As a sole proprietor, part of doing business in the days before COVID involved collaborating with other entrepreneurs and business owners. Sometimes this was paid collaboration and other times it was sharing my expertise as a public relations professional to help others. However, as we all needed to pivot our businesses during COVID, I found the requests to share my…
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How to Bring Senior Leadership Onboard to New Ways of Communicating
Whether I’m working with a client on strategic planning, communications, community engagement or coaching, the question I most commonly get is how do I bring senior leadership onboard to new ways of communicating. While there are leadership teams who embrace change in areas outside of their comfort zone, they are few and far between. For many, communications is an area…
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Understanding Why Authentic Leadership is Important
Leadership is a pretty big buzz word that’s regularly misused – with the terms leadership and management often interchanged (incorrectly). Adding to the mix, the term authentic leadership is also starting to be used more. But what is authentic leadership? Simply put – it’s a person who shows up as their authentic self. It goes beyond taking leadership courses, implementing…
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