Why Your Storytelling Fails to Connect and How to Fix It
Businesses are jumping on the storytelling bandwagon and so many aren’t doing it well. Here are some ways to use storytelling to captivate your stakeholders.
How to Build a Powerful, Amazing Brand
Building a powerful brand is so much more than about advertising and social media. This blog offers practical tips to make your brand amazing.
The Most Important Question You Have to Answer
If your stakeholders are asking: "Why should I believe you?", you have lost their trust if you ever had it. Trust is the foundation of business relationships. Find out how you can build trust with those most important to you.
How to Care for Others in Need
When the chips are down, people want to help but they don't know how. Taking cues from SMART strategic planning, this blog post offers some practical advice on how to deliver SMART support to colleagues and others facing personal or professional crises.
So You Want to Be a Thought Leader
Thought leadership can increase your visibility and build your credibility in the marketplace. But here's the rub: to be a thought leader, you have to have thoughts that matters. Find out the seven things you need to do to establish yourself and your company as a thought leader.
The Simple Truth to Avoid Communication Crashes
The communications patterns we learn from our families, and later interactions at school or university, on sports teams, at our first job, and from mass media, shape the way we see and react to the world. It’s within our families or our grade-school interactions that we develop patterns of communication that drive how we connect or don't with others. Understanding these patterns can prevent communications crashes.
The Truth: The Most Important Business (and National) Resource
The truth has always been elusive, And, now, in the age of social media, algorithms expose us only to information and beliefs that conform to and reinforce our own beliefs. Alternative facts masquerade as reality. The truth is even harder to discern. In our work and home lives, we must make the effort to actively seek the truth and protect it as a valuable business and national resource.
Are You Flipping the Most Powerful Side of Your Message Coin?
When it comes to framing messages, conventional wisdom says going negative is best. But sometimes sounding the negative note isn't the one that will get your point across. Knowing which side of the message coin to flip--positive or negative--is key.
Stop Wasting My Time with Your Useless Video
As more and people companies turn to video to tell their stories, they waste their viewer's time with boring and irrelevant content. Get your audiences to tune in by following these three simple tips.
Business Messaging: Avoid the Epic Fail
Most business messaging fails because it speaks to what we do not why it matters to our audience. Break out of the list maker syndrome that ticks off all the products and services you offer. Instead, make your case by talking about great things that can and will happen with and through you. Get people excited about the big things so that they understand why all the smaller things you do every day are so important—and how they fit into making things better for the people you need and want to reach most.