Building Good Bilingual Strategic Communications

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.

Professional communicators are needed to carry out the laid out professional communications in the plan. A new confidence comes to the organization when they are sure that messages being conveyed to clients and the experiences leave a recommendable impression. They can be professional translators trusted with the job of translating between the two languages clearly. The organization can't do without them.

In building a good bilingual communications system, you should have a strong foundation. For continued growth and good performance, good communication strategies are of essence. A well defined communication course of action with clearly stated purpose, mission and the objectives aimed to be achieved will have many benefits to the company. Lack of clear communication can lead to confusion within the organization which is very costly in terms of money and 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.

The next step is the development of excellent tools. The model to be employed is the what/how/who that offers the best basis for development of excellent tools. The "what" gives an idea of the messages to be made while the "how" part gives the ways and means of creating the messages. The "who" section outlines the best personnel to use in these processes.

It is necessary to note that the decisions and actions taken to make consumers buy from you and the information the public gets to know about you company are all discussed in "what". The weaknesses and strengths which can be exploited in different communication channels are stated under the "How". The audiences targeted automatically fall under the "Who".

Development process comes next after the tools have been identified. A lot of time will be spent on this stage of building a good strategic communication plan. This step has different stages which all should be done with care. The plan should be approved as the first stage so that other stages can be based on the plan. The project initiation comes next followed by concept development. After that a comprehensive creative development is done with metrics of performance and governance clearly stated so that when the plan is produced and distributed to all staff it will be easily understood in either of the languages used in writing it.

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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