Ketchum author Tamara Norman

Tamara is partner and managing director for Ketchum’s Employee Communications & Engagement specialty. She collaborates closely with clients to create and deploy corporate reputation campaigns and believes that all strong reputation programs begin inside.

Posts: Tamara Norman

To Engage or Not: Responding to Issues Outside Your Business

To Engage or Not: Responding to Issues Outside Your Business

by Tamara Norman and John Bradbury | April 19, 2022

This story was originally published on CommPRO.biz. Your response to issues outside your core business is still a business decision. So treat it like one. Companies and brands are more likely these days to take stands on social and political issues outside their core areas of business. When they don’t, some stakeholders, who expect they […]

Act Now: Four Trends in 2022 Employee Communications

Act Now: Four Trends in 2022 Employee Communications

by Tamara Norman and Lauren Butler | November 9, 2021

How do we keep our most important stakeholders – employees – engaged and enthusiastic brand ambassadors in a prolonged hybrid work environment? Communicating with employees during an evolving Return to Office strategy must change dramatically in 2022.   During AMA’s Coffee Break series, we laid out four trends we are seeing in employee communications that organizations must plan for now. In […]

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The Year of the Employee Influencer

by Tamara Norman | April 27, 2021

A year into the pandemic, employees aren’t “returning” to work—they’re redefining it. In this charged environment, the dual role of the workforce as both audience and advocate has never been more crucial. Whether these key stakeholders work on the front line, in the back office or what may now be a permanent home office, employee […]

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One Year in: Embracing and Managing the Changing Workplace

by Tamara Norman and Lauren Butler | March 16, 2021

It’s part science, part spring weather and part wishful thinking: this sense that we’re starting to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. The calendar helps reinforce that impression too, because it’s been a year since we shut down, and our brains like round numbers. In truth, we have more care and precautions ahead. But the anniversary […]

2021 Outlook: A New COVID Chapter for Employee Engagement

2021 Outlook: A New COVID Chapter for Employee Engagement

by Tamara Norman and Lauren Butler | December 15, 2020

No one can deny that 2020 has felt like a lifetime, especially for employees. Whether they’re frontline workers who have been risking their health to provide essential services, office workers who have had to navigate the blurred lines, burnout and familial challenges of working from home, or among the many people who have struggled in […]

The Next Chapter: A Case for Stronger Post-Election Communication

The Next Chapter: A Case for Stronger Post-Election Communication

by Tamara Norman and Bill Zucker | November 9, 2020

There’s little doubt that, like many things in politics, different Americans watching Saturday evening’s speeches from President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris had different emotions. But as we turn the corner from an unprecedented moment in our history, communicators have a chance to seize on the tone of the incoming President as they […]