Annual Report. Two words that used to fill me with dread and anguish when I worked as a comms manager. It wasn’t so much the content – but the whole fraught process of putting the thing together that caused stress levels to rocket.
Everyone seems to want a fancy-dan document to show off what’s been happening over the year, but no-one seems to want to provide you with any of the information. Apparently you can magic up the Annual Report fairies to do that. Strangely, once it is written, every man and his dog wants a say… and so begins the tortuous process of editing it by committee. There really is nothing worse. Read the rest of this entry »
