A two day workshop for communication managers and officers working in social service sector. They were led through step zero: crafting corporate strategy to step ten: developing communication strategy, designing an innovative programme, publicising it via the mass media.
3. Today and 27 June, we:
• Design
• Plan
• Implement
• Evaluate
Corporate communication strategies together,
by employing exercise, game, group
discussion, role play
4. Corporate strategies
1. A broad strategy for the whole organization
and an operational strategy for each activity
2. Communication strategies between all levels
have to be consistent
• Who is the bridge between 1 and 2?
• Corporate communication function
7. Targets
• New arrivals from Mainland
• Southern Asians residing in HK
• People with emotional problems
• People with health problems
8. Human resources
• 300 staff: half professionals; half front line
• 30 staff: 10 professionals; 20 front line
• 10 staff: all management; other work
outsourced
• One CE, nine advisors who are volunteers;
other work outsourced
9. Financial support
• All funding are obtained on individual project
basis
• All funding come from donation
• All funding are from investor
• All funding are from own business
11. Before we
• Design and plan
• Implement
• Evaluate
Corporate communication strategies together,
by employing exercise, game, group
discussion, role play
12. Preparation stage
• Design the name for the organization
• Develop the mission of the organization
• Develop an organization profile (internal
condition and capability)
• Develop organization image and brand – its
identity
21. “Life is a continuous exercise
in creative problem solving.”
-Michael J. Gelb
22. Preparation stage
• Design the name for the organization
• Develop the mission of the organization
• Develop an organization profile (internal
condition and capability)
• Develop organization image and brand – its
identity
25. These are Top Ten Global Brands in 2009
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Source: Interbrand
1. Coca-Cola 68,734 ($m)
2. IBM 60,211 ($m)
3. Microsoft 56,647 ($m)
4. GE 47,777 ($m)
5. Nokia 34,864 ($m)
6. McDonald's 32,275 ($m)
7. Google 31,980 ($m)
8. Toyota 31,330 ($m)
9. Intel 30,636 ($m)
10. Disney 28,447 ($m)
Brand value in USD
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28. NGO brands?
• Global NGOs like Amnesty International and
World Wildlife Federation score higher than
Microsoft and Coca-Cola
Tracked by Edelman PR
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29. Why?
• It is not just the ads
• When you pursue your customers, you
embrace a world of CONVERSATION and
LISTENING, not just guessing and talking
• You develop a long-term relationship with
your customer and BRAND lover
• Which local brand do you recall
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32. • Emotions and ideas associated with a product
• Things real or perceived
• Rational or emotional
• Physical or sensory
• Thought or felt
• In form or function
Customer experience Market perception
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33. Successful brands are
• Credible, meaningful, unique, holistic,
sustainable, clear, consistent
• Determined and owned by your customers
when they evaluate their experience with you
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34. Exercise I - Preparation stage
• Design the name for the organization
• Develop the mission of the organization
• Develop an organization profile (internal
condition and capability)
• Develop organization image and brand – its
identity
35. By now, you have:
• Designed the name for the organization
• Developed the mission of the organization
• Developed an organization profile (internal
condition and capability)
• Developed organization image and brand – its
identity
• You enter the communication strategies
formulation stages
37. Design stage
• Assess the external environment, in terms of
competitive and contextual factors
• Analyse possible options uncovered in the
matching of the organization profile with the
external environment
• Identify desired options in the context of
organization mission
38. • Assess the external environment, in terms of
competitive and contextual factors
• Use SWOT analysis
39. SWOT TECHNIQUE
SWOT Analysis is a simple but powerful
framework for analyzing your company's
Strengths and Weaknesses, and the
Opportunities and Threats you face. This
helps you to focus on your strengths,
minimize threats, and take the greatest
possible advantage of opportunities
available to you.
41. By now you have:
• Assessed the external environment, in terms
of competitive and contextual factors
• Next, you develop options (solutions)
42. Options
• Analyse possible options which match the
organization profile with the external
environment
• Identify desired options in the context of
organization mission
48. • Find any one thing in this room in straight
lines is changed into non straight lines, what
improvements in life / work / relations … can
we get?
• Can you draw that out?
Exercise IV
49. Exercise V - Which of the following figure is
most different from others?
50. We need to:
• Think outside the box
• Develop elasticity
• Develop flexibility
Develop visual thinking (creativity) skills
51. Exercise VI: Now you:
• Analyse possible options uncovered in the
matching of the organization profile with the
external environment
• Identify desired options in the context of
organization mission
52. You have a list of options, next you
implement them
60. Working with local organizations /
structures
• Identify structure, scope of work,
people’s rank and responsibilities
• Access to higher decision making
positions
• Use appreciation before threat
61. Working with local organizations /
structures
• District Councillors
• Familiarise with the funding procedure
and programmes likely to be funded
• Get into the sub-committees
• Issues: keep neutral, seek alliance
65. Now, you have:
• An organization with name
• With mission and identity
• Which will carry out programme for targets ,
with stakeholder list and tasks developed
• Enhance and polish them, after the following
two cases …
66. 66
Case I
In 2006, someone
wanted a set of
traffic lights
installed in
Causeway Bay
67. A developer wants to have a set of traffic
lights installed in front of its commercial
building
To increase pedestrians and customers flow
Overview
68. Junction of Yee Wo Street and
Pennington Street, Causeway Bay
70. What did the PA
consultancy do?
• Research: who else may be benefited from the
traffic lights?
• Who are inconvenienced by no traffic lights?
• Who will object to the traffic lights?
• Traffic / transport consultant + PA consultancy
• Proposal submitted to TD
• No / mediocre response received from TD
• Then what?
• Liaison / lobby
• With whom?
71. Liaison / lobbying targets
• TD
• District Council and relevant sub-
committee
• Rehabilitation groups and disabled
individuals
72. On-going challenges
• Change of personnel in TD
• Bus companies’ objections
• Reaction of rehabilitation groups,
individuals?
• District Council’s support?
• A lengthy process
73. Outcome – after long and
persistent lobby, basing on
the community relations built
• TD submits proposal to DC sub
committee
81. Case analysis
• The initiator is for commercial purpose
• The government can make use of
(engage) one stakeholder (PA consultant)
to lobby other stakeholders (District
Council and disabled groups)
• Develop options which lead to win-win
outcome
84. Children’s Cancer Foundation
• Established in 1990
• Serves 250 new cancer child patients (family) each year
• Runs a head office, a family centre, a respite centre, a
hostel, provides children cancer service in 5 public
hospitals
• Revenue reaches 20mil+
• Receives donation 1mil+ each month
• Spends about 1mil+ each month
• Never conducts direct fundraising activities
• Has started advocated a Children Hospital since 2005
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85. Children’s Specialist
Hospital
• June 2005 - A proposal on a Children’s
Specialist Hospital in HK
• December 2005 – Children’s Specialist
Hospital stakeholder survey summary report
(during which many groups were met, liaised,
lobbied, engaged)
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86. Present situation
• 150,000 admissions
• 24% (36,000) need specialised treatment
• Roughly 23,000 children with serious diseases
like cancer, blood diseases, congenital
anomalies, complex syndromes
• Current services are split over 13 sites which
were not designed with children in mind
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87. Proposal
• World-class public and private partnering and
research institute that meets the future needs
of children with serious illnesses
• High-quality specialised services to public
patients within current expenditures
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88. • 350 beds
• Child and family friendly environment
• Public/private professional working arrangement
• Location
• Research and training
• Independent foundation
• Costs and funding
88
89. Challenges in communication
Four million population needs one CSH
Present service: fragmented, not tailor made
Impact of better health programmes to prevent
diseases
Development and application of technologies
Changing disease patterns in children
× Shrinking child population
× Shift to same day, ambulatory and home care
× Enhancement in the transport and communication
networks
× Opposition from medical profession 89
90. • 2005 – 2007 Stakeholders engagement
campaign
• Stakeholders: Exco, Legco, government
officials, public listed companies chairmen,
medical profession: public and private, NGOs,
parents
• 2007 Policy address
• 2018 Opening
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97. Now, you have:
• An organization with name
• With mission and identity
• Which will carry out programme for targets ,
with stakeholder list and tasks developed
98. Next, design media activities to
promote your programme /service.
Before that, you need to know
their dynamics
123. Evaluation stage
• Review and evaluate the success or strategic
campaign processes to serve as control and
bench mark for future decision making
• Use a media occasion as evaluation tool
125. Exercise VIII: Prepare three key
messages (basing on the programme /
service you design), and Q/As for the
following:
• Press conference
• Press interview
• Radio interview
• TV interview
141. Conclusion: Corporate and
communication strategies revisited
• In order to achieve the options, long term
objectives and strategies have to be in place
• Annual objectives and short term strategies
that are compatible with long term objectives
and strategies have to be in place
• Ethical considerations have to be incorporated
into the decision-making cycle
142. Corporate and communication
strategies
• Why do you need to communicate?
• What to communicate?
• Who to communicate?
• To whom?
• When to communicate? How often?
• Where to communicate?
• How to communicate?
Good Morning, Mr. Low and Mr. Li. My name is HONG Wing, you can call me Horace. I’m glad to have this opportunity to give a presentation in the Professional Assessment for the Chartered Status in Civil Discipline of The HKIE. The topic of my presentation is “Traffic Impact Assessment in Wan Chai South Area.”
3 steps of Preparation Go over in your mind the sort of questions you would least like to answer Envision the headline Prepare the messages and facts to realise the envisioned headline
3 steps of Preparation Go over in your mind the sort of questions you would least like to answer Envision the headline Prepare the messages and facts to realise the envisioned headline
Delivering key messages is the main (and only) job of a spokesperson You deliver, reporters (may) get. If you don’t , they pick and choose . Craft the headline your want to see, write your own quote (sound-bite)
Visuals speak louder than words, but sound-bites help The studio can be an uncomfortable place Don’t refuse make-up Dress properly, adjust your shirt, suit or skirt Only safe when you put off your mic and leave the studio 視覺事實勝於雄辯,但聲音叮咬説明 錄影廠可以是一個不舒服環境 不要拒絕化妝 衣著整齊,調整襯衫,西裝或裙子 唯一安全的,當你把你的話筒,離開了演播室 冷靜 不要讓你的眼神徘徊,直視採訪者 不要擺弄你的領帶,鈕扣,或手指,不要劃傷你的身體! 坐姿端正(背靠椅子) 手部動作將有助於一個點,並提請注意
Get attention and mind the time Always get out the key points up front (Grasp attention, easy for editing) Answers should not be too long When it’s live, use the last answer well The use of “Yes/No” and silence Use your voice Raise it, speak up ! Be conversant, but don’t mumble 引起別人注意注意時間 總是出前面要點(掌握的注意,編輯簡單) 答案不能太長 當它的生存,使用以及最後的答案 的“是 / 否“,用沉默 用你的聲音 提高聲音 要精通,但不咕噥
Get attention and mind the time Always get out the key points up front (Grasp attention, easy for editing) Answers should not be too long When it’s live, use the last answer well The use of “Yes/No” and silence Use your voice Raise it, speak up ! Be conversant, but don’t mumble 引起別人注意注意時間 總是出前面要點(掌握的注意,編輯簡單) 答案不能太長 當它的生存,使用以及最後的答案 的“是 / 否“,用沉默 用你的聲音 提高聲音 要精通,但不咕噥
Why: corp image. What: content. Who: spokesman. To whom: stakeholders list and relations. When: plan, schedule. Where: channels, method. How: open, accountable, transparent