Archive for September 2020
How to identify essential leadership gaps in your organisation
There is no shortage of tools and frameworks available for analysing the leadership skills gap in your organisation. But a leadership skills gap – like so many people challenges – can take many different forms. In this post, we look at three examples that offer some insights and ideas for tackling the leadership skills gap at an individual…
Read MoreIs print media making a comeback?
Print media is dead. Or at least, that’s what we’re constantly being told. However, signs in the last couple of years suggest print might be experiencing something of a renaissance. Print magazines reached 12,477,000 Australians last year, up 0.8 per cent compared with 2015, according to research from Roy Morgan. With big digital names such…
Read MoreAR – what is it and how can communication professionals use it?
Augmented reality (AR) is starting to become important not just as a games platform but in communication as well. With revenue forecasts from virtual reality (VR) and AR set to be worth $120 billion by 2020, according to Digi Capital, we thought it would be a good idea to give you the lowdown on what AR…
Read MoreHow to combat sensationalism in communication
We are living in an increasingly sensationalist world. With things like clickbait (a news story with an enticing headline that often has no relevance to the article that follows it) and misreporting by the media becoming a standard part of our everyday lives, we think it’s important to investigate what the new trend for sensationalism…
Read MoreWhat can communication professionals learn from the Fyre Festival disaster?
The much-hyped Fyre Festival descended into chaos within hours of guests arriving in April, in what the complainant in a law suit filed against the festival organisers described as a “hunger games” like situation. So, what lessons can be learnt from Fyre Festival? What was Fyre Festival? The festival was put forward as a luxury…
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