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9 to 5 Is Dead and Employees Couldn’t Be Happier
The changing cadence of work Have you read about the “Dead Zone” yet? It’s that time between 4:00-6:00pm every day when remote work productivity takes a nosedive. A lot of remote workers log out of their screens to pick up their kids, make dinner, or just take a...
Leaders Think They’re Communicating, Employees Disagree
Employee communications seems to have regressed backwards since the pandemic. That’s unfortunate, because during the early days of Covid 19 leaders ramped up their communication efforts, and trust in leadership increased dramatically. The goodwill that leaders built...
Boring is a Crime: What Corporate Comms Can Learn from Southern Storytellers
My friend Mary Beth from Mobile, Alabama once told me something foundational about Southern culture: “You can commit any number of crimes and still be invited back to a party, except for one: being a bore.” It turns out, that quirky, wonderful aspect of Southern...
AI in Business Communications: What It Can Do and What It Really Can’t
Have you started using AI in business communications yet? The AI text-generator chatbot choices abound: ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft Bing, and so many others. Are these chatbots the greatest invention since the dawn of time? Or the beginning of the end of human...