Faster at What?
Let’s rip off the band-aid: AI can write a mediocre news release faster, cheaper and better than any of us.
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A Task Force on Risk. Seriously?
I spent a morning of my summer holiday enjoying one of my favourite forms of relaxation: sitting on the dock with a coffee and the paper. That was the scene when I hit the headline “New task force looks to make public service less risk averse” and just about spit my coffee into the lake.
Top signs your communications team is in trouble
When I walk into a room to lead a workshop for a communications team, the feeling I pick up is usually nervous energy, with a twinge of frustration. The vibe is: we’re up to our eyeballs in work, we have fires to put out, so why are we here? And, perhaps more subtly: What if this facilitator uncovers the real reasons things are chronically off-kilter?
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Go Direct
In a low-trust era, executives leading change need more than polished messaging. They need a steady communication cadence, a clear voice and strategic communications partners who help them show up directly.
Capacity vs. capability: what’s the difference?
“We don’t have the capacity for this.” I hear some version of that sentence in nearly every
The enshittification of organizational communications
I am known as a very positive person. When I run workshops, I take pains to encourage
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The Year Change Management Died
One thing we can probably all agree on is that 2026 is off to one hell of
Employee communications isn’t a box. It’s a system.
Most internal communicators don’t struggle because they lack skill, effort, or commitment. They struggle because the work
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Piloting through turbulence
Turbulence is familiar. We’ve all felt it. The sudden dip of a plane. The drop in your
How to use transparency as strategy
Last week I gave a keynote to a group of over 500 communications leaders who are navigating