Death by PowerPoint – we’ve all experienced it: the dreadful, visually jarring, over-complex, long, boring PowerPoint presentation… Why is this amazing tool so horribly misused?
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This is a humbling home truth that my father would quote to my brothers and I when we were young... By Saxon White Kessinger
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Do you have to get up and speak in front of groups sometimes? And does it stress you out? You know what? You're not alone!
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A job - any job - is infinitely easier when done with the right tools. It's perhaps not completely impossible to paint a wall with a screwdriver, but it is a great deal easier to do it with a paint brush…
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Posts from Communications specialists like myself are mostly oriented towards big important-sounding skills: leadership, team-building, conflict resolution, negotiation... And while these are critical skills that need developing, the reality of the work environment is that 99% of the time, we are not focussed on such lofty ideals, but rather are just getting on with the job and interacting with our colleagues.
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The other day I heard the point of view that Australian companies are losing interest in developing their staff’s "soft skills" because they have their eyes set on a future where IT will streamline, facilitate or replace many of the functions that are currently seen as needing such skills. This is a dangerous and erroneous notion…
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Good #HumanCommunication skills massively improve employee engagement, encouraging innovation and dynamism, fostering collaboration and maximising productivity.
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Given the fact that we all use language constantly, it's baffling the number of nonsense myths that have been propagated about it through the ages and that still are propagated now.
Here are 8 of my personal (double-plus) un-favourites!
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As technology allows us to increasingly avoid the development of human communication skills, so these changing demands on work practices make such skills more important than ever!
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Read More"The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us." (S. I. Hayakawa, 1939)