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Category: Standard Practice

Leadership Communication / Standard Practice

Sibling Synchronicity

Within your organization, there are most likely several functions within Communications, including Public Relations, Internal Comms, and Exec Comms. PR is primarily external-facing. Internal Comms is primarily internal-facing. Exec Comms …

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Self-Awareness for Exec Comms Pros (or Selves Awareness, More Like)

Every corporate communications role requires lots of emotional intelligence, self-awareness. But surely none requires more interpersonal athleticism than that of the executive communicator, who must fluidly navigate a huge range …

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Easy Come, Easy Go: A Checklist for Handling Leadership Transitions Smoothly and Strategically

Leadership transitions are inevitable, and often all too frequent: Executives leave the organization, and new executives join. Major changes like these can be disruptive to the business, but you play …

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It’s (Still) the Content, Stupid

It wasn’t long ago that “executive communication” was basically synonym—or a euphemism—for “executive speechwriting.” No longer: As an Executive Communicator, you are constantly flexing across a vast and varied range …

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On the Road Again: How to Prepare an Executive for a Productive Trip

Most likely, the executive you support is often on the road meeting with customers, employees, partners, press and other key audiences in order to advance the goals of the organization. …

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Collaboration Skills: In Exec Comms, Your Superpower or Your Kryptonite

You hear it a lot when you spend time with veterans of executive communications: A skillset every bit as foundational as communication, in this business, is collaboration. Really? Why is …

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How to Produce a Best-in-Class Briefing Document

This is the first edition of a monthly column we’re calling “Standard Practice.” Written by veteran executive communication director Kari Matalone, this is an attempt to broadly share some basic …

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