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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.
Join us in this ongoing conversation about creating effective leadership communications with strategies and tactics that foster understanding and motivate people to act.
An Iguana Gave Me a Lesson on The Perils of Snap Judgments
This guy scared me, until I found out he is a vegetarian. A trip to the Galapagos introduced me to this character whom I’ll call Iggy. When I first saw him, I had to fight the urge to scream.
Show Me The Love At Work
It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air. It may seem odd to talk about love in a business setting but when we love our clients, our colleagues, our teams, and our partners and they love us back, it makes work not seem like work. It is about healthy and strong work relationships, and the best way to build authentic connections is by showing those most critical to your success, some love. Here’s how.
Is Your Communications Strategy Ready for the New Year?
With 2023 in the rear view mirror, what does 2024 hold? If you haven’t updated your communications strategy, now is the perfect time to do so. And if you don’t have a communications plan, it isn’t too late.
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.
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
Liz Wainger says:
Liz Wainger says:
Liz Wainger says: