Chris Freek
New Campaign: Grab a sweater and prepare for a cooler campus
The temperatures have dropped and winter conditions are coming to our campus. A reminder to bundle up and dress appropriately to stay warm and safe from the winter elements.
New Campaign: UBC First Aid
UBC Campus Security provides First Aid for students, faculty, staff, student-staff, and visitors on the UBC Vancouver Point Grey campus. Our patrol officers are Occupational First Aid Level 2 (OFA2) certified and will respond and provide initial care and implement any critical interventions up to the scope of their training until paramedics arrive on scene. All medical emergencies should continue to be directed to 9-1-1.
Operational Excellence Website Launches
VPFO Communications & Engagement developed a new website for the VPFO’s new Operational Excellence department. Explore and discover how they will be working across UBC to help shape our transition to a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
The trickle down does not work: a beginners guide to more strategic communications
There’s an idea that when a message is sent out it will act as a cascade or waterfall — it will trickle into every nook and cranny of your organization and everyone will learn and understand the message automatically. That waterfall image is a lie.
5 Tips for Better Communication Around Change
Communications must focus on the right people at the right times and in the right ways. Leveraging our collective experiences and more than two decades of Prosci Best Practices in Change Management research, we complied five helpful tips to improve your communications around change.
Harvard Business Review: Making good choices about channels can increase your productivity
You can be an email ninja, but with the explosion of email (not to mention instant messages, Twitter, LinkedIn, Slack, and countless other communication tools), you’ll never be fast enough to deal with all the incoming communication. choosing the right channels and systems can make all the difference.
UBC’s Accessible and Inclusive Event Planning Guide
Access UBC’s guide and downloadable checklist that can assist you in planning events, public consultations, celebrations, and other occasions so that they can be equally accessible to, and inclusive of, community members who have a disability.
The Harvard Business Review: Storytelling Can Make or Break Your Leadership
Whether you need to win over a colleague, a team, an executive, a recruiter, or an entire conference audience, effective storytelling is key.
New Campaign: Cover Your Cough
Getting sick is never fun, but thankfully there are a few precautions we can all take to stay healthy and stop the spread of germs that make you and others sick. Help us spread the word, not germs!
What does good communications look like?
Research by international consulting firm Watson-Wyatt identified three communication traits of high-performance organizations while Deloitte identified four communication-related factors that help organizations achieve their goals.