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Joanna Parsons is a multi-award-winning communicator who specialises in internal communications - helping organisations communicate more effectively with their employees. She works with a tech company called Teamwork as Head of Internal Communications & Culture. Previously, she played a leading role in the Irish police force as their Head of Internal Communications during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Joanna won 4 communication awards for the work she delivered with the police.

Joanna absolutely loves working in communications but absolutely detests working in chaos. In this episode she shares some of her thoughts on why working in communications can often feel so frantic, and what you can do to stop firefighting and start focusing on quality work that will really make an impact.

What Scott discusses with Joanna

• The problem with taking a lack of evidence-based approach
• Using tools to organise your work and how they can relieve stress
• How you need to match your ambition to your resources
• How to build trust and find you start to get more of what you need
• Moving out of the reactive space into the strategic space
• How many internal comms professionals see themselves
• What type of personalities are attracted to the role
• How they are perceived by the organisation
• Steps to take if you are struggling with too many requests for work
• How she was the first ever Head of Internal Comms in the Irish Police
• And much more...

Links in this episode

• Joanna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannaparsons/
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629.Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance 

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How Scott can help you and your business

• Scott's website for High Performance Training and Coaching: https://www.scottfulton.co.uk
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