Comms should be at your top table

By Darren Caveney | 30 May 2023

Darren Caveney sets out three of the key reasons why your comms lead should sit on your weekly senior management table

T he top table. It’s a funny phrase isn’t it? It reminds me of family weddings I’d tried to dodge. Or, worse still, being sat at the top table at a wedding and feeling detached from the rest of the guests.

In the world of local government communications it’s a mixed picture in terms of whether the most senior comms person is sat at their senior management team’s (SMT) top table each week.

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