Month: September 2013

On September 28, 2013 I had the opportunity to conduct an employee engagement masterclass workshop at PRAXIS, a PR and Corporate Communications conference held at Lavasa in Pune, India. You can also look up my tweets from the event. Employee engagement is currently a one-way street. Organizations have taken on the onus to retain staff, […]

Employee engagement is a hot topic and with every anticipated economic slowdown the cries for making it a priority get shriller. What makes this subject intriguing is not just how organizations view the subject but the ambiguity surrounding ownership and strategies that can make it real. In my workshop at PRAXIS 2013 on Saturday, September […]

Starting out in your new assignment and don’t know where to begin? Especially in roles such as communications you may not always have all the context to get your act together and that can be a challenge. Here are a few perspectives to get you up and running. Understand the maturity of the function: Gauge […]

Sharing an article on cross-cultural communications that I recently co-authored with Priya Thyagaraj of Touchpoint Communications for Simply-Communicate. // http://lnkd.in/uViJMV Interested to hear your thoughts.

In a new role and already experiencing ‘performance’ pressure? Many organizations and teams expect communicators to be on the ‘ball’ from Day 1. It make communicators feel inadequate if they don’t ‘deliver the goods’ right from the word go. One of the best pieces of advice a leader once shared with me was to take […]