Hong Bao Media

Shahril Azuar Jimin weaves a good story in radio interview

22 October 2019 08:15

Weaving a good story in a live radio interview can be tough, but our nominee of the Hong Bao Media Savvy Awards 2019 this week made it look easy.

2020 Foresight: Climate change will force companies to switch to live webcasts

21 October 2019 08:56

Climate change is forcing organisations to rethink how they do business. Instead of sending their executives on overseas trips, companies will be “flight shamed”. But business must go on, so many will turn to live webcasting. But are you ready to get in front of the camera?

"Before I start"... well, you've already started, so just get on with it!

15 October 2019 08:15

Please can we retire "Before I start" from keynote presenters' vocabularies. Fact is, when you say these words, by definition you've already started! Here are some of the most egregious abuses of the phrase. And some replacement options.

2020 Foresight: How to compete with Artificial Intelligence

14 October 2019 08:54

The 2020s will see more smart machines such as house cleaning robots, self-driving cars and autonomous drones. What are the implications for us mere mortals?

To succeed, digital transformation requires a communications transformation

14 October 2019 08:54

So, apparently we're all going to be replaced by machines and Artificial Intelligence. Okay, maybe not so soon. But what can people do better than machines? And isn't it high time we learnt those skills.

Lena Tan provides food for thought on single-use plastic

9 October 2019 11:45

Single-use plastic is a serious climate change hazard, but listeners to Money FM 89.3 were lucky to have Lena Tan explain to them in her radio interview why it is so difficult to reduce plastics.

Goodness gracious! William Wan responded to tough questions with kindness

9 October 2019 11:30

One in four young people refrain from showing kindness in public because they fear being embarrassed or mocked, according to the Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) Graciousness Survey 2019. Our shortlisted candidate for Hong Bao Media Savvy Awards 2019 this week presented the findings on Money FM 89.3.

Dear CEO, here's why you should sack your speech writer

17 September 2019 08:45

If you are senior – or lucky – enough to have a speech writer, it’s time to either change their job description, or to let them go.

Without further ado, please consign this eye-rolling cliché to history

11 June 2019 10:50

Without any further ado, can you please consign this eye-rolling cliché to history. It is now so common for on-stage presenters to wrap their opening or housekeeping remarks with this phrase that my eyes are rolling constantly.

Six communications skills to learn from John Bercow

3 May 2019 08:05

In the whole Brexit chaos, the person who has impressed me the most is the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow. Communications Directors in Asia are unlikely to ever have to control a scrum of journalists like Bercow controls the House. But I have anyway distilled his edicts "from a sedentary position" into a set of learnings for business leaders and communications professionals.

Why senior business leaders can't mouth off like Donald Trump

20 March 2019 08:22

A surprising number of media training participants have asked me why they can't just speak their minds like Donald Trump. They admire his courage to say what he thinks. But while I have some sympathy with the motivation, it does not follow that you should follow Trump's example. Here are six reasons why.

Dear CEO: put the phone down when your staff present to you

13 February 2019 08:38

Recently, a group of your staff came to my TV studio for executive presence training and shared a surprising frustration: when they present to you and the senior leadership team, the hardest thing is to get your attention. The message you are sending your staff when you and the SLT don't pay attention is you don't care – and neither should they. Is that the culture you want in your organisation?

Crisis comms case study: Outgoing Chairman of the National Australia Bank

11 February 2019 08:50

The Chairman and the CEO of the National Australia Bank have quit in the wake of Australia's top level enquiry into its banks – resulting in an interesting case study in crisis communications

The next big trend in content marketing: Going live

29 November 2018 15:14

It's ten years since marketers took to content marketing in a big way, producing credible, thought-leading video content to engage their current and prospective customers, and to drive sales. Now, another trend is ready for the big time: live video webcasts.

Mark Laudi tells it like it is on Brexit, Trump and concerns about overpopulation in Australia

26 November 2018 01:03

No matter how you turn it, Brexit is just a shambles, irrespective of the EU signing off on the separation agreement. Mark Laudi offers candid opinions on this and other news of the day in Jason Dasey's weekly wrap up of the major stories on MONEY FM 89.3.