It’s Time to Reframe PR — Go Beyond the Messenger Role

If you’re a PR professional tired of being seen as just the company’s messenger service or the cleanup crew after a crisis, this episode is for you.

PR pros in numbers are crying out to be rightly recognized as strategic-management professionals — yet too often, we’re left out of the early conversations where our knowledge, experience and insights can make the biggest difference.

In this episode, we dive into a pivotal true story and share five crucial strategies from the PR Pro’s Reframe Playbook to change the conversation about what you do.

These are real, applicable approaches you can use in your job every day to transform the way your organization views and leverages you, your team and your public-relations expertise.

Listen today -- and start changing the conversation about what PR truly brings to the table.

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Welcome back to IT'S A PR THING, where we help you build relationships that build business.

Today’s episode is straight talk for PR pros who want to do the work better. We’ll cover 10 strategies that help retool your thought process, load you up with practical approaches and transform your PR function into a relationship-building machine!

This is a mini-course – building from the basics while escalating to the more expert skills that drive you and your team beyond the “stay-on-message” culture. Each strategy hits the highlights with cut-to-the-chase, real-world experience.

And we finish off with access to an audio book that takes a deeper dive into each strategy, and we provide recommendations on how to use the chapters to transform your PR function.

Whether you’re working as the one-man-band PR pro in your organization, or you’re managing a multi-division PR operation, this episode is for you!

HOST BIO https://www.audible.com/author/Stephanie-McFarland/B00YNFH16E

Welcome back to IT'S A PR THING, where we help you build relationships that build business.

In today's episode we challenge the idea that public relations is about telling your story. Instead, the stories that matter most come from the people you serve.

Today you’ll learn how to shift focus from pushing messages and content to creating experiences that develop and maintain relationships across your organization's stakeholder spectrum. We’ll walk through how to ask better questions, listen with purpose, and design interactions that reflect what your stakeholders actually need. You’ll also learn how to treat relationships as hard assets—the real proof of value that can stand up to crisis, change, and public scrutiny. Whether you’re leading a small business or a large organization, this episode gives you practical tools to help others tell the story of how your work made a difference. Because the most powerful PR isn’t authored—it’s cultivated through the stakeholder experience.

OUR CASE STUDY ORGANIZATION Plahaus Tourist Home

HOST BIO https://www.audible.com/author/Stephanie-McFarland/B00YNFH16E