Making Good Bilingual Strategic Communications For Your Organization

By Marlene Blevins


Strategic Communication has been established to be the measures that can be taken to facilitate proper planning on advertising, public relations and communications management. If it is available in English and French for example or any other two languages, then it is referred to as Bilingual Strategic Communications. In some jurisdictions, the use of two different dialects is prevalent and this makes it necessary for the firms operating in such areas to correctly prepare their plans in the two languages.

The professional communication laid out in the plan sometimes require professional communicators. This gives the organization or corporation confidence that each and every experience and message send to the clients leaves a good impression. These communicators can be translators who are able to clearly and correct translate between the two languages. They are an integral part of the organization.

A very solid and good foundation is necessary to build up the best of the bilingual communication systems. In addition, good strategies are crucial for growth and better performance. An excellent outline of the different strategies, well stated mission statement and objectives are invaluable to the organisation. Failure to have well outlined communication strategies may have devastating effects as it leads to confusion which will cost the firm a lot of resources including time.

The integrated system an organization takes requires proper management communication for discipline within the corporations. This gets harder if there are two different languages of command within. But with a well planned bilingual communications system in place, everything goes smoothly according to the set standards. The management communications can then be adhered to.

After developing a good foundation, the next thing is developing the right tools. You should use a model of what/how/who which states the experiences and messages you want to make that is the "what" part. The "How" is the means you will use in creating them. The right people to use in the process are the "who". This is the basis of creating great strategic communication is this model.

The "what" captures decisions to be made on the reasons consumers should buy products from you and the information about your business that will be shared with the public. On the "How" weaknesses and strengths of different channels of communication at your disposal are explored. The audiences you are targeting are the "Who".

The development process then kicks off. This is a multi-step stage by stage process that begins with the approval of the plan where proofreading of the entire plan is done and the green light for the beginning of the process given. Initiating the project, development of concept and creative development are the next steps to the process. The final thing is to produce and distribute the plans to all the staff in the language they are proficient in. Clearly stated and included in the distributed plans are the governance and the performance metrics.

You need a great and motivated team with the right skills to build this kind of strategic communications for your organization. People with passion on what they do, will do it perfectly and happily. It will also reduce the pressure on the management to appoint a person with excellent strategic communication leadership skills to perform the duties of maintained a good strategic communication system in the organization.




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