You’ve made it to the upper echelons of management. Congratulations. The chances are you will no longer have to write as many reports for senior managers – you'll assign them to your team to write instead. All you have to do is check them and send them on. By all...
Once, in pre-Emphasis days, I found myself in a training room full of people whose body language told me that they really did not want to be there. They were the communications team for a nearby company. An old friend, and former colleague, had brought me in to run...
I came late to the corporate workplace. I didn’t get what my mum called a 'proper job' until I was in my thirties. I remember the first time I was asked to write a report. I needed to get the senior team to approve funding for a new stream of work. I asked my manager...
So you’ve been asked to write a board report. How does that make you feel? If the answer is joyful or confident, then this article is probably not for you. If, like the rest of us, it makes you a little anxious and uncertain – read on. We've covered the essential...
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Congratulations: you've written your board report. That's the good news. The not-so-good? Well, unless it's only a page or two long, I have to tell you that you're not finished yet. Now you need to write the executive summary: in other words, a condensed version of...
Does this sound familiar? You’ve had a request from your board of directors for an update about something you’re working on. You go back to them for more information about what they want. But they’re busy and their support team just repeats the information you already...
'I’m pregnant.' Words to normally evoke joy (or panic). But the person telling me this good news wasn’t my partner – she was my internal communications manager. I wasn’t a happy parent-to-be, I was a rookie middle manager in a large public sector organisation. My...