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Effectively managing up

Daniel Arias The Centre recently hosted a professional development webinar on good practices in managing up. The webinar was hosted by Centre Director Wayne Burns and Robert Hadler, former General Manager of Corporate Affairs at Coles Limited and NAB. The speakers accentuated the importance of maintaining amiable...

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The Centre’s Top Five Public Affairs Predictions for 2016

Wayne Burns The start of a New Year turns many a businessperson’s mind to their career and business trajectory for the next 12 months. As we have done in past, the Centre has collated what it predicts will be some of the likely big developments in corporate public affairs 2016 (a summary of our 2015 Top Predictions is listed...

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Centre for Corporate Public Affairs to probe corporate community investment in national research on ‘giving’

Wayne Burns I am excited to let you know that the most detailed contemporary research into business ‘giving’ in Australia – including corporate community investment – will be conducted by the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs as part of the Giving Australia 2015 report, commissioned by the Federal Government. The contract to...

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Making strategy real – the Famous Five

Wayne Burns The road to implementing corporate public affairs strategy in the face of the constant headwinds of a dynamic business environment are littered with good intentions. The Centre’s 2015 State of Australian Public Affairs reports, encouragingly, that about 40 per cent of corporate public affairs management functions...

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Tips for managing public affairs across borders

George Onisiforou The Centre recently held a webinar on good practices in managing international affairs across borders. The webinar profited from the insights offered by two guest speakers: Peter Eggleston, General Manager Policy, Government and Public Affairs, at Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production, and Joe Fong, the...

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Five trends in 2015 that will change public affairs

Wayne Burns Straight out of the starting blocks for 2015, we are sharing five trends the Centre has identified will be writ large in the corporate public affairs management function in 2015, and that we recommend you watch. These trends will affect how the public affairs function is managed, and how you and your colleagues...

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Managing Public Affairs suppliers and agencies

George Onisiforou The Centre recently hosted a professional development webinar on good practices in managing public affairs suppliers and agencies. The webinar, led by Centre Director Wayne Burns, benefitted also from insights by two guest speakers: Lizzy Geremia, Head of Internal Communications at BUPA, and Brett Zarb, Group Media...

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Corporate Public Affairs and Project Management

Wayne Burns An oft underestimated capability residing in the corporate public affairs function is project management. Hardly among the most glamorous of business capabilities, good project management is a common characteristic across almost all of the best practice public affairs teams we have observed over many years. ...

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The human media

George Onisiforou A study by the US based Pew Research Centre challenges the perception of social media as a platform for dynamic political discussion and debate. The study explored whether social media can produce different enough...

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Which way will Weibo go?

Wayne Burns, Director Centre for Corporate Public Affairs China's micro blogging platform Sina Weibo, a phenomena whose echo chamber frequently targets foreign companies, often in campaigns and memes initiated by shady and commercially self interested bloggers (sometimes with opaque support of the State), is in a funk. Weibo has fallen foul of the Chinese Communist Party...

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