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When Stakes Rise, Preparation Speaks

Trust Must Be Built Before the Crisis Hits

Trust is rarely forged in the middle of a crisis. By the time leaders are facing a hostile headline, an internal investigation, or a tense stakeholder meeting, trust has already been earned—or lost—based on how consistently and credibly they’ve communicated long before the pressure arrived.

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Is Your Leadership Communication 2026-Ready?

Strong starts set the tone for the year. 

As the calendar resets, many leaders turn their attention to goals, metrics, and strategic priorities. Yet one of the most critical drivers of success is often overlooked in New Year planning: how those goals are communicated. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The CommCore Observer: Be in the Room Where it Happens in 2024

Let’s look at several news events from 2023 to help identify corporate communications trends, and set communications goals for 2024:

  • One Congressional Hearing Brings Down Two Ivy League Presidents. Commentary about the Congressional testimony from the presidents of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and MIT lambasted the event as a byproduct of over-lawyering and the two presidents’ failure to respond well to aggressive, if not fully predictable, questioning.
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