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Communication, Soggy Tomatoes and Darth Vader
How we communicate (or don’t) can mean the difference between sitting with the cool kids at lunch, and lunching alone on a soggy tomato sandwich.
To Tell or To Teach?
One question that our clients keep coming back to us with lately is: when do you tell somebody the solution and when do you teach them to find the answer themselves?
Productive Conversations: Are You Having The Conversations You Should Be?
Recently I’ve been facilitating staff engagement across the state for an organisation that genuinely wants to improve staff satisfaction.
How Disaster Management is Impacting Engagement
In the past decade, across Australia a significant number of major disasters; including floods, fires, cyclones and storm surges; have caused billions of dollars damage to city and towns.
Change and the Power of Engagement
If there is one underlying message from both the recent election in Queensland and the rumblings surrounding a potential change of Prime Minister in Canberra it is that party powerbrokers believe that in both cases they have struggled to ‘sell their message”.
New Year’s Resolutions for Communication Professionals
Ah, January. A time for making New Year’s Resolutions. February – a time for breaking them!
If you want to make a New Year’s Work Resolution that will make your working year simpler, and a resolution you’re likely to stick to, then consider one of these:
Engaging Mental Health Patients in Reform – What Happens When the Right People are in the Room
Community Engagement for Mental Health – What Happens When The Right People Are In the Room?
Why fly-throughs are yesterday’s technology
A TV producer recently said to me, “I’m assuming you’ve got a fly-through so can you send that on to us.” The answer of course, was yes.
Top 10 reasons people reject change
For some of us, change is exciting; for most people, change is something to fear and for others, change is terrifying and they will reject it.
