Communication Capacity Building

Strategic communication within an organization to achieve strategic goals requires deliberate and intentional action. This includes ensuring the capacity building resources are available to make it happen.

Training consideration should be considered at three levels:

• Workers need to be knowledgeable about the direction of the company to help improve the organization.
• Employees rely on trusted supervisors for information and awareness of priorities.
• Supervisors need multiple channels available to make sure messages get across.

Employee surveys are a great source of information and for directing capacity building efforts. Recognizing new trends and reflecting employee opinions in materials recognizes the importance of internal stakeholders to the process and makes the actual trainings more salient to the audience.

Training and Skills Development

Professional development opportunities in communication aid internal and external goals. Training offers team building opportunities that emphasize the responsibility nuclear organizations put on staff to effectively communicate their results and practices. It helps managers and executives share their experiences and refine the way they talk about their work to staff and the public, allowing for consistency across audiences. Employees gain new techniques and behaviours that help them and their organizations succeed.

Nuclear programmes around the world have executed a variety of communication trainings, including:

• Media Training
• Risk Communication Techniques
• Presentation Skills
• Reaching Your Target Audiences
• Proven Practices to Communicate Science
• Ways to Use Visual Communication
• Show, Don’t Tell: Effective Messaging Techniques
• PowerPoint Skills
• Social media
• Creating A Professional Brand

Communicators can work with outside professionals to identify their training objectives and develop custom workshops to meet their needs.