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Communications Leadership
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Leaders: Bill Jensen, Elise Roaf, Bill Boyd, Carol Kinsey Goman
Mission: To explore and discover together all aspects of leadership in
business communication, including strategy, planning, crisis, change, culture, information overload
and leader traits.
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Talent is highly overrated
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Posted Mon, May 29, 2006 |
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According to the "Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance," the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated. Or, put another way, expert performers — whether in sports or surgery, ballet or computer programming, music or leadership — are nearly always made, not born.
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Taming the e-mail elephant
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Posted Sat, May 27, 2006 |
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Serious reductions in e-mail overload will require three things: Better tools for in-box management, changing sender behavior, and alternative technologies. Here are eight ways to combat e-mail overload for yourself and your organization: A do-it-yourself kit.
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The Overload Chronicles, Round 2: It's time to get it!
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Posted Sat, May 20, 2006 |
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Are We Part of The Solution or The Problem? VoxPop: Well, InfoGladiator, in the words of one of your own, (a speechwriter for an American president, dubbed the Great Communicator): Therrrrre you go again! 1) Spinning your own importance to us, 2) You’re just not “getting it”, and 3) You completely misunderstand value. Let’s unpack each of those points….
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Innovation, People, and Change Communications
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Posted Tue, May 16, 2006 |
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The company 3M, one of the first organizations to fully embrace innovation as the essence of its corporate brand, defines it as "new ideas - plus action or implementation - which result in an improvement, a gain, or a profit."
Good definition, but it needs another element. People.
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The Overload Chronicles: OPENING ROUND
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Posted Thu, May 11, 2006 |
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InfoGladiator, I’ll hand it to ya. When we — your employees and other stakeholders — want spin, you guys are masters! And when the senior team needs to get a consistent message across, you serve your masters very well.
VoxPop, you think you can live without us? While you’ve had your head in the survey data, internal communications has been evolving.
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What Elephants?
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Posted Tue, May 09, 2006 |
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Have you ever designed or facilitated an all-hands meeting where senior executives addressed an employee audience? If so - did anybody mention the elephants in the room?
Not likely.
Elephants are those forbidden subjects and hard questions that lurk in the back of everyone's mind - and which senior management hopes will go unnoticed.
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Developing Future Leaders
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Posted Mon, May 01, 2006 |
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By the year 2011, the leading edge of the Baby Boom workforce will be 65 years old - eligible for full retirement. And that generation's collective wisdom will leave with them unless it has been transferred to younger employees. Which in turn makes succession planning and knowledge sharing increasing important to an organization's financial strategy.
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Change Communication Tips
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Posted Fri, Apr 21, 2006 |
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Question: What's the secret of real estate?
Answer: Location, location, location.
Question: What's the secret of organizational change?
Answer: Communication, communication, communication.
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The "Unsiloing" of Organizations
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Posted Mon, Apr 03, 2006 |
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In a recent Wall Street Journal article on the latest business buzzwords, the word "unsiloing" was listed. Unsiloing mangles the noun silo to make a simple but important point: Managers must find ways to foster cooperation across departmental, hierarchical, and functional boundaries.
Which is no easy task.
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A Future of Radical Change
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Posted Thu, Mar 30, 2006 |
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According to IBM's Global CEO Study 2006, competitive pressures and global market forces are driving 65% of the world's top executives to plan radical changes at their companies over the next two years.
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Why we need all the leaders we can get
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Posted Wed, Mar 01, 2006 |
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To understand why traditional leadership models no longer work, we need to understand the forces of change affecting our world. As much as they have changed the way we live and do business, these forces have also altered the kind of leadership we need.
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Welcome to Communication Leadership
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Posted Mon, Feb 20, 2006 |
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If you're curious about what leadership is all about, you've come to the right place. Here is where we are going to explore the art of leadership and how it applies to our practice as communicators.
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Work-Life Balance: What Gets in the Way?
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Posted Sat, Feb 04, 2006 |
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Especially noticeable in younger generations, employees are demanding more control of their time -- whether it involves organizationally structured arrangements such as flextime, flex-place, part-time or contractual work, or a corporate culture that stresses results over “face time.” And enterprises that don’t fully support and align with these initiatives will lose a competitive edge in retaining and motivating top talent.
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What's Changed in Change-Management?
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Posted Sun, Jan 08, 2006 |
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Max Ways, the former editor of Fortune magazine, predicted 40 years ago, "The main challenge to U.S. society will turn not around the production of goods, but around the difficulties and opportunities involved in a world of accelerating change and ever widening choice. So swift is the acceleration that trying to 'make sense' of change will become our basic industry."
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