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When an employee is arrested or charged with a criminal offence – particularly one likely to attract public or media interest – the communications challenges can be significant. Navigating this situation requires care, confidentiality, and co-ordination between HR, legal and communications teams. How you manage internal and external messaging can have a lasting impact on […]
Select Committee hearings are a key mechanism for Parliamentary scrutiny – and when your organisation or leaders are called to give evidence, the stakes are high. Hearings are public, often televised, and closely followed by the media, campaigners, and stakeholders. While legal teams may be involved in briefing and preparation, this is fundamentally a reputational […]
After a distinguished career that spanned Fleet Street and senior communications roles at British Airways, Cable and Wireless and the Football Association, the time has sadly come for one of Alder’s longest serving and most respected consultants, Steve Double, to retire. Everyone at Alder will miss his reassuring presence, unparalleled expertise and dedication to achieving […]
Google sacked 28 employees last week following internal protests over Israeli contracts in another example of a growing trend of activist workplace issues that employers are having to navigate. However, it is not just the private sector that has found itself affected by issues like those seen at Google, as many third sector organisations have […]
Whether you are soon to become a tech unicorn, a charity that has received major funding and is about to expand or a school that has seen significant year-on-year pupil increases – growing organisations have many reasons to celebrate.  Â
But it is important to remember the caveat that with growth comes increased reputational risk. Greater visibility, a rising profile, evolving stakeholder needs and growing employee numbers all contribute to a heightened exposure to reputational threats and media scrutiny for growing organisations.
The Nigel Farage Coutts banking battle has dominated headlines for the best part of a month and the former UKIP’s leader’s media-savvy approach has resulted in a full-blown crisis at the elite private bank. The closure of a single bank account has sparked debates in Westminster, government pressure, internal investigations, high-profile resignations and a public […]
The CBI’s strategy over the sacking of Tony Danker is intriguing. The most common communications approach when someone leaves an organisation for behavioural shortcomings is to suck the life out of the story by making it so bland that the news agenda moves on as quickly as possible. This is also practical: the high degree […]
After a bruising few months, Sports Direct – bashed by MPs and the media for the quality of its corporate governance and its treatment of low-paid staff – has finally taken some positive steps to address its reputational problems. In a brief statement to the stock market it said leading law firm RPC would carry […]
Corporate culture is back in the news with the publication of the Financial Reporting Council’s study into the relationship between business culture and success. At its simplest, corporate culture is simply ‘the way we do things round here’. It is a powerful force that grows over time and dictates how people in organisations behave and […]