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Very Public Affairs is a regular update, examination and exposé of the latest trends and developments in how public affairs is managed in large organsiations globally. Each episode examines an aspect of best practice in corporate public affairs internationally, providing insight and guidance to public affairs practitioners working in corporations.
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Trends and developments in best practice advocacy campaigns
Public advocacy campaigns - featuring insights and case studies on what works; and what is it about corporate advocacy campaigns that make them so tricky, and even risky?
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Sydney
How to form and manage high performing corporate public affairs teams
This module focuses on high performing teams in corporate public affairs functions globally, and best practice in team formation, composition, and modus operandi
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Sydney
2021 Annual Heads of Function and Senior Practitioners Dinner and Roundtable
The Roundtable is the one day in the year for the function's leaders to be part of important conversations and stimulating discussions about managing the corporate public affairs function
A CENTRE SIGNATURE OFFERING
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Sydney
Public affairs professional development for executive assistants and team coordinators
The only offering of its kind specifically designed for EAs and Team Coordinators working in corporate public affairs
HELD ANNUALLY
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Online Learning
Online Learning
Centre for Corporate Public Affairs Issues Management Certificate
The Centre is offering an Issues Management Certificate course which will be delivered over 8 weeks – from 15 February 2021 to 29 March 2021.
1. About this course
How an organisati...
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The Centre’s Top Five Predictions for the Corporate Public Affairs function – 2020
Key Insights: Trends and Developments in Leadership Communications
What can we learn from Boeing’s crisis response?
The Centre’s top five predictions for 2019
The Centre’s new professional award and recognition framework
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Latest News
Stay abreast of what’s happening internationally with developments in corporate public affairs. Here is news that you may find useful and interesting:
Shareholders fume over plans to make virtual AGMs permanent
Why work-from-anywhere is here to stay
Make climate risk reports mandatory for 480 FTSE firms, says investor group
Why COVID-19 is a litmus test for corporate attitudes to sustainability
Focus on social responsibility in the wake of Juukan Caves destruction
BHP bosses defend company's decision to remain in gas & oil
AFL call means Rio Tinto has lost 'social licence': Indigenous leader
Investors lead push for Australian business to cut emissions more than government forecasts
Starbucks pledges to have 30% of corporate workforce identity as a minority by 2025
Is the social media platform Twitter the new church of the damned?
Corporate America works to drive turnout in a tumultuous election season
Newsletters
In search of the Holy Grail of trust
Fake News: all the news that’s unfit to print
Scholarship and public affairs theory building
The renaissance of the corporate advocacy campaign
Off-course: the baffling case of MH370 and the crisis management that survived it
What position do you find yourself in?
Going the distance - The State of Australian Public Affairs
Where we are, and how we got here: public affairs in Australia
The business case for proactive government relations
Innovation is not a top priority for many corporate public affairs teams
Stakeholder engagement and innovation in the public sector: insights for business
An increasingly important role for Public Affairs in Asia
Strong ties — Corporate community investment weathers the downturn
