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Mission, goals, objectives

  • Organisation's mission
    • Organisation's goals
      • Organisation's objectives
        • Public relations goals and objectives
          • Publication goals and objectives

Management by Objectives:

  • A process whereby management and employees work toward objectives within an organisation
    • Employees agree and understand
    • All work toward those objectives
  • Aims to increase organizational performance by aligning goals and subordinate objectives throughout the organization.
    • MBO includes ongoing tracking and feedback in the process to reach objectives.

Free Management Library, 2008

Strategic Communication

  • Communicating to achieve goals and objectives of an organisation
    • Result of advanced planning, such as MBO
    • Enables organisations to integrate messaging efforts.
      • Integrated communication
      • Create and distribute communications with an inner coherence.
      • Consistency that reinforces the organisational message and brand.
      • Prevents contradictory, confusing messaging to different groups across media platforms.

Publication Management by Objectives

  • In PR publications, a plan for message(s) to
    • reach intended audience(s) and
    • accomplish intended purpose(s).
  • Sets objectives for communication.
    • Provides criteria to measure messages' effectiveness.
    • Behavioral objectives best
      • Get audience to do something

Objectives

  • Objectives must be
    • Specific
      • Specific audience, results and time frame
    • Reasonable
      • Don’t aim too low or too high
    • Measurable
      • Must contain NUMBERS

Management by Objectives for Publications

  • Planning
  • Writing
  • Evaluation
  • Planning
    • Set objectives & criteria for evaluation
      • (justification or creative brief: at least one behavioral objective)
    • Analyze the target audience (research project; identify & describe in justification)
    • Pick the most appropriate medium or media
    • Research the topic
  • Writing
    • Research & develop the appropriate style
    • Organize the message
    • Write the message
      • Make sure the message specifically addresses purpose, objectives; not too general
  • Evaluation
    • Test the message in advance of distribution
      • adjust if necessary
    • Evaluate the message during the program
      • adjust if necessary
    • Evaluate the message following the program
      • Explain in justification how effectiveness will be evaluated.
    • Make recommendations for next message.
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