The image of Australia's financial and corporate regulators have taken a battering lately. The PR make-over has not been cheap.
Australian Shareholders' Association chief executive Judith Fox welcomed the spending.
"APRA's executives frequently attend events and conferences to deliver speeches and presentations, or take part in panel discussions, where they communicate industry developments to stakeholders and media," the statement noted. "The specialised skills of NIDA are used to identify participant's individual performance strengths and improve on their habitual tendencies while delivering verbal briefs."Media trainer Melanie Slade of Slade Media said skills in presenting are not enough to guarantee better communication.
Training will help, she said, but it is a willingness to be part of the public conversation that will convince taxpayers that regulators are working effectively. The Maura Fay Group, a communication skills company spun-off from one of Australia's best-known talent casting agencies for film and TV, was paid $105,259.61 for"Stakeholder Engagement Influencing workshops" for ASIC staff.
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