10 (Relatively) Painless Icebreakers for Your Next Meeting
To make your next meeting a bit less cringe-worthy, here are 10 suggestions for easy, fun, and relatively painless icebreakers.
Communications
From Down the Hall: Here’s How to Make Sure Executives, Managers and Employees Get Each Other’s Message
Remember the game telephone? One person whispers a message into the next person’s ear and that person whispers to the next, all the way down the line until the message no longer makes sense? That’s how communication within a large organization can feel sometimes.
8 Sanity-Saving Questions for Federal Web Managers
Questions to ask yourself to make sure your website is actually effective.
Cookbooks for Facebook and Twitter Reports
Social media reporting can be intimidating because it’s perceived as difficult to do. I try to simplify things as much as possible so that people will actually read my reports. Social media metrics only work if they are simple and easy to follow.
How to Give an Amazing Webinar
These tips will help you feel more confident the next time you present on a webinar so that you can laugh off any glitches and continue on with style.
6 Tips to Design Better PowerPoints
Lots of things can go wrong when designing PowerPoints. Let’s talk about how to make PowerPoints right.
Re-imagining the Press Release Through Data
Admit it, press releases rarely work. King County, Wash., is now tracking data to learn which reporters are interested in specific subjects.
Communication Tips From Actors, Production Crews, and 4-Year Olds
Utilizing three ideas – the emotional check-in, the creation of a safe environment for truth, and utilizing a series of what’s good/what needs work questions (and waiting for the team to answer, not me) – might be an approach worth trying in the workplace.
The Best and Worst at Plain Language in Government
Which federal agencies should you look to as models of plain language? Which ones are getting it wrong and why?
Lessons Learned from the Big Bang Theory
We are all different and sometimes we don’t understand why what is second nature to us, doesn’t make sense to someone else.