This story in the SMH (here) is a lesson in Crisis PR; it reflects a lot of current sentiment, and you can see plenty of…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 24, 2015
Anne Bryce, CEO, Achieve Australia on Peter Wilkinson and the Wilkinson Group "Peter’s advice has provided the organisation with a more informed approach to a…
Peter WilkinsonApril 20, 2015
From Andrew and Mike Greste: "Peter Wilkinson was recommended to us in late July 2014 as someone who might be able to help campaign to…
Peter WilkinsonApril 14, 2015
Abbott should have been fired this week. It would have happened in a successful business with a clearly focussed board. The kind of paralysis that…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 14, 2015
Side issues like the punitive cuts to the ABC (a broken promise with little economic benefit) and the knighting of the DofE created crisis level distractions…
Peter WilkinsonFebruary 14, 2015
Writing a communication plan is hard. You need to assemble many disparate, and sometimes competing, thoughts into one coherent flow. For that reason I am posting…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 12, 2014
This is a Crisis PR tip I picked up from Lord Tim Bell. It's going to sound over-protective, but it pays dividends. I was a…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 7, 2014
Yesterday Abbott apologised – well sort of. There’s a lesson here in Crisis PR. In this case the crisis is a failure to sell the…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 2, 2014
This week I helped a significant Australian company with a media crisis - an attack by a TV program alleging it had ripped off another…
Peter WilkinsonOctober 13, 2014
In a crisis it's very easy to get lost in the heat-of-the-moment, be it a fire, a death, sexual abuse or fraud. Or a war.…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 6, 2014
In Crisis PR, there are clearly defined steps to offering an apology: Define the issue Be remorseful and show concern (you can't fake either) Apologise…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 2, 2014
Fire destroyed the factory belonging to a client of ours in the middle of 2012. Although the company is smart and nimble, and their recovery…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
Stephen Covey's '7 Habits' outlived him. He remains one of the clearest thinkers on personal leadership I've come across, and whenever I lose track of…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
The below link takes you to a McKinsey Quarterly report - one of the early reports (Nov 2011) that is now a chorus of high…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
Below is a reinforcing take on the powerful survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit and PulsePoint. As e-Marketer reports (below), CEOs are collectively acknowledging positive…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
Here is an alternative view, published in the NYT, on our earlier blog, ‘Is Small Beautiful, Again?’. Its thesis is that creativity occurs more often…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
Does this relate to creativity in public relations or corporate affairs? Any experiences to contribute? Below is an article from the Harvard Business Review in…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
In Australia we are expecting a good year for public relations practitioners in 2012, and we are relying on forecasters like Treasury Secretary Martin Ferguson…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014
We believe that with globalization, being part of a global network is essential for forward thinking public relations specialists; we believe practitioners don’t have the…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 20, 2014