News and views

31 October 2016 | 1 min read

Making great records was once the only thing that mattered to musicians and their fans, until the Internet came along, explains SenateSHJ’s Sam Prescott.

Metallica was the first great love of my life, but it’s a relationship that’s endured some very quiet years.

20 October 2016 | 1 min read

Oliver Ibbetson recently attended PRINZ and Internal Communicators Network forum on internal communications. He shares four of the key themes that emerged from the discussions.

19 October 2016 | 3 min read

The pharmaceutical industry is undergoing significant change, at structural, strategic, process and individual levels.

19 October 2016

Una hirundo non facit ver*

Labour may have been chirping in Parliament about its success at the local body elections – and all credit where it’s due – but there’s only one poll that matters, and that’s still about a year away.

17 October 2016 | 2 min read

8 September 2016 | 1 min read

Being purposefully vague is an oft-used political tactic.

A detail-light approach can be used to bide time, mask a disagreement or test public opinion, and it is often used to great effect by our elected leaders and candidates for political office.

2 September 2016 | 2:15 min read

What do you do more of — listen or talk? And when you are listening, do you hear what the other person is saying or do you hear what you want to hear to inform your next response?

25 August 2016 | 1:45 min read

Last year, SenateSHJ’s Government Relations team was invited to contribute a chapter to Public Affairs: A Global Perspective*, an academic work comparing approaches to public affairs around the world.

25 August 2016 | 2 min read

Two recent high-profile scandals, leaving those at the centre out-of-pocket and with their reputations in tatters, have reinforced the keystone of good crisis management: tell the truth, tell it all, tell it fast.

19 August 2016 | 1:45min read

There, I’ve said it. I’m starting to feel better already

Not that it is an unusual addiction, mind you. In a recent witty Washington Post article, one writer describes rising on his first perfect Paris vacation morning, café and croissants exactement how he likes them, only to first compulsively fire up the laptop to read what Trump said overnight.