Five Steps to Creating Captivating Employee Podcasts
Podcasts are more popular than ever – after all, you can listen anywhere and they offer a welcome alternative to the daily flood of text. And they’re an excellent tool…
6 Tips for Writing Concise Emails
Mark Twain once said, “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Writing succinctly takes thought. And thought takes time. Approach your…
Crisis Communications: It’s Not Just for Businesses
It’s inevitable that at some point, your business or organization will face a crisis. You can’t predict it, you don’t know what or how it will happen – but you…
5 Public Speaking lessons I learned in College that will Always Apply
Public Speaking. Those two words can cause anxiety in novice presenters and even the most experienced of public speakers. As a Communications major at Temple University, presentations are pretty hard…
The Truth about Honesty in Communications
While Hurricane Florence itself was no laughing matter, many people did have a good chuckle watching the video of a Weather Channel reporter intensely bracing for the storm while two…
Six Rules for Conference Call Etiquette
Everyone has conference call horror stories, including me. Last week, I was on a conference call with a team of people traveling in a car that got lost and spent…
Top 4 Internal Communications Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace report reveals that just 15% of employees worldwide are engaged in their jobs, so it’s not surprising that boosting employee engagement is often…
Is it Time for a Communications Refresh?
As you are planning and budgeting for 2018, take a good look at your internal communications to see if it might be time for a refresh. You’d be hard-pressed to…
Fear Not Internal Communicators: Data is your Friend
Internal communications, like all business functions, continues to evolve at the speed of the Internet. Overseeing multiple channels of delivery and compiling the data they generate is a frightening new…
How to Spot Your “Passenger-seat” Communications Consultant
My family knows that when given the choice between driving or riding “shotgun” on an outing or trip in the car, I’ll choose the passenger seat every time. It’s not…
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