Strategies & retreats for communicators

If you want to make sure you don't get caught as a company or as a communicator, you need to step back and strategize. You might need a specific communications strategy for a project or initiative; a more far-reaching opportunity to gain perspective and shift your approach to take advantage of what's coming next; or a chance to plan pilot projects to test new communications approaches. Denise Graveline offers those planning opportunities to communications teams and directors with two kinds of services:

• Communications strategic plans that focus on a specific issue, project or initiative, or on matching your communications to your organization's strategic plan; and
• Communications retreats for communications teams or for boards and senior management teams facing major communications challenges. Retreats can focus on skills-building, team-building within your department or with other departments, organizing communications operations, transitions from traditional methods to social media, transitioning a new director with an existing staff, and more.

Planning processes and retreats are unique and customized precisely to your needs. To help you think through what you might want to see, here are some related posts from the blog:

• Planning a communications retreat as if it were a climbing wall
• 10 retreats my clients asked for
• Re-tooling your training in tough times
• Students take the social-media wheel, based on a social media retreat and strategy session for a university client

Graveline has developed communications and social-media strategies and facilitated retreats for a wide variety of clients, from UMBC, Johns Hopkins University, and Harmony, Inc. to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

For more information on a communications strategy or retreat, email info[at]dontgetcaught[dot]biz.