Comms Leaders Tag

by Steve Marinker, Head of Corporate at Powerscourt Five tips for getting it right The deadline for submitting Gender Pay Gap data is just four weeks away, but according to the Financial Times only one in six companies had uploaded its data to the Government portal by last weekend, meaning there is likely to be an almighty last-minute scramble. Plans for communicating Gender Pay Gap data are likely to be well advanced, but Powerscourt has prepared this short primer to help businesses fine tune, or at least sense-check, their thinking. 1. Gender Balance The revelation that female BBC news presenters are paid less than their male counterparts has routinely, but wrongly, been described as an example of the Gender Pay Gap. Most companies that have reported so far have been at pains to point out that the Gender Pay Gap has nothing to do with equal pay, but that hasn’t stopped the two terms being conflated. By...

Vicki featured in The Communications Agency's 'Who's Who Wednesday' article in November: a weekly profile about who's who in internal communication. Here is a taster: Tell us a bit about your role: I’m one of the four partners at Comms Leaders. We’re a specialist recruiter for the corporate communications industry. We connect exceptional talent with our clients the old fashioned way, through building relationships. What’s on your internal comms agenda right now? I’ll answer this from the point of view of a third party - as we don’t have our own internal comms agenda, but can see what’s important to the industry. Internal comms professionals need to be all-rounders these days. They need to understand business and the impact of good (and bad) communications on the bottom line; they need to be at the forefront of the digital revolution; and they need to be strong relationship builders and influencers. The market demands really strong...

Is the corporate communication profession doing enough to encourage inclusion and diversity? This was the title of an event it was our privilege to host last week. Numerous studies, such as this one from the Harvard Business Review show how companies with employees from diverse age groups, ethnic and social backgrounds, physical abilities, gender and sexual orientation are more likely to outperform their industry competitors. They are more likely to be able to anticipate trends, adapt to change and innovate. Yet we know that many of our clients struggle to replicate the diversity of the population within their organisations. We recognise that we at Comms Leaders have a part to play as gatekeepers for talent within the communications profession. So we brought together a panel of experts to discuss the issues and provide us with examples of good diversity and inclusion in their workplaces. Our panellists were: Charlotte Butler, Founder of Altogether Different, our chair ...

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