Wainger Wisdom
In this blog, we explore what it takes to engage, inspire and connect whether you are building a personal or organizational brand. Join us in this ongoing conversation about creating effective leadership communications with strategies and tactics that foster understanding and motivate people to act.
7 Tips for Expressing an Attitude of Gratitude
These days the thank you note and other expressions of attitudes of gratitude can sometimes seem like an endangered species. Expressing thanks is an important part of social well being. Here are some tips for how to do it right.
Avoid Black and White and Embrace Gray Thinking
We live in a world where everything seems to be “either/or.” It’s “Us vs. Them” “For or Against.” “My way or the highway.” Polarized communication is destroying us. We have to stop focusing on black and white thinking and move toward gray thinking.
Delivering Bad News In a Good Way
Bad things happen to good companies and organizations. While most organizations worry about their reputation externally, it is equally important to make sure you are communicating to the people who are responsible for that reputation – your employees. Here are some tips to deliver bad news in a good way.
6 Tips for Better Internal Communication
One of the biggest challenges for organizations is speaking with a consistent and compelling voice. Silos abound, and even enterprises with a positioning platform find it difficult for their internal communication strategy to take hold in their organization.
Don’t Neglect Your Most Important Audience: Your Team
Enterprises spend millions on external branding, messaging and websites while neglecting their most important audiences–their own employees.
6 Ways to Spot Communications Fraud
Every day we are bombarded with false messages that try to capture our attention and get into our wallets or our hearts. Creative scammers armed with sophisticated technology manipulate audio and video and make it harder and harder to determine what’s authentic. What’s real?
Authentic Communication Is The Antidote to Deep Fakes and AI
Authenticity matters. Lying and truth distortion are nothing new. But at a time when technology can mimic our image, our voice, and our words – and create doppelgangers that appear more real than ourselves
Empowering Employees with Open Communication
When a friend of mine recently retired from the job she held for seven years, she decided to be totally honest in her exit interview. Freed from the need for an employer’s reference, she felt comfortable being honest, yet respectful, about why she was leaving—despite their offer of more money and flexibility to stay.
Want to Write Persuasively? Declare Your Editorial Independence
Some years ago, I found myself in editorial purgatory--working on a speech for my boss and going around and around in search of the next great sound bite. Then, after the 13th draft, inspiration struck. I declared editorial independence with a copy of the Declaration of Independence.
6 Ways to Get Comfortable When Feeling Anxious, Threatened and Just Plain Uneasy
Communication apprehension is welling up in you. You are meeting with your boss and presenting your proposal for a new project. Your boss challenges you at every turn and you can’t seem to muster any counter-arguments. Instead of crawling under your desk, use these techniques.
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