Podcasts have emerged as the platform for corporate storytelling, but they demand a distinct approach. We have held four workshops for podcasting skills, and these are five key points we hammer down.
I’m thrilled to be announcing the launch of my book "Play to your Strengths when Presenting".
Published by Marshall Cavendish, it is an essential part of all our coaching and training workshops booked from this month.
This book is a culmination of my almost five years as a Gallup-certified Advanced CliftonStrengths® coach, which has proved such an important part of our workshops.
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The HBM studio recently hosted an event with Asia-Pacific Association of Communication Directors (APACD) titled "Deepfake: A Comms Person's Friend or Foe?".
My staff sheepishly forwarded me this video clip from the ABC-TV series "Utopia", but I wasn't offended at all. In fact, this clip highlights many things that are wrong with the traditional way of media training.
Media entrepreneur Ted Turner famously said, “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.” Personal brand building takes more time and effort than most busy professionals have. The problem for many subject matter experts is they can’t pursue it without some limitation. But how can you overcome these obstacles? READ more
If you are worried about losing your job to AI there is only one way you can come out on top: Be the best human you can. Rapidly advancing AI technology has already proven that its development is unstoppable. So we humans have two choices.
The changes in the workplace were on full display in Omaha/Nebraska, the venue for the Gallup@Work 2023 conference. I wondered where all the people were. My Uber driver explained many people were still working from home. But how do you do that when staff are not physically in the workplace? How do you engage them when they’re not around?
A strong corporate culture is probably more easily attained than you think. But unsurprisingly, communication is often what stands in the way. Insights from the Gallup@Work 2023 conference in Omaha/Nebraska last week.
Communications Directors are looking for new resources and new approaches to avoid being hit by embarrassing allegations of greenwashing, according to panellists and participants at the APACD event at the Hong Bao Media studio on Thursday May 11.
Organisations can now ensure their sustainability initiatives are not vulnerable to embarrassing allegations of greenwashing, through Hong Bao Media’s new sustainability communications advisory service titled ‘Greenwash-proof your Sustainability Communications’. It sharpens the way organisations publicise their sustainability initiatives, as NGOs subject them to intense scrutiny for greenwashing.
The Sustainability Communications advisory service helps companies to stay clear of greenwashing and to effectively communicate its commitments and contributions to stakeholders. It combines an expert forensic review of a company’s Sustainability Report, messaging guidance as well as communications skills coaching for senior management.
The Sustainability Communications advisory service helps companies to stay clear of greenwashing and to effectively communicate its commitments and contributions to stakeholders. It combines an expert forensic review of a company’s Sustainability Report, messaging guidance as well as communications skills coaching for senior management.
Sometimes your spokespeople are going to get a number of questions which are not healthily critical, but downright aggressive. Like Australian opposition leader Anthony Albanese during a press conference in Perth last Tuesday.
The fallout from SPH Media’s disclosure that circulation numbers of Singapore’s major daily newspapers have been artificially inflated by between 10% and 12% continues, with netizens calling on the identities of staff reprimanded over the matter to be disclosed.
If you have a fear of being underprepared that you start to get the shivers, break out in sweaty palms or your heart starts pounding, you might be surprised about the cause - and its solution.
It’s hard to believe five years have passed since we convened the Media Savvy Awards, but each of those years brought fundamental changes to the media. As the deadline for the 2022 Awards looms, it’s an opportune moment to take in the key themes in the evolution of the media landscape and the role of spokespeople, and the consequent evolution of the Award categories.
Media Savvy Awards launches Trailblazer Elevator Pitch Award to encourage entrepreneurs and start-up founders to tell their business stories on camera
Comments about the holocaust by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at a press conference in Berlin Wednesday have sparked an outcry – and raise the question how you as a Communications Director and your business leader should react if confronted by a similar situation.
Der Eklat in Kanzler Olaf Scholz’ Pressekonferenz mit Mahmoud Abbas vergangenen Mittwoch konfrontiert uns im Kommunikationswesen mit zwei schwierigen Fragen: wie hätten Ihre Führungskräfte anstelle Scholz die Situation bewältigt? Und wie hätten Sie anstelle Regierungssprecher Hebestreit reagiert, wenn Sie die Pressekonferenz geleitet hätten?
Three winners, chosen from over 100 nominees, jointly win the award for Best Broadcast Interview Awards to recognise local senior business leaders for sophisticated media and communications skills Awards supported by the Dubai chapters of the Asia Pacific Association of Communications Directors (APACD), and the Public Relations Communications Association (PRCA)