CommCore Blog and News

Master Tough Conversations This Holiday Season (& Beyond)
The holidays bring people together—around conference tables, dinner tables, and sometimes around topics we’d rather avoid. Add end-of-year pressures at work, exhausted teams, and family members with strong opinions, and suddenly even a simple check-in can feel like navigating a communications minefield.
October is CyberSecurity Month: How to avoid MICE in the System
You probably have heard the cybersecurity adage: There are only two types of organizations: Those that have been hacked and know it, and those that have been hacked and don’t.
As October is Cyber Security Awareness month, let’s think about the motivations of cybercriminals with an eye to help you plan and prepare.
Marketing Campaign Longevity: What to Do During “the Fizzle”
It’s Effective Communications Month. Choose to Communicate “On Purpose”
June is effective communications month. Focus on being purposeful and deliberate. If you are going to take your own and others’ time, it might as well be on purpose. Whether it is an informal, internal meeting, or a keynote address to hundreds of people, an effective communicator is clear, concise, and compelling.
The CommCore Observer: It Shouldn’t Take a Bridge Collapse to Update a Crisis Plan
As the Port of Baltimore slowly reopens to commercial traffic and the delicate process of removing the massive steel pieces from what is left of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, it’s not too early to find crisis communications lessons from how information about the disaster was disseminated. Read more
The CommCore Observer: Speaking Out – It’s Complicated
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review How Companies Should Weigh in on a Controversy starts with parallel stories of Bud Light and transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, and Brazilian cosmetics company Natura and its sponsorship of a transgender actor Thammy Miranda. Read more
Client Spotlight: The First Black Rockette Looks to CommCore for Media Training
For the February issue of The Observer, CommCore reached out to client Jennifer Jones, an acclaimed performer, cancer survivor, author, and the first Black Rockette in the world, of the renowned Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. Read more
The CommCore Observer: Be in the Room Where it Happens in 2024
The CommCore Observer: Apologies “AND” – Don’t just say you’re sorry
The recent uproar about changes to Delta Airlines Sky Miles program and apologies from CEO Ed Bastian got us thinking yet again about when and how to apologize, with the added emphasis on the word “AND” – AND what are you going to do about it? Read more



