Make sure that you and your staff remain sensitive to hesitant or evasive responses, and especially to negative comments. And stay alert for misconceptions, untruths, false assumptions, inaccuracies and rumors. These problem areas will need correction because experience shows they lead to negative behaviors.

Now, your team must select what needs correction most, thus establishing your public relations goal. For example, perception alterations like correcting that damaging inaccuracy, straightening out that unfortunate misconception, or neutralizing that hurtful rumor.

But how will you reach that goal? In same way you approach any operating problem – select right strategy, one that shows you how to reach your public relations goal. However, when it comes to opinion and perception problems, you have just three strategy choices: create perception where there may be none, reinforce an existing perception, or change offending opinion/perception. Just be certain strategy you select is a good fit with your PR goal. Obviously, you would not use “reinforce it” strategy option when your goal is to kill a damaging rumor.

Now, some writing talent is needed to prepare message you will use to alter that key target audience’s perception. The message must be clear and persuasive if it is to nudge perception or opinion in your direction, and lead directly to behaviors you desire.

Much like military when they call in artillery fire during combat, you must employ your communications tactics in a way that insures that your message reaches those members of your target audience.

Fortunately, you have a wide choice of communications tactics such as audience briefings, news releases, speeches, radio and newspaper interviews, special events, personal contacts, and many others. You do want to be sure that tactics you select have a proven track record for reaching people just like members of your target audience.

While a budget sufficient to employ professional survey counsel would be very nice, fact remains that you and your PR team can once again monitor perceptions among members of your target audience by asking very same questions used during earlier monitoring session.

The difference now is that you will watch carefully for signs that your message and communications tactics have moved audience perception in your direction.

If things need to move faster, you always have option of adding new tactics to fray as well as increasing their frequencies. Also advisable, another check of your message for impact and factual accuracy.

By this time, you will have created a public relations program certain to reassure you that you are now getting key stakeholder behaviors you need to help achieve your department, division or subsidiary objectives.

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Bob Kelly counsels, writes and speaks to managers about using the fundamental premise of public relations to achieve their operating objectives. He has been DPR, Pepsi-Cola Co.; AGM-PR, Texaco Inc.; VP-PR, Olin Corp.; VP-PR, Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.; director of communications, U.S. Department of the Interior, and deputy assistant press secretary, The White House. mailto:bobkelly@TNI.net Visit:http://www.prcommentary.com

You see, how you feel and what you're thinking; really does make a difference in whether you will be a success or not.

When you feel excited,you get motivated. You get things done and continue moving toward success.

You need to keep that frame of mind in order to succeed.

If you doubt yourself, why should anyone else believe in you?

Everday- You need to tell yourself:

I am a SUCCESS! My business is a SUCCESS! Noone can bring ME down!

Let me ask you this, " How many of friends and family that tried to discourage you, owned THEIR own business?"

Exactly!

If you are going to listen to someone, listen to someone who has done what you're setting out to do.

They can tell you how to succeed, because they've done it.

So, from now on; don't talk to people you know, about your business.

You really don't have to.

Think of how good you will feel when those nay-sayers notice how well your life is going, and ask YOU how YOU did it.

Keep positive, business building thoughts in your mind.

DON'T let doubts sneak in.

Those negative thoughts will only serve to trash what you've set out to accomplish.

Remember: "You are a success!" and you will be!

See You At The Top, Vicki Ballard

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