Joe Williams Communications, Inc.
FACT SHEET
We are a leading corporate communications research, planning, and training firm.
Incorporated since 1985, we are headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Our work is tailored to the needs of our clients.
One of the largestif not the largestdatabase of employee communications research: more than 7 million individual responses from companies and organizations around the globe, representing some 500,000 employees.
Through our research, strategic planning and Face2Face communication training, we serve a diverse client base across North America, including such companies as Merck, McGraw-Hill, Northeast Utilities, Butterfield Bank, Prudential, Lucent, Goodyear, Key Bank, Midwest Express Airlines, Nortel Networks, National City, GreenPoint Financial, Enbridge, John Deere, FirstEnergy, the US Forest Service (Alaska Region), H & R Block, Aecon (Canada), Millennium Pharmaceuticals, the Federal Reserve Bank and others.
Innovated Face2Face, an interactive award-winning training program that improves the face-to-face communication skills of managers and executives by giving them simple, yet powerful tools for communicating business issues that improve trust and understanding.
The first firm to teach strategic communications planningthrough our popular week-long Dialogue in the Desert Strategic Planning Workshop, held several times a year in Arizona.
We help companies evaluate and restructure their communications to include assessments and plans regarding their purpose, policies, structure, content and programs.
We help companies in their change management programs through the use of our strategic communications mapping tools, processes and research.
Our research processes utilize a blend of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, ranging from written questionnaires to focus groups.
We conduct communication audits, employee engagement surveys, audience opinion surveys, organizational climate surveys, readership surveys, community research, job satisfaction surveys, issues research and image studies.
Developed ComLINK, an innovative statistical research process that calculates the quantitative impact of communication on organizational performance.
Developed ComDEX, a one-of-a-kind questionnaire that measures a manager's face-to-face communication skills and provides a communication index rating for the individual manager and for all managers in the organization. It can be used in conjunction with our Face2Face Communication Learning Program or as a separate stand-alone process.
Developed leading edge strategic planning tools that are built around a strategic mapping and thinking process.
Wrote and designed the 100th anniversary booklet for National City in Cleveland, Ohio. Have written/designed coffee table books on subjects ranging from Philmont, the Boy Scout ranch in New Mexico, to Woolaroc, a western art museum in Oklahoma.
Have written/designed community history books.
Hold more than 100 awards for our work, ranging from strategic planning and research to training and writing/design. We hold 13 Gold Quills from the International Association of Business Communicators, as well as many district and chapter awards.
The only company to win four Gold Quill awards in one year from the International Association of Business Communicators.
Received the Oklahoma Book Award of the year for design.
Joe Williams wrote a monthly column on CareerBuilding for the International Association of Business Communicators.
We are frequent speakers at association conferences.
Associates hold advanced degrees -- from Master's to MBA's.
