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Thinking differently about communication at work. My left-brain says I'm an internal communications professional but my right brain says I'm a storyteller, a meaning-maker, an alchemist, a translator, a river-jumper, a comedian, a hedgehog (! An innovator, an organisational shepherd and an artist, which frankly I prefer. We should all beware of experts. Of course, it was the dustmen, with the finance ministers trailing in last place. A study of 82,000 predictions by 284 experts over a 16 year period ...
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Why your next project is doomed from the start | Creative Communicator
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Thinking differently about communication at work. Why your next project is doomed from the start. You have an important meeting next Wednesday. Your boss sends you an email to say the meeting is being moved forwards by two days. So do you put it in the diary for Monday or Friday? Well there’s a psychology at play here. If you see events in the future as moving towards. Most of us would choose the quick/boring task first. We’d put the time-consuming task off in the (mistaken) belief that by then we’d ...
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Why disengaged workers take the biscuit | Creative Communicator
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Thinking differently about communication at work. Why disengaged workers take the biscuit. This experiment highlights the very thin line between engagement and disengagement but it also shows the benefits of a smile and a kind word. I often use this story with managers to emphasise that sometimes it’s the little things that matter. It also offers a low cost way of testing engagement put some warm cookies in the office on a busy day and see how fast they go! Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).
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Books | Creative Communicator
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Thinking differently about communication at work. Quiet by Susain Cain. Oh, what a lovely, lovely book. My best read of the year. This book is all about the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking. An introvert herself, Cain has been credited with starting a ‘quiet revolution’ with her fascinating and sensitive celebration of introversion. F. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Why do some relationships just ‘click’ from the first second. A great read for brain geeks. You’ll need to give yous...
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When even clunky PowerPoint works! | Creative Communicator
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Thinking differently about communication at work. When even clunky PowerPoint works! Earlier that morning I finished reading a book about ‘simplicity’ and how to overcome the crisis of complexity that is sweeping across our lives and workplaces. This is something us communicators can relate to only so well, even though we’re often the ones creating the complexity by communicating too much. Here’s a good quote from the book*:. Simple by Alan Siegel and Irene Etzkorn. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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Vision statements are like Fridays | Creative Communicator
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Thinking differently about communication at work. Vision statements are like Fridays. And if it’s true, why do we see overt optimism as a sign of weakness or naivety? Apparently when you ask people to rank the days in the week in terms of preference, they rate Friday higher than Sunday, even though Friday is a work day and Sunday is not. Saturday is always tops, but why do people prefer Friday to Sunday? In the workplace, optimism flows freely from boardrooms and business cases we will. Click to share on...
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We should all beware of experts | Creative Communicator
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Thinking differently about communication at work. We should all beware of experts. CEOs and senior business leaders are increasingly placing their trust in experts such as academics, consultants and technical experts. A 2011 report from the Edelman group points to a dramatic rise in leaders turning to ‘credentialed spokespeople’, so-called experts. But is ‘expertise’ really all it’s cracked up to be? A 2012 challenge run by. Pitted a team of professional investment advisors against a ginger cat called Or...
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Ten ways | Creative Communicator
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Thinking differently about communication at work. 1 Go to an art gallery. Exercise your right brain by looking at a painting; it’s a great non-linear way to take in a message. When we look at paintings we don’t start at the top and read left to right, our eyes wander randomly and we build the story from what we gather. We can learn from that. 2 Watch Star Wars. 3 Read Shakespeare, or if you prefer, watch it. 4 Be a hedgehog. 5 Be less creative. That’s right, be more creative by being less. Creative. ...
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How To Be A Better Communicator | About the Authors
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Skip to main content. Skip to main navigation. Chris Carey and Dave Oliver are two of the UK's leading independent internal communications and employee engagement consultants, with almost 30 years combined experience in the field.
