Cutting-edge communications for research and policy: How to build your team and map your audiences

Organised by On Think Tanks
Location Online
Start date 15 May 2018
End date

Effective communication is central to being a successful think tank or advocacy group. It is a critical part of shaping policy and practice. To ensuring that research is relevant. That evidence and analysis gets to decision-makers when they need it, and how they need it.

Each unit consists of one two-hour long webinar, a forum discussion and a takeaway resource (such as key points or key tools). Most units also have the option of submitting an exercise for personal feedback.

Join us for Unit 1: How to build your team and map your audiences

Webinar date: 15 May

This unit will:

  • Explain what a ‘communications health check’ is and why it is important for priority setting within your organisations.
  • Teach you the value of audience mapping and some approaches to doing it.
  • Demonstrate how to build a case for communications within your organisations and learn different ways to structure a communications team – even if you only have one or two staff working on communications!
  • Provide an overview of the internal processes and systems you should consider to ensure, legal, consistent and strategic communication.

Facilitators: Carolina Kern and Jeff Knezovich

Exercise: Please note, there is no exercise for this session.


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