Archive
Year: 2020
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COVID-19 impact steers the future of business and stakeholder communications in a different direction
May 11, 2020
As fear and anxiety grip the world in light of the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, we have a chance to make the best of our new reality. The pandemic has radically changed our daily lives and continually challenges our assumptions. It has altered the way we interact and do business. What started as a health problem has morphed into a full-blown human, economic and social crisis. As global economies take a serious knock amid travel bans...
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Celebrating Freedom Day in a time of COVID-19
April 27, 2020
Reflect - On what is important Freedom Day commemorates the first democratic post-apartheid non-racial elections held on April 27th 1994, which saw Nelson Mandela elected as President, and made freedom an inalienable right for all the citizens of South Africa - regardless of race, gender or creed. Today, this symbolic time in our history is being celebrated while the country, and the globe as a whole, finds itself at war with the COVID-19 pandemic. As...
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You’ve been invited to join the group…
April 9, 2020
We’re entering into week three of lockdown. For some it’s almost been a month depending on when your company said to work from home, and boy oh boy, have the group chats exploded! While we’re all adapting to new ways of keeping in touch, mimicking conversations we would have had in the office, it is vital to draw the lines where needed and recalibrate our ways of working and communicating. Here are some guidelines to...
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Connecting in 3… 2… 1
March 24, 2020
Thoughts on conferencing and keeping the flame alive The S&I team at FleishmanHillard, Joburg thrives on close contact banter. We share everything from news and celebrity gossip to song dedications and impromptu brainstorms. We get shushed occasionally because we love to bark the latest updates at each other over our desks. But last week, with all 9 team members sitting in different suburbs across Joburg we attempted to shift our ways of working completely...