Don’t Leave Your Audience Behind
We communicate to share our ideas and co-create. It doesn’t matter if we write a public article or an email to our colleagues; our goal is to take our thoughts and pass them on to …
Comments 2.0
For obvious reasons, we give more attention to the content we create and share with the world than our comments and responses. Whether it is a post on Social Media or an email we send …
Your Presentation Should Come Last, Part 3
In the past two editions, I argued that presentations don’t make our meetings effective. They mightbe helpful, but they should be the last thing we consider when preparing a meaningful discussion. After we define what we …
Your Presentation Should Come Last, Part 2
Yesterday, I argued that presentations don’t make our meetings effective. They might be helpful, but they should be the last thing we consider when preparing an important discussion. So, how should we prepare for a meeting if …
Your Presentation Should Come Last, Part 1
Most people feel most of their workplace meetings are ineffective. If you think you have too many meetings, you are probably right. But keep in mind that “too many meetings” really means “too many ineffective …
Shifting Gears
Everybody is obsessed with short, snappy content. We somehow got the sense that our collective attention span is shorter than that of a goldfish, and writing anything longer than what you can see on a …
My Lens for 2023
I don’t like new year’s resolutions. New year’s resolutions rarely work for me, and I suspect they rarely work in general. Goals are important and help us see a clear target to pursue. My problem …
Generative Communication
Generative communication should have been a tautology. Communication should have been a means to achieve things together by definition. Unfortunately, today more than ever, communication is fractured, continuous, spontaneous, unfocused, and shallow. Instead of enabling …