Most of us in communication got a degree in a related area of study. We focused on writing, ethics, channels. Unless we went on to b-school, and most of us didn’t, we weren’t introduce to business process study. We just never got the benefit of learning...
Yesterday I posted for Communitelligence’s Communication Skills blog about networking skills. With all the conferences coming up, it’s been on my mind. If networking is on your mind too, check it out.
This week I started contributing to the Communication Skills blog on Communitelligence. Spreadin’ the love. It’s cool to be blogging together with a team, all focused on helping communicators improve their skills. Phil Douglis is talking about visual...
In a session today in Aspen at the Council on Communication Management’s conference, a speaker talked about taking a career mulligan. He asked everyone in the audience to think back on our own mulligans. My first, not my last, was a doozy. I was fresh out of...
I preach a lot about connecting communication strategy and implementation to corporate goals. It’s a drum I beat nearly constantly. But, what do we do when the corporate goal is poorly designed, even irrational? A new study titled Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic...
On the second day of my Dubai workshop this week I asked what the participants most valued from the day before. A young Arab communicator who works for the local chamber of commerce said: “To ask questions before doing messages and planning.” Home run!...
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