Strategic counsel | Internal communication | Institutional relations | Employment
Minimising oppositions and securing reputation in a sensitive context (post Covid-19).
Our mission
Securing a company’s reputation towards clients and decision-makers, minimising opposition from officials and highlighting job-saving initiatives in the midst of a pandemic.
Context
The client, an integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting company, faced an important Covid-19-related drop of activity.
To rebound and guarantee its future, the company was forced to announce one of the first redundancy plans in France since the beginning of the crisis.
A negative reception from clients and public policy makers was to be feared, potentially leading to a degraded corporate image and distrust.
Our support
Leveraging the company’s effort to diversify activities, engaging in relations with key institutional stakeholders, analysing governmental decisions to use them in a novel and efficient way to save jobs.
Leveraging efforts to diversify activities
- Ensuring that media outlets read by clients and decision-makers kept highlighting the client’s expertise and its efforts to maintain activity and jobs.
Networking with key public decision-makers
- • Providing counsel on the strategic plan and messages;
- • Preparing and setting up meetings with previously identified relevant stakeholders (bios, topics of interest, latest relevant statements, interview guidelines, handouts…);
- • Managing meetings follow-up (reports, situation updates, follow-up contacts…).
Highlighting the group’s actions to creatively use government measures to save jobs
- • Providing the client with regular information on government measures
- • Counsel to ensure a positive coverage on the ambitious initiative launched to drastically reduce the scale of the redundancy plan.
Key results
- • Continued positive media coverage, including related to the redundancy plan.
- • Institutional support from local public authorities, despite the client’s announcing one of the first Covid-related redundancy plans in France.
- • Upheld trust from clients and partners.
