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Employee Engagement Group: Chat and Connect – Developing Professionally For Communicators


Date

23 Sep 2021

Time

17:00

Location

Details

Summary:

Webinar Zoom Event

PRCA Chat and Connect – Developing Professionally For Communicators

Event Type: Group Event

Event Overview

As usual, we’re pulling together a stellar panel of experts to get the conversation going.

Recruiter Sara Tehrani of VMA will be on hand to talk about the skills that recruiters are looking for and the types of people who are making waves in our profession.

Coach and consultant Richard Baines of the Amber Group will be telling us about the development options he’s seeing people go for.

Chicago based consultant Charlie Miller will be talking about the competencies which organisations are looking to include in their comms functions drawing on his recent experiences working with some of the biggest firms and his many years at the helm of Boeing’s comms operations.

If that whets your appetite for learning we’ll also have special guests along to talk about how you can grow your own skills and make a bigger impact – more details to follow!

#ChatAndConnect is run by the PRCA’s Employee Engagement Group and is hosted on Zoom by Annabel Dunstan of Question And Retain and Liam FitzPatrick of Donhead Consulting. The aim is to have some informal chatter about a relevant issue with some invited experts and all our attendees. It’s always informative and never dull.
It’s free and you don’t have to be a PRCA member to join in the fun. 

Biogs:
Sara Tehrani joined VMAGROUP in 2013 as a researcher and progressed to the role of Managing Consultant, leading the UK Permanent Internal Communications team at VMA:  the international search and recruitment specialist for communications and marketing.

Richard Baines is a director and founder of The Amber Group, a consultancy that helps creative service businesses and corporate communications teams to grow and develop. Since starting The Amber Group 2003, Richard has delivered training and coaching programmes to over 100 creative service agencies including Freuds, BCW, Hanover and Porter Novelli and many corporate clients including Microsoft, ITN, Farfetch and Accenture.

Earlier in his career, Richard spent 15 years as a PR and Communications Consultant, working for some of the largest and fastest-growing brands in a variety of sectors including technology, corporate and B2B. Increasing involvement in internal communications; HR and operations, saw Richard transition into the field of Human Resource Management, Training and Development in early 2000 before forming The Amber Group three years later. Richard is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a certified coach and facilitator and an accredited Insights Discovery™ Practitioner.

Charlie Miller brings decades of global experience as a senior communications leader helping major companies and organisations to grow their business in more than 40 markets and successfully navigate reputation issues, challenges, and crises.

A highly regarded communications professional, award-winning journalist, and senior consultant with Tantalus Group, he led aerospace giant Boeing’s highly diverse international communications team including 20 different nationalities, with the mission to support global business growth and protect the company by optimising reputation and mitigating risk.  Charlie was instrumental in introducing programs that developed the communicators of tomorrow globally.

Prior to Boeing, Charlie jointly led Corporate Media Relations as Head of News at Europe’s biggest defence company BAE Systems building on a 20-year career as a journalist, primarily covering Foreign Affairs and Defence for the UK national news agency, the Press Association. He reported extensively from conflict zones, including the 1991 Gulf War and the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. He was awarded “UK Scoop of the Year” for breaking the news of the death of Princess Diana in 1997.
 

Zoom links will be sent out to all attendees 24 hours prior to the event start time. If you sign up after this time, please contact kyrie.abrahams@prca.org.uk for the link.

This event is worth 15 points in the PRCA CPD Programme.