Clarifying Values

Last night's meeting and discussion highlighted that some senior managers seem to be confused about corporate values, vision and mission statements, so thought the following might be a useful reference for fellow ICN members:

Corporate values - capture and define the way an organisation does things. ie risk averse or risk takers, conservative or entrepreneurial, pragmatic or creative etc. However to succeed they must be based on reality and be true reflection of the business or organisation. Not to be confused with brand values that are really brand attributes or personal values that are important to people on an individual basis.

Vision statement - a long term vision of what you want your business to be/aspire to in the future.

Mission statement - says what you are going to do to achieve the vision.
Hope this is helpful.

Networking meeting on 12th June at 5.30pm

The agenda for this meeting can be viewed here. Some of you will have attended the PRINZ conference, so, at the beginning of the meeting, we will review the agenda and amend accordingly with regard to what people want to spend the time on.

If possible, please RSVP to help us organise the room set up and volume of nibbles. However, if you have not sent an RSVP and want to come along on the night, you will be most welcome!

For managers: How (and why) to show employees you really don't care all that much – a video clip to brighten the day…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH1MuJcKUJk

I found this hilarious video clip on www.myragan.com.

I’m still evaluating www.myragan.com “Where Communicators meet”. I’ll blog more about this once I have finished my evaluation. It looks really interesting and is definitely worth checking out. Does anyone have any thoughts, experiences or insights they want to share regarding this site?

Networking meeting, 1st May

Thanks to everyone who attended the networking meeting. It was a great opportunity to share some ideas and get together.

The date for the next meeting is 12th June at 5.30. Same venue, same format as it seemed to work.

For the next meeting, it was agreed that everyone should bring an example of an elevator pitch or alternatively a short description of their job for use in the pub (for when people ask ‘What do you do?’). We’ll spend some time sharing and discussing these ‘pitches’.

The notes from tonight’s elevator pitch presentation are available here.
Karen and Geoff will also be presenting the highlights from the PRINZ conference.

Look forward to seeing you on the 12th June.

Kate Ali-Dawson is looking for a couple of talented intermediate internal comms people to join her team, as well as a couple of people to join the intranet team.

A number of the roles will be advertised externally over the coming weeks, and are currently on the BNZ website: https://careers.bnz.co.nz/. Search the careers site using Internal Communications as the key words.

Feel free to pass on Kate's email to anyone you know who might be lookingfor an exciting new comms role. Kate_Ali-Dawson@bnz.co.nz

Networking meeting on 1st May

The draft agenda for the next Internal Communicators networking meeting can be viewed here

Notes from the 20th March 2007 networking meeting

Karen Duncan from ARC has asked me to post the meeting minutes from the Internal Communicators networking meeting. Click here to view them.

If you would like to receive an invite to the next Auckland meeting (1st May at 5.30pm), please email me at sarah.perry@snapcomms.com and I’ll add you to the circulation list.