Communication
Give Customers a Digital Newsroom & Add Value to Your Site
A digital newsroom can help you discover what users are saying about your brand and industry as well as any gaps in your site’s content, providing an opportunity to reach users using their questions and…
5 Ways to Lead Through the Coronavirus Crisis
Small businesses are especially vulnerable during this latest public health crisis. Supply chain issues, voluntary social distancing by customers, fear among employees about short term layoffs (not to mention their own health concerns) and financial…
7 Tips to Ask Better Questions
Regardless of your role or circumstance, asking great questions is a fundamental way to up your communication skills. A great question has the power to shift the dynamic of a conversation, help you gain clarity…
How to Replace Email with Texting for Team Communications
When seeking to better reach your company team members, consider strategically replacing emails with text communication. A recent study found that 60.8% of respondents ignore emails at work—that’s almost two thirds. Additionally, 30% of respondents…
Why Video Explanations Are More Impactful Than Emails
Have you ever wished an email was shorter, easier to read, or maybe replaced by something more visual and easier to digest? Whether internal or client-facing, short videos can be incredibly impactful, hold your viewers’…
7 Common Causes of Failure to Communicate in Business
Most business mentors tell me that the single biggest problem they have to deal with in small companies is the lack of open, honest, and effective communication, both from the top down and from the…
3 Internal Communication Trends to Plan for Now
John F. Kennedy said it best, “Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” JFK hit the nail on the head,…
Expert Tips for Managing Remote Teams, Part II
This article is part two of the series on managing remote teams. Please see part one here. 5. Go the extra mile with praise. As noted previously, body language doesn’t translate well over distance. Sure,…
Expert Tips for Managing Remote Teams
In many ways, managing a remote team is like managing a team in your office. The main difference is distance. But that distance removes some aspects of in-person interactions—like body language—that help make connections and…
The Hidden Benefit of Transparency
Lately, we have been focusing on the “mea culpa” ads that we’re seeing all over the media. Wells Fargo, Facebook, and Uber are some of the big brands that have actively run apology campaigns. The…
