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Category Archives: Workshops
Visible leadership
I’m sure many of you have watched the hit comedy series The Office in either its UK or US versions. If you haven’t, let me tell you that is one the most embarrassingly funny satires of office life that you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, African entertainment, African marketing, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal brand, Internal Communication, The Brand Inside, Workshops
Tagged Business, CEO, Leadership, Satirises, UK, US
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Controlled growth
When you start a Company, you begin with a small group of colleagues. Initially hired for the technical abilities the business needs. But soon, through departures and hirings, you find yourself surrounded by a group of like-minded people. The non-aligned … Continue reading
Join the dots
Sometimes a company’s website bears little relation to its business purpose. In the third decade of the online age this is disappointing. It suggests that online activity is not central to the enterprise, when it has to be. Those of … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Chris Harrison Africa, The Brand Inside, Workshops
Tagged Cabling networks, Commercial portal, Company, Culture change., Digital, IT Department, Market, Online, Online marketing, Online pamphlet, technology, website
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The bureaucratic condition
Working in organisational transformation certainly produces some home truths. The latest for me has been realising how deeply bureacracy resonates with human beings. I mean as a default behaviour, especially in times of stress. In employees, stress is routinely caused … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Corporate Social Responsibility, Culture change, Internal brand, Internal Communication, Local Brands, Machine and human, Marketing Strategy, Millenials, Social marketing, Social Media, The Brand Inside, Workshops
Tagged Behaviour, brand delivery, Bureaucratic, CEO, Change programmes, Colleagues, committees, Communicate., Company, Corporate, Customers, Employees, Job, Marketing team, Millennial, Organisational transformation, teambuilding
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Branding post-merger
After two decades of progress and innumerable calamities, the supermarket category in East Africa is again in flux. This time the highly professional retail brand Carrefour is coolly selecting the best growth opportunities from the wreckage of the supa-duka boom. … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Behaviour change, Billboards, Brand Marketing, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Current affairs, Internal brand, Local Brands, Machine and human, Social marketing, The Brand Inside, Workshops
Tagged Aldi, Asda, Brand architecture, branding, east africa, German, Lidl, Market, Mission, Sainsbury’s, supermarket, UK, Values, Vision
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Understand brain capacity
I was listening to a CEO address her team on their execution of the brand strategy; and what began quite reasonably turned into a repetitive rant. I’ve seen it before, so many times. So afterwards I asked why she felt … Continue reading
Posted in Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal brand, Social marketing, Talent Development, The Brand Inside, Workshops
Tagged Audience, Behavioural profiling, Brain capacity, Brand strategy, CEO, Computer, Employees, Hardware, ICT, leadership team, Microsoft
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Employees need to fit your culture
Amid the general wailing and gnashing of teeth that surrounds the Millennial discussion, one occasionally happens upon something sensible. I’ve been reading about how the online entertainment brand Netflix sets expectations for employee contribution. It’s surprisingly hard line; and contains … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Branded behaviours, Culture change, Local Brands, Social Media, The Brand Inside, Workshops
Tagged Accountability, Africa, brand, Companies, Culture, Economy, Employees, Employers, entertainment, Future, Innovation, Integrity, Leadership, Millennial, Netflix, Online, Organisational cultures, Transparency, Value statements
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China the Brand
Last week I was working in Lusaka, although quite frankly I could have been in Beijing. I stayed in a 5-star Chinese Hotel and used its impressive Congress venue. The place was ultra-modern and as clean as a whistle. Everything … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Global Brands, Internal brand, Machine and human, The Brand Inside, Workshops
Tagged Administration, African continent, America, Beijing, brand, Brand Finance, Business, CEO, China, Commercial diplomacy, Congress, Countries, Economic, Government, Hotel, Indian Ocean, Investor, investors, Journalist, Lusaka, Macroeconomic, People, Tourists, World, Year, Zambian
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Diversity can produce dividends.
Recently I was with a large group of staff discussing the positive aspects of their work culture. They were emphatic about one thing: ‘We are a very diverse group.’ Indeed, there were men and women, old and young, Asian and … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, African ingenuity, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Direct marketing, Internal brand, Internal Communication, Market Research, Marketing Strategy, Talent Development, The Brand Inside, Workshops
Tagged advertising, African, Asian, brand, Business, Call centres, Campaign, CEO, Company, Culture, Diversity, east africa, Employee education, Environment, European, German, global, Italy, Journey, Magazine, Marketing, Organisation, Positive, Staff, Telecoms, UK, Vodafone, Workforce
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Printer’s Delight
As we all hurtle headlong into the digital space, I am sometimes surprised to discover pockets of ‘analogue’ behaviour surviving this populist revolution. In fact, there is one practise that is positively thriving long after I thought we had marked … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Culture change, Internal brand, The Brand Inside, Workshops
Tagged 21st century, African Americans, Analogue, Business, CEO, Containers, Customers, Design, Digital space, Insurance company, Logo, Marketing, Materials, Modern world, Notepad, October, Office, Printer’s, Revolution, Ships
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