In2 Consulting | Communications Agency

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Are you ready to guide your team through the change that lies ahead? Make sure your internal communication is ready to support your organization’s transition to the new normal once #covid19 restrictions are lifted.… instagram.com/p/CA2ZWWspArJ/…

@nickyregazzoni @PRCA_UK Thanks @nickyregazzoni and @GeorgeBlizzard for organizing the #Twitterchat, lots of virtual food for thought!

@GeorgeBlizzard Having strong values, clear roles & responsibilities as well as high levels of accountability is key. #VirtualPReality

#VirtualPReality Q5: One topical question, given many agencies switched very suddenly to 100% remote working thanks to #Covid-19 - how can you build a company culture in a virtual environment? How can you create a strong sense of team?

#Tech is key! We set up with the aim to operate fully paper-less (with the exception of stuff that needs to be on paper record) through the use tech in the cloud so we could work with anyone, at any time, from anywhere. #VirtualPReality

@PlaytimePRLtd Hi Lesley, completely agree. Because of the model we've chosen to adopt, we're able to offer our clients an all-senior team for all projects.

#virtualPReality The main pro for our clients is a consistent, expert, senior team of talent on every aspect of their business... plus being agile, fast to adapt, able to scale teams up and down according to needs - and lower overheads

@Mrs_Wadds Couldn't have said this better Sarah! I think we're well past the traditional 9-5 requirements of the traditional work environment. You can fit some much more into life this way!

@GeorgeBlizzard Flexibility with #accountability is one of the key pillars of our agency model, it's been part of our philosophy from the start. Whether part-time, full-time or freelance, flexibility is core to our internal culture. We won an award recently for providing work life balance.

#VirtualPReality Q4: How important is #flexibleworking to you and your teams and how have you embedded it in your business and working practices? Any tips for making this work?

@nickyregazzoni An important consideration for us has been the ability to offer senior comms professionals high levels of flexibility - even in full time roles - which were not necessarily very widely available in senior in-house or traditional agency roles.

@stuartbruce @AngieWiles @nickyregazzoni This is exactly what we see as one of the biggest pros. Our model allows us to bring specialised senior talent together to deliver quality work, often from across different timezones, which has increased our turnaround times and client servicing ability.

@AngieWiles @nickyregazzoni Can make it easier to maintain higher quality as can always have the best people for the job and even creatively leverage timezones to provide faster turnaround #virtualpreality

@stuartbruce @GeorgeBlizzard @DecisionCircle We believe the agility and ability to adapt to change is one of the biggest pros of a virtual agency.

@GeorgeBlizzard The @DecisionCircle model is still evolving so you might get three different answers 😊 But that's actually another pro. We can quickly evolve the model to adapt to changing social, political and economic circumstances. #virtualpreality

#VirtualPReality Q2: We never wanted or needed an office; in 2020 while our team is still all virtual we have a perm team of 7 in the UK & 100s of active partners worldwide. Can you tell us about your model in terms of the mix of perm/scalable team, fixed, remote locations etc?

@GeorgeBlizzard We set up as a virtual agency by design, every year we would discuss whether we 'needed' an office and gave that conversation up after a few years. We've been fully virtual for the past 10 years. Our model has always been a small perm team supported by freelancers.

#virtualPReality Hi everyone, I'm Anne Bleeker, co-founder and MD of In2 Consulting. We're a boutique strategic PR & Communications agency based in Dubai, we worked across different industry whilst specialising in #hospitality . We set up in 2010 as a virtual agency by design.

Excuse the volume of tweets for the next hour as we participate in the #VirtualPReality #TwitterChat with our fellow members of the @PRCA_UK Virtual Agencies PR working group.

Just a little under an hour to go until our 1st #Twitterchat kicks off debating the virtual agency's place in the #PRindustry of the future. Join the founding members of the @PRCA_UK virtual agencies group at 7PM Dubai time

@nickyregazzoni @PRCA_UK @4pm @PRNetwork @GeorgeBlizzard Looking forward to getting started shortly!

An exciting day in uncertain times as our client Bench Events hosts its first ever virtual conference to bring over 3,000 hospitality professionals from all over the world together online at #HospitalityTomorrow.… instagram.com/p/B-rMDsApp4P/…