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Public relations professionals are operating in an increasingly challenging and complex environment. Pressures from outside the organisation include new accountabilities, empowered stakeholders, increased public cynicism and a new communication landscape. Internally, there are increasing demands to demonstrate a strategic contribution, alongside a requirement to coach and counsel senior managers exposed to these environmental pressures. This revised and updated edition provides a framework to enable public relations professionals to clearly articulate and demonstrate their own contribution to organisational effectiveness, while also setting out the specific capabilities public relations leaders must exhibit to operate at the highest levels of the organisation. This edition further develops the pioneering approach to integrating thinking around public relations, leadership, and strategy. It has been updated comprehensively to address contemporary developments and introduce new research and fresh perspectives from the authors. New to this edition are insights from Chief Executives on what they expect from public relations leaders and a comprehensive set of capabilities which scope the demanding role of professionals at the top of their game.Concise and practical, this textbook is suitable for MBA and other postgraduate and executive education qualifications in Public Relations and Corporate Communications – especially for those students who wish to pursue a successful career as a professional public relations specialist, able to operate strategically at the top of successful organisations.

La comunicación corporativa opera en un entorno cada vez más complejo y exigente. Las presiones desde el entorno de la organización implican nuevas rendiciones de cuentas, compromiso con los grupos de interés, aumento del cinismo público y un nuevo ecosistema comunicativo. Internamente, también aumenta la presión por demostrar el retorno de la inversión, junto a requerimientos para entrenar y aconsejar a los directivos expuestos a estas presiones del entorno. Este contexto requiere profesionales capaces de articular y demostrar claramente cuál es su contribución a la generación de valor. Este libro presenta un marco de trabajo para poder hacerlo, así como una lista de las capacidades esenciales que deben adquirir y demostrar aquellos profesionales que quieran situarse en las esferas más in?uyentes de cualquier organización. Se trata de un texto breve; perfecto para quienes aspiran a mejorar la práctica profesional, MBAs y otros programas de posgrados, especialmente para aquellos estudiantes y profesionales que desean perseguir una carrera exitosa, capaces de trabajar estratégicamente en la alta dirección de organizaciones excelentes.

Public relations is operating in an increasingly challenging and complex environment. Pressures from outside the organisation include new accountabilities, empowered stakeholders, increased public cynicism and a new communication landscape. Internally, there are increasing demands to demonstrate a return on investment, alongside a requirement to coach and counsel senior managers exposed to these environmental pressures. This context requires public relations professionals to be able to clearly articulate and demonstrate their own contribution to organisational effectiveness. This textbook provides public relations leaders with a framework to do this, as well as a checklist of essential capabilities which they must acquire and exhibit if they are to operate at the highest levels of any organisation. This short textbook is suitable for aspiring practitioners, MBA and other masters qualifications in public relations - especially for those students who wish to pursue a successful career as a professional PR specialist able to operate strategically at the top of successful organisations.