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Your Comprehensive Communications Plan will be tailored to formalize and encompass the
objectives, goals and tools for all of your corporate communications, including, but not
limited to:
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The ideal time to develop your Comprehensive Communications Plan is in conjunction with
your annual evaluative or strategic planning process, but considering that the execution of a
plan is so vital to the health and efficacy of your organization—the sooner you implement a
plan, the better. Your communications plan will impact day-to-day decisions, at every level
of your organization and will be an invaluable reference tool for growth and development.
Data for your Comprehensive Communications Plan comes from these primary sources:
Solutions Consulting Group will partner with your organization to expedite the development
of your plan by identifying all relevant details, strengths and weaknesses of your
organization’s current communications and information management structure, such as:
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2. Define constituents. List all the audiences that your organization might want to contact,
attempt to influence, or serve. Including but not limited to:
clients/consumers
general public
competitors
funding organizations (donors and sponsors)
program staff
subcontractors
employees
federal, regional, and local governments
spokespersons
media
3. Define objectives. Armed with information from your audit, define your overall
communications objectives.
4. Define goals. Consider the restated goals and objectives, and what available human
capital and financial resources will be necessary to develop your programs into action
plans. Develop a comprehensive, multi-task approach to achieving each objective.
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newsletters, digital and social media). Take the time necessary to compile an exhaustive
list. Solicit the insight of key constituents and objective, non-competing organizations.
Include all relevant logistical and administrative variables—then choose as wisely and as
permanently as possible.
7. Establish timetables. Once your constituents, objectives, goals, tools and funding have
been identified, quantify the results into a timeline/calendar that outlines what projects will
be accomplished and when. Separate each project into practical time blocks.
8. Evaluate results. Build benchmarks into your timeline to measure results. Consider that
your evaluation method and resulting metrics may be extracted from and/or integrated into:
For more information, please have a representative authority from your organization
contact Solutions Consulting Group immediately or visit our website at
www.consultantsdc.com to schedule an Initial Consultative Assessment of Need (ICAN).
All executive and signatory staff should be present for the initial appointment.
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