Cardeas co-sponsors Summit for Communicators in South Africa

 

Co-sponsored by Cardeas, the inaugural Melcrum Corporate Communication Management Summit held in Johannesburg, early June 2009 was a benchmark event for the corporate communication community in South Africa. The summit afforded an unprecedented opportunity for interaction and networking.

 

The three day conference of workshops, presentations and discussions provided a much needed forum for practitioners, academics and consultants to share ideas on many aspects of internal communication. Around 100 delegates from across South Africa and the continent - as far as Egypt, Ghana, and Nigeria - attended to listen and learn how leading companies including Standard Bank, Liberty Group, MultiChoice, Pick n Pay, Murray and Roberts, Sappi Limited, Mercedes-Benz, and MTN are successfully managing communication within their often diverse and transforming business environments.

 

Presentations emphasised the central role that senior communicators have in helping leaders enhance their influence as well as sharing insights how best practice communication and employee engagement helps these businesses enhance their corporate social responsibility commitments, embed safety compliance and a code of ethics, transform employee culture, create unity in a diverse workforce, manage business change and add value to the working environment.