Services

Strategic Communications Planning

This is about effectively getting your story or messages out, or managing a new initiative or change in your organization.

Effective communications begins with a communications strategy. Without one, you are leaving your communications to chance. At BissettMatheson, we like strategies, and you should too. They increase the odds considerably that your communications effort will accomplish what you want it to.

Crisis Management & Communications

Imagine the worst case scenario. Is your organization prepared to handle such a crisis? A reputation that took years to build can crumble in an instant if crisis is not handled properly.

Change Management & Communication

Anxiety, paranoia, fear, mistrust, depression, sustained stress.

These emotional reactions among employees can prevent a necessary change in the workplace from succeeding. The ability of employees at all levels to adapt to change is vital to the kind of organizational flexibility essential in today’s business world.

Media & Public Relations

First of all, understand that media relations and public relations are related, but are not the same thing.

Media Relations is about having and building upon strong relationships with editors and reporters, based on mutual respect.  The BissettMatheson team has strong credibility in this area, with more than 60 years, collectively, of actual journalism experience among our group. So, when a client has a newsworthy story or view to get out there, we have the connections and ability to help make that happen.

Advocacy Campaigns

If you have spent any time on our website, you have probably gathered that we are strong believers in a strategic approach to communications. Nowhere is a careful strategy more important than in an advocacy campaign.

Speech Writing

“Good enough” won’t cut it when it comes to speeches. BissettMatheson can help you capture your “voice” in a memorable and effective way so that your audience leaves with clear messages and good things to say about your presentation.

Media & General Communications Training

Hands-on workshops that will give you the skills and confidence to deal with the media, or any public audience effectively.

Focus Group Research

If you were preparing to introduce a new product, service or campaign, wouldn't it be handy to see what people think before you do a major unveiling? 

If you need to get a handle on how people perceive your organization or institution, wouldn't some honest feedback be helpful?

 That's what you get from a focus group—honest, sometimes painfully frank opinion.

Workshops

Aside from the Media Training and Crisis Communications courses which BMC has been delivering since the early 90s, the firm has had great success with several other workshops it has developed over the years.