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From Messaging to Legitimacy: A Practical Playbook for Comms Leaders
Brenda Duran Brenda Duran

From Messaging to Legitimacy: A Practical Playbook for Comms Leaders

If you lead communications inside a government agency, nonprofit, health care system, or other complex organization, you’ve likely experienced some version of this scenario:

Legal wants to say nothing. Operations is still gathering facts. Leadership needs a statement by 3 p.m. Frontline staff learned about the issue from the news. Meanwhile, community stakeholders are already asking questions, and Spanish-language media is discussing the story before anyone in the room has reviewed the coverage.

At first glance, it looks like a communications problem.

In reality, it’s a coordination problem.

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