among the pigeons in corporate Australia. Central to the controversy is the idea of…
Media Training: Overview Photo: Channel 7 News In this now hyper competitive environment, CEO’s must be able communicate on behalf of the company to external…
Social media manipulation, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the allegations of Russian troll farms distorting elections, has brought sharply into focus that people are…
(Peter Wilkinson has been elected Chair of the Global Communications Alliance, an organisation of senior independent public relations and public affairs companies) To be a…
The passionate debate and controversy around 18C, and Bill Leak's cartoon, has made a simple choice appear complex. It’s about free speech, or restricting it,…
Last week we witnessed the unedifying spectacle of Turnbull and Abbott going hammer and tongs at each other, with media commentary emphasising their mutual hate.…
Here’s a different slant on a story that’s been doing the rounds for the last week, about yet more redundancies amongst journalists, with The Independent…
I’m going to call us Public Relations folks Growth, Reputation & Change Activists. Change is the new constant in public relations. Psychologist Kurt Lewin’s “unfreeze-change-freeze”…
Of all the Public Relations skills, how importantly do you rate connecting with people? I’m a great advocate of the concept of Emotional Intelligence, as…
Andrew McIlwain, (former) CEO: "Peter and his team at Etched provided key advice, public relations input and support to Unity during the period we were…
Just completed a trip through Hong Kong and Singapore to meet with other corporate communications and marketing companies. PR in Asia takes different strategies, and Western…
The below article is relevant for people developing leadership skills: those of us who follow elections, out of self-interest, to keep up with current leadership,…
The other 30% is Responsiveness... A study group has analysed the world's top 500 universities and the importance of their websites to student recruitment. It has found…
An example of an organisation's Social Media Protocols for employees: Dear Staff, The Internet has democratised publishing and we recognise how natural it is for…
Two good ‘reads’ to test our values. For CEOs and corporate affairs practitioners interested in core values there have been two noteworthy articles on trust…
This is one of the great dilemmas for corporate affairs practitioners. Journalists hate owning up to making mistakes, but it happens. And the more pressure placed…
With journalists under so much pressure, it’s worth this reminder: do journalists a favour by preparing a press release with TLC. Here’s a handy checklist…
o all of us involved in online relationships, below are four new ‘truths’ for online retailing. But first, we think this article (Cliona O’Dowd, Business…
Old paradigm: A traditional newspaper delivers say one hundred stories, which you filter according to your interests to read a dozen or so. Then, once read,…
Lack of balance, trivialisation, inaccuracy, failure to pursue the truth – the complaints are recycled in every media training session. Here are two wonderful articles…