For Those Who Tilt Toward Words, Here’s How to Improve Your Presentations
…If you gravitate toward logic – I certainly count myself in this category – it can take a conscious effort to insert emotion into a presentation. Yet, it’s a must….
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Execs Struggle with One of the Most Effective Storytelling Techniques
Showing one’s humanity is a sure-fire way to bring a storytelling dimension to communications. Yet, most executives do the exact opposite. They make a conscious effort to hide their humanity….
Stunts, lipstick, pigs, and COP26
…very essence as a collective, based on people and community. Were a less socially conscious chain to attempt this, it could be taken as greenwashing. This is where a tension…
Reflecting on 2021 Performance
…this dynamic. It used to be that we made a conscious effort to limit the number of startup clients due to their volatility. That’s no longer the case as the…
Nailing Your Sales Proposition
…room on the billboard. Perhaps. But I suspect this was a conscious decision to keep the purity of the message. The last thing you want is a tug o’ war…
One Not-so-little Detail Missing from the Debate on Amazon’s Culture
…by the NYT for some time, which doubled the sting. Turning to the PR function I’ve always felt that PR at its best acts as the conscious of a company,…
The Tug of War Between Journalists and the Obama Administration in Defining Transparency
…a conscious effort to leverage emotionally charged words. Hello “suppression.” Still, I like the idea of an ombudsman. It could work just like the role in publications. Oh, that’s right….
Five Storytelling Techniques to Give Business Communications Liftoff
…Humanity Underpins Compelling Storytelling Showing one’s humanity is a sure-fire way to bring a storytelling dimension to communications. Yet, most executives do the exact opposite. They make a conscious effort…
Seven Issues That Can Crush Today’s Business Writing
…how people consume information online. We need to develop online copy with pace (i.e., shorter sentences, conscious choice of verbs, subheads that break up copy, etc.). 3. And mobile is…