PROJECTS
Changing Perception through Storytelling
Jenny Bragiel, Volunteer Program Manager with the Loudoun County Combined Fire and Rescue System and Founder of Bragiel Global Consulting, speaks about creating positive perceptions of your organization by telling your organizational story. During her presentation, she challenges the audience’s understanding of perception and pushes attendees to think about their organizational messaging in a new way.
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So often we talk about mistakes made in communications. We focus on the negative aspects and how to avoid them. This presentation focuses on the positives and how to build relationships and trust that will help you when something negative occurs. Bad things happen and mistakes happen, no matter how many policies you create or how much you train. Building a positive perception internally and externally can help give your organization the benefit of the doubt. It can help make it easier to get back to a positive place with your community, your local government officials, and your internal members. It will also help with your recruitment and retention efforts.
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Presented at VCOS Symposium in the Sun 2023 as a 45 minute presentation.
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Read the VCOS Newsletter Interview with Jenny Bragiel on this presentation to learn more about it.
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A longer version of this presentation, 90 minutes, was created for and presented at the Louisiana State Firemen's Association (LSFA)119th Annual Conference, July 23-27, 2024, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The longer version includes key discussion on how to work a recruitment booth and how to prepare your members to quickly tell what makes your department unique and why someone should join.
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Reach out today to request this presentation.
Wow Moments Experience & Event Design Website Development
Thank you to Wow Moments Experience & Event Design for choosing to work with Bragiel Global Consulting for the designing and build out of their new website on their pre-selected platform.
VIDA Coffee and Events
Thank you to VIDA Coffee and Events for choosing to work with Bragiel Global Consulting for the designing and build out of their new website on their pre-selected platform.
Virginia Fire Chiefs Association Website Project Management
Assisted the Virginia Fire Chiefs Association (VFCA) with the development of their new website. This included assistance with developing and sending out a Request for Proposal, assistance with reviewing and assessing the proposals, setting up meetings to assist in the evaluation of proposals, and project management during the build out and creation of the website.
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Bragiel Global Consulting acted as a partner to assist the VFCA throughout the entire process of creating, developing, and transitioning to their new website.
The International Association of Fire Chief's Volunteer Combination Officers Section Quarterly Newsletter.
A special thank you to the Volunteer and Combination Officers Section for choosing BGC to put together their following quarterly newsletters:
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Social Media Management Part 1 Workshop
If you are expecting this to be your normal social media ‘how-to’ class, you will be pleasantly surprised to learn that this is nothing at all like normal. This session is very hands-on with a great deal of audience participation and small group work.
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Effectively engaging your target audiences on social media to recruit, retain or educate them requires strategic thought to conduct effectively. This class will take you through the process of creating a strategic plan for social media and provide you with the tools to take back to your department to enhance and improve your social media presence.
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Formerly called Leveraging Social Media for Retention, Recruitment and Education
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Presented at:
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Stafford County (Virginia) Fire and Rescue Department
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European Associations Summit 2020
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The Volunteer and Combination Officers Section of the International Association of Fire Chiefs' Symposium in the Sun 2021
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LSFA 119th Annual Conference, July 23-27, 2024 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Leveraging Social Media to Your Department's Advantage Webinar
COVID-19 has emphasized the importance of social media. While we are adapting to this new world, many departments are finding themselves at a loss on how they can leverage the digital world to their advantage. If your department has been thrown for a loop and is looking for valuable information on how they can leverage social media for retaining, recruiting, fundraising and more then you should attend this webinar.
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Learn:
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Why you should be utilizing social media
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How to utilize it for public education, events and fundraising
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How to build a positive community connection
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How to leverage it for retention and recruitment
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This webinar was for the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association's Volunteer and Combination Officers Committee
Social Media Management Part 2 Workshop
Part 1 of Managing Social Media focused on creating a strategic social media plan that helped you understand your department's brand, bandwidth, target audience and using SMART goals to measure success. Part 2 will focus on using strategic communications tactics to effectively communicate on social media with your audience based on your goals, message and the social platform you are using.
This is a highly interactive session that will require attendees to be creative, interactive and collaborative. It is designed for a more advanced communicator.
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Presented at VCOS's Symposium in the Sun 2021
Coming Soon
Social Media 101
Do you know what the most popular social media platform is for teens in households with an annual income of under $30,000 is? Learn this and other important information to help you find the correct social media platform for your organization.
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In this interactive webinar we go over the key information and target audiences of each of the major social media platforms to help you get started and find success.
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This webinar is currently being developed, but available for scheduling! Reach out to us at jennybragiel@gmail.com to host this webinar.