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2 Goodbye past, hello future! Introduction Created in 1955, FEIEA serves the sector of internal communication professionals, whose responsibilities include communication strategy and planning, employee engagement and change management, as well as the management and operation of print-based, audio-visual or electronic communication channels. This <strong>report</strong> reflects FEIEA’s progress and performance during 2007-08 and outlines plans for the current year and beyond. Contents Goodbye past, hello future! 2 President’s message 3 Highlights 4 Strategic themes 5 Income and expenditure 6 Legal, communications and research 7 FEIEA Academy 8 FEIEA Grand Prix 10 Governance 13 Membership 14 Diplomas and Press Cards 15 The FEIEA family - spotlight on the national associations 16 FEIEA The Report 2007-08 FEIEA – bridge, gateway and forum FEIEA is a non-profit-making federation of European internal communication associations, embodying co-operation among national member associations, currently in 11 European countries, run entirely by volunteers from within those member associations. FEIEA aims to speak with a European voice on communication issues at a pan-European level in dealings with the European Union (EU) and business, economic, academic and social organisations across Europe, while remaining independent from all of these bodies. FEIEA provides a network of professional and collegiate support for business communicators. It aims to broaden members’ knowledge of corporate communications matters in Europe. Above all, FEIEA serves its federated national member associations, providing them with a common European meeting point. FEIEA is the bridge that links individual national member associations and the common European space they share. Secondly, it is a gateway to Europe for communication practitioners in other countries who aspire to share this space, too. Thirdly, FEIEA is a forum for sharing best practice, for the study of cultural and other features that shape and influence communication and also for interaction with the EU and other European-scale entities.
President’s message FEIEA President Daniel Ambühl The credit crunch and the resulting loss of trust are not only questions of political or business behaviour, they also affect internal communication and the self-confidence of the employees. In the present crisis, mistrust and criticism infect entire companies whilst the management struggles to retrieve the situation. Why is this? Diminishing entries in order books always have an immediate influence on relations in the workplace at – and between – all levels. As a minimum the loss of power and in the worse case job-losses are among the main causes. Quite often organisations are unable to cope with the impact of the crisis, although management teams so often talk with apparent confidence about change and crisis management. We know this too well: Again, though, why? Is it due to the lack of the habits of a genuine learning organisation? Excellence in internal communication starts with the management insight that transparency is the only basis of mutual trust and that the acceptance of bottom up feedback is the starting point of adaptation to new situations and the introduction of innovation. How near is your company to this point – or how far away? Time and again: it is not power marketing, lobbying, public and political relations that will bring back prosperity and an improvement in economic terms and trade, but it is the turning into reality of the so often conjured up information and communication age, especially inside companies. So, let us change our attitudes! Let us create new trust! Yours Daniel L Ambühl FEIEA The Report 2007-08 3
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