The Role of Public Relations in the Work place

It goes without saying that a company has to have a very positive and a committed work force so as to be able to deliver what it promises to its consumers and clients. Regarding the maintenance of a competitive and a positive resource, it has to dwell deep into the recesses of the employee’s behavior, expectations and demands out of the organization.

The conditions are to be maintained in a fashion that foster a great working zeal within the working place. Every employee has to learn to stay in concordance with the others and proliferate the same zeal and enthusiasm within. This requires a great lot of efforts from the side of the employees as well.

The advantage and disadvantage with human beings as your resource is the face that they cannot be treated as machines and would not tune themselves to certain commands and directions. Managing and handling of human emotions within the work place is also one very crucial aspect of the work place. It becomes mandatory that there is an apt fusion of professional roles and emotional encouragement.

Several times and others there is a dire need for the resources of the organization to come together and decide and concede on a common topic.

This no doubt requires that there be harmony among them. Once this aspect is strengthened, professionally the business house can achieve more than even what it sought for.

The employees in the organization along with the employer need to work together as one big family. Every decision need be disseminated in a form that makes the employees feel that it has come into the picture because of their consent and approval. The strengthening of this bond and the affirmation are but very primordial in each aspect of functioning of the organization.

Once the employees are convinced of their loyalties to the firm, it would avoid and do away with trivial conflicts and disputes and rather than taking a dog on the others would be more helpful and adjusting towards them. The individual no doubt instead of unnecessarily wavering forth because of tiny squabbles and feuds would render his undivided attention to sincere work, personal achievement and achievement of the organization.

This boils down to effective communication that needs be directed both horizontally and vertically in the organization. A clear communication ensures the fact that the working individuals know about the policy and the decisions of the organization and are rest assured that they might not in any manner question their existence or efforts towards the organization.

Thus by and large it has become mandatory to maintain amicability both within and outside the organization. These act as strong pillars in order to concretely keep the organization at a position where it refuses to be run down by any useless rumors and conversation lighted to disrepute the organization. Therefore this vast need and the era have been responsible to cull out various techniques and practices to keep the amicability intact.

This article is posted by Poonam Parashar on behalf of value360india which is top public relation agencies in India that offers many PR services like: Strategic Counsel, Crisis Communications, Investor and Analyst Relationship, Digital Media Promotion.

How to Handle Media When Dealing in Public Relations

PublicRelations (PR) industry and media share a symbiotic relationship which is complex and multifaceted. The media play a significant role for a major part of PublicRelation business. The PR practitioners strive to get their stories and reports published in the newspapers, other publications and printed subjects. The absence of media in PR industry would hamper the most important mode of communication between public and PR industry, which is not in the favour of PRindustry and their brand value.

If you are a PR practitioner and understand the importance of media in your field’s progression, you would be glad to get your hands on some tips to deal/handle media.

Tips on Dealing with the Media

Reverting quickly is an important activity: If you have been able to contact some media professional for marketing your PR activities, you should try to build a strong relationship with the. This will help you to have a long association with them, and you can contact them for future references as well. If a media professional has put forward his or her queries in front of, ensure that you reply to it at the earliest. A little negligence or delay from your end may decrease their rate of response to your assignments or deals, affecting your business.

Be accessible: Reporters, writers and journalists may require your inputs or quotes in their articles. They would obviously prefer those people who are easy to talk to and are easily approachable. So be open to them and try to put as many efforts as you can.

Be a helpful hand: The reporter or writer who may be covering your story may have a deadline for it given by his or her head so try to comply with their targets. This will complete your task on time as well as you will form a good professional relationship with him or her. Try to coordinate with their free timings and be prompt to their questions and queries. Never let them cover and complete the whole story on their own. Remember that though they are articulating the story or article, but it is you or your organization that will be reaping benefits from it. Provide them a synopsis of the story in written and let them know that you are open to answers their queries.

Minimize their chances of risk: Most reporters prefer to take quotes from those who have been quoted by other reporters in the past. So while, handling new media professional, ensure that you have introduced him or her to your previous publications and past performance records of your organization.  This will help you to gain initial thrust in media. For being covered with recognizable or well-known publications, you may require to start with some ambiguous publications, but these can be used as past references to build relation with better publications and presses.

Keep follow-up with the reporter or writer and ask them to provide the newspaper, URL or magazine which has your article. After you have dealt with a reporter, add them to your contact database and inform them from time-to-time about your new achievements.