Opinion piece by Kim Harrison

Written and posted 15 Nov 2019

If you want a high performing organization, you need to engage and inspire your middle managers. They are the key to employee engagement, according to research conducted for the UK Chartered Management Institute. But middle managers need good lines of communication from top management in order to engage their own staff. Unfortunately, good contact from […]

Written and posted 15 Nov 2019

When you introduce employee recognition activities, whether in your work team, business unit, or in the whole organization, you create the opportunity for major positive results, including measurable improvements in employee engagement and organizational performance. This is not just hopeful thinking about a ‘feel good’ subject – the proof is in the consistent detailed data […]

Written and posted 12 Nov 2019

You can easily stimulate ideas by your team members in four ways – individually and as a group, according to a neuroscience expert. Interviewed for Rotman Management’s Winter 2019 magazine, Michael Platt, Professor of Marketing, Neuroscience and Psychology at Wharton, said that scientists in the past decade have discovered a fundamental neural network in the […]

Written and posted 12 Nov 2019

Television interview of Kim Harrison in 2016, when he was CEO of Crime Stoppers Western Australia, about the seizure of weapons in a drug campaign. A media release quoting him as spokesperson was included with the interview. Recently I wrote an article on using alternative words to “excited” to express happiness in press releases: “Time […]

Written and posted 14 Oct 2019

A well-designed logo can strengthen a brand by creating consumer interest, by differentiating from competitors’ brands, by increasing brand recognition, and by appealing to potential investors. Having worked on the launch or change of various logos during my career, I was interested to recently read a Harvard Business Review article about research on what makes […]

Written and posted 14 Oct 2019

Event management is extremely hectic for even the most experienced professionals. Plenty of things can go wrong when you don’t put a good plan in place. Any little step you can take to make things more efficient goes a long way to making your event a success and creating memorable experiences for attendees. Here are […]

Written and posted 14 Oct 2019

The amount of influence workers have isn’t always reflected in their job titles. You can determine your own informal value to others by reviewing the extent to which people – your top internal stakeholders – help you succeed in your job, and in turn, by what you offer them. Start by listing the top 10 […]

Written and posted 9 Sep 2019

Recent research by Releasd found too many communicators fail to get senior executives to understand the good value of PR, and therefore they don’t have a good opinion of our value. Releasd surveyed 300 senior executives from UK companies with 1,000+ employees, and found: 20% of senior executives didn’t understand what the acronym “PR” means. […]

Written and posted 25 Aug 2019

As a young PR consultant, I helped my colleagues develop promotional material in support of a client who was planning to set up a joint venture to build a glassmaking factory in China for the manufacture of ‘architectural glass’ such as windows for offices and apartments. Our client ACI was a well-established Australian company, and […]

Written and posted 10 Jul 2019

Has a colleague ever said to you: “I started a writing career because I’m hopeless with numbers.”? Many communicators find it difficult to understand, use and write about numbers. Some even admit to entering a writing career so they will avoid dealing with figures. Yet figures are increasingly central to good practice. In addition to […]