by IABCLAAdmin | Aug 17, 2020 | Corporate Communications, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, News
DE&I: The race is on With Farida Habeeb’s provocative blog entry, “Time to do the (Internal) Work,” IABCLA announced our focus campaign on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) as a call to learning and action. On August 5, we launched the campaign with...
by IABCLAAdmin | Jul 12, 2020 | Board News, Corporate Communications, Employee Communication, News, PR, Professional Development
I haven’t been able to watch the recording of George Floyd’s murder. I’ve seen the still images. I’ve read the transcript. It’s been over a month, and I still don’t have the courage. But it’s a courage that, somehow, we expect our Black colleagues to muster every day...
by Deborah Hudson | May 5, 2020 | Corporate Communications, Employee Communication, News, Professional Development
This week’s New Yorker magazine had a riveting article about how coronavirus outcomes varied because of the way doctors communicate in a public health crisis. One sentence jumps out: One of the E.I.S.’s core principles is that a pandemic is a communications emergency...
by IABCLAAdmin | May 4, 2020 | Corporate Communications, Employee Communication, News, Professional Development
By Eli NatinskyIABCLA Vice President / President-Elect What are your experiences working on a team? What makes a team work well? What might get in the way of a team working well? Those are some of the questions IABCLA board member Ephraim Freed asks when he...
by IABCLAAdmin | Apr 9, 2020 | Corporate Communications, Events, News, Professional Development
Managing communications around coronavirus requires a balance of structure and humanity, agree IABCLA members. Last week, we held a “COVID-19 Comms Tactics” webinar where Los Angeles-based professional communicators came together to share insights they’ve gathered...
by IABCLAAdmin | Mar 25, 2020 | Corporate Communications, Employee Communication, News, Professional Development
I am a fan of the virtual workplace. For more than half of my career I’ve worked from home, attached to my team by phone and eventually GoToMeeting and Zoom. Once, when I was not working virtually, my company discovered asbestos in the building and everyone in the...
