How to Create a Personal Communication Strategy
Here are the most important skills that the best communicators have mastered. And the good news is that they are skills you can learn, too!
Posts Tagged: communication
How to Use Community Organizing Tools to Power Innovation
The following are community organizing tools that carry over into the government technology space and have helped me be a more effective innovator.
Performance Appraisal: Partnering with Your Team
All too often we look at performance appraisal as the end of a year, a summary. However, when we flip our mindset to view them as a tool to improve communication with our teams, they become a beginning.
Virtues of Government Service: Number 9 – Trust
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
The Power of Being Assertive
There’s no shortage of advice and articles detailing how you can be more assertive as a woman in the workplace. Learn these tips from FEW.
Fake News and Spin Saturation
Overtly false information is not the only kind containing hidden agendas. Long before the most recent scandals, our once trusted sources were already compromised with advertising, spin, and ulterior motives.
Virtues of Government Service – Number 8: Values-Based Decision-making
Success in business and life is largely determined by the choices that we make. Here are ways you can improve your decision-making process.
The 7 Barriers of Communication
When we talk, we tend to erect barriers that hinder our ability to communicate. There are seven of these types of barriers to effective communication.
Presentation Hacks to Engage Your Audience
The equivalence of this in my adult life is being read to from a PowerPoint presentation that I could, you know, read myself. We’ve all been in those presentations, trainings or meetings. The presenter hands out a stapled version of the PowerPoint that’s on the screen. And then they read it to you. Verbatim. Don’t… Read more »
(S) vs. (N) – Beyond Introversion and Extroversion
If you know the Meyers Briggs personality test, you may know all four of your temperament indicators. But how does the (S) vs. (N) breakdown affect you?