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Explore insights, how-to tips, trends, and best practices from our team of internal communications experts. All our blog posts are original content written by our writers, consultants, and interns.
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Talking about Mental Health at Work: 3 Tips to Make It Easier
Our mental health is just as important as our physical health, and it affects how we perform at work. So why aren’t we talking about it there? We’d tell our boss if we had a cold or surgery coming up. But bringing up our emotional wellness? For any of us that feels like crossing a…
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5 Tips to Help Your Team Build Storytelling Skills
By Laura Singer, Senior Communication Consultant Storytelling is a terrific tool to engage an audience—whether that audience is a single business partner in another function or an employee population of thousands. For most people, telling stories in a business environment doesn’t come naturally, because it requires un-learning a lot of the ways we’ve been taught…
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5 Reasons Why Storytelling Works at Work
By Laura Singer, Senior Communication Consultant True story: Once there was a leadership team for a support function in a large global corporation. All the members were asked to create a story that communicated the value their work brought to the enterprise. But all came up short. Their stories lacked characters, emotions and a narrative…
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For Valentine’s Day (and Every Day)… A Reminder to K.I.S.S.
We’re all familiar with the concept of K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Stupid (or more politely, Keep It Short and Simple). We could add yet another variation: Keep It Short and Scannable. Information overload is relentless, with another whole set of messaging around the pandemic and its effect on the workplace heaped onto other corporate…
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Can You Pay Attention Longer Than A Goldfish?
Communication Tips to Get Your Employees to Take Action By CB Morris, Senior Communication Consultant The coronavirus pandemic continues to provide employees with countless distractions that tax their already brief attention spans. Research before the pandemic had human attention span at 8 seconds – which is less than the attention span of a goldfish (9…
