While large organizations have long – and rightly – had their own communications directors to drive communications strategies and implement action plans, medium-sized organizations find it hard to take the plunge and set up their own communications teams.
There’s no longer any doubt that the head of communications – usually the director – is a strong asset on the management team. As a true strategist, we work with our associates to ensure that they all feel valued and participate individually and collectively in reinforcing the structure’s brand image.
To stand out from the crowd in an increasingly competitive market, medium-sized companies can now not only call on a 360° communications agency specialized in their profession, but also on communicators who work directly on their premises one or two days a week.
It’s in their interest to work with this specialist on their major projects, to help them understand the agency’s processes, monitor deadlines and prepare the launch of these major projects step by step.
An in-house 360° communications agency (brand platform, website, press packages or now social networks, brand content…);
A professional to answer all your day-to-day questions;
A legal-trained communicator who understands your organization’s issues.
It will certainly be easier to roll out a communication plan if a strategy has been established upstream between the partners and the agency!
In this way, the outsourced communications manager will be able to provide a framework for his or her mission, and ensure that associates benefit from real support in their communications.
And if this mission proves convincing, once your internal processes have been structured with outsourced communications management then it will certainly be time to give a young professional a chance to take over directly in-house!