Comments on: Still think you can control the message? http://corporate.bangthetable.com/2009/07/24/still-think-you-can-control-the-message-2/ Engaging your community online Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:34:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sahila http://corporate.bangthetable.com/2009/07/24/still-think-you-can-control-the-message-2/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Sahila Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:58:31 +0000 http://wordpress-blogger.dev/?p=129#comment-70 I'm a communications and marketing specialist with a huge involvement in social change, based on my 20-year shamanic and spiritual journey, a facsimile of which is narrated in Peter Senge's book "Presence".<br /><br />As I have been telling my clients and the public organisations with which I am dancing the dance of change - the Settle Public School District and its board of directors - the only way forward is to make decisions and take action from a place of authentic integrity, considering the holistic whole... the only way to win trust and to achieve 'buy-in' is to come from a place of total transparency....<br /><br />There is some resistance to this "new: way of doing things! :-) I think its the fear of losing 'control', which paradoxically they never had in the first place! I'm a communications and marketing specialist with a huge involvement in social change, based on my 20-year shamanic and spiritual journey, a facsimile of which is narrated in Peter Senge's book "Presence".

As I have been telling my clients and the public organisations with which I am dancing the dance of change – the Settle Public School District and its board of directors – the only way forward is to make decisions and take action from a place of authentic integrity, considering the holistic whole… the only way to win trust and to achieve 'buy-in' is to come from a place of total transparency….

There is some resistance to this "new: way of doing things! :-) I think its the fear of losing 'control', which paradoxically they never had in the first place!

]]> By: KerrieAnne Christian http://corporate.bangthetable.com/2009/07/24/still-think-you-can-control-the-message-2/comment-page-1/#comment-69 KerrieAnne Christian Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:53:58 +0000 http://wordpress-blogger.dev/?p=129#comment-69 When I was a City Councillor, I observed the metrics around positive to negative media stories - one manager's role was to direct the spin - ah "Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome" - I used to observe - you need to think substance not just style - ie actually make positive change - not just spin it When I was a City Councillor, I observed the metrics around positive to negative media stories – one manager's role was to direct the spin – ah "Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome" – I used to observe – you need to think substance not just style – ie actually make positive change – not just spin it

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