Bilingual Strategic Communications Development Process

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By Marlene Blevins


Strategic Communication has been established to be the measures that can be taken to facilitate proper planning on advertising, public relations and communications management. If it is available in English and French for example or any other two languages, then it is referred to as Bilingual Strategic Communications. In some jurisdictions, the use of two different dialects is prevalent and this makes it necessary for the firms operating in such areas to correctly prepare their plans in the two languages.

The professional communication laid out in the plan sometimes require professional communicators. This gives the organization or corporation confidence that each and every experience and message send to the clients leaves a good impression. These communicators can be translators who are able to clearly and correct translate between the two languages. They are an integral part of the organization.

In building a good bilingual communications system, you should have a strong foundation. For continued growth and good performance, good communication strategies are of essence. A well defined communication course of action with clearly stated purpose, mission and the objectives aimed to be achieved will have many benefits to the company. Lack of clear communication can lead to confusion within the organization which is very costly in terms of money and time.

The integrated system an organization takes requires proper management communication for discipline within the corporations. This gets harder if there are two different languages of command within. But with a well planned bilingual communications system in place, everything goes smoothly according to the set standards. The management communications can then be adhered to.

The next step is the development of excellent tools. The model to be employed is the what/how/who that offers the best basis for development of excellent tools. The "what" gives an idea of the messages to be made while the "how" part gives the ways and means of creating the messages. The "who" section outlines the best personnel to use in these processes.

It is necessary to note that the decisions and actions taken to make consumers buy from you and the information the public gets to know about you company are all discussed in "what". The weaknesses and strengths which can be exploited in different communication channels are stated under the "How". The audiences targeted automatically fall under the "Who".

The development process then kicks off. This is a multi-step stage by stage process that begins with the approval of the plan where proofreading of the entire plan is done and the green light for the beginning of the process given. Initiating the project, development of concept and creative development are the next steps to the process. The final thing is to produce and distribute the plans to all the staff in the language they are proficient in. Clearly stated and included in the distributed plans are the governance and the performance metrics.

You need a great and motivated team with the right skills to build this kind of strategic communications for your organization. People with passion on what they do, will do it perfectly and happily. It will also reduce the pressure on the management to appoint a person with excellent strategic communication leadership skills to perform the duties of maintained a good strategic communication system in the organization.




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