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5 Hacks for Decision Making
Not being able to make decisions can create paralysis in your life. Indecision can cost you your business, end relationships and make even the easiest of activities complex. Often, if you can’t make a decision then you are probably afraid of something. Before you can begin to consider your options, you need to lose the fear. […]
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Posted in Leadership, Management | Tagged commstorm.com, decision making, decisions |
Visual Meetings – How To Bring Meetings To Life
Several years ago I was at a conference on systems thinking (essentially, understanding how things connect) and during the plenary sessions I noticed that tucked away to one side was a woman busily working on capturing the meeting proceedings in images. I was mesmerized. As the session progressed I kept looking from her to the […]
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Posted in Communications, Management | Tagged commstorm.com, creativity, meetings, productivity |
Getting the angle right, your personal brand photo
I was thinking about pictures the other day, pictures of scones to be precise and wondering how I wanted to set the scene for them. What props would work, what lighting would be good, how would I convey quality? It struck me that I was more worried about how the food would look than most […]
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Posted in Communications, public relations | Tagged branding, commstorm.com, Debra Yearwood, LinkedIn, photos, selfie |
5 Lessons on Advocating with Social Media
I initially wrote this post back in 2013, but a number of factors made me think it was worth another look. The election of Donald Trump and his love of Twitter The creation of “alternative facts” Concerns about fake news and Facebook’s algorithms If you’re wondering about the last point, then consider that your newsfeed […]
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Posted in Communications, Government Relations | Tagged advocating, commstorm.com, government relations, messages, social media |
Body Language – Managing You, So You Can Deliver Your Message
Your body can give away secrets you’d never dream of sharing, so when going into a meeting or presentation, take the time to note your body language and the body language of those around you. Even if you are presenting to a large gathering, you can get a sense of the room based on […]
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Posted in Communications, Government Relations | Tagged body language, commstorm.com, messages, presentations |
We Are Built For Change
When you work in the health sector, you know that something new is always around the corner. When you do communications in the health sector, you’d be lucky to get to the corner without something changing. Change is not just inevitable, it happens faster all the time, we do not walk forward, we leap. At […]
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Posted in Internal Communications, Management | Tagged Change management, commstorm.com, Organizational Change |
Valuable Repetition
If you were lost at sea, would you send your distress signal once? I watched a man move two chairs off a truck. He maneuvered his way through the glass doors of a cafe, around the sign welcoming patrons, down the hall and out of sight. He came back empty handed and headed out […]
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Posted in Communications | Tagged commstorm.com, effective communications, messages, Repetition |
Anticipation
We all live in anticipation of something, the next episode, the next cup, the next job, the next client, the next follower. Anticipation is one of the more unusual emotions we can have. It plays delicately along the line of pleasure and pain. It can consume, and even overwhelm us until we just can’t wait […]
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Posted in Communications | Tagged Anticipation, commstorm.com |
Going Viral, It’s As Easy As 1,2,3
If you were tasked with the job of making an organisation’s message go viral, what would you do? Where would you start? I was wondering just that the other day, it’s something I think all marketing professionals wonder about and we’d all like to see at least one campaign go crazy (or if we’re honest, […]
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Posted in Communications, public relations | Tagged commstorm.com, social media, Viral marketing, YouTube |
8 Tips On What To Do In A Communications Crisis And 9 Tips On What Not To Do
Last updated August 2017 Every year I watch in amazement as a few organizations and a few celebrities stumble into a communications crisis in the media. My amazement isn’t over the incidents that triggered the crisis’, though many of them would certainly give you pause, but rather over the way the crisis’ is managed. The […]
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Posted in Communications, public relations | Tagged commstorm.com, communications, communications crisis |