Guide to Chartered 2018

BECOME A CHARTERED PR PRACTITIONER 11
2 STRATEGY
a Research and analytical skills
You must show how you use a variety of tools for gathering information on your employer or
clients and their relevant industries and issues.
Similarly, you must show how you continuously analyse the business environment, including
your employer, clients, stakeholders, employees and suppliers.
You’ll need to show how you process and filter large amounts of data in order to extract the
relevant information and key insights for decision-making, and that you can identify when
and how PR activity can support your employer’s or clients’ objectives.
b Strategic thinking and management
You must show you can synthesise relevant information to establish what is needed
to position your employer or client in its market or environment, particularly regarding
changing business, political or cultural climates.
c Planning
You must show you can set goals and objectives based on your research and be able
to distinguish goals, objectives, strategies and tactics.
You should also distinguish organisational or operational goals and strategies from
those of communications.
You must show how you align project goals with organisational missions and goals,
and identify specific PR outcomes.
Budgets and strategic directions for communications should be established in relation
to organisational goals, as well as communication metrics to evaluate success.
d Evaluation and measurement
You need to articulate how goals and objectives were met, and the extent to which
the results or outcomes of PR programmes support the organizational goals.
You then need to show how these evaluation results can be used for future planning.
e Counsel to management
You should illustrate the importance of providing counsel to the management or client
regarding risks, crises and other issues, looking beyond the current organisational mindset
to explore solutions.
You should consider and accommodate all views on an issue or crisis, factoring these views
into your communication strategy.
3 LEADERSHIP
a Values and character
You need to show that you understand the role that PR plays at the strategic level,
that you provide advice and counsel to management and that you shape the organisation’s
values and character.
b Business literacy and resource management
You need to understand how your employer or client generates revenue and how operations
are conducted to identify relevant business drivers. You should illustrate how the PR function
contributes to an organisation’s commercial success and its ‘licence to function’. Consider all
human, financial and organisational resources, and prepare, control and justify budgets for
organisations, clients or agencies, departments and programmes.