Business and military leaders will tell you to have a good network – just check LinkedIn. You need professional colleagues who know and respect you and your work. Studies show
Business and military leaders will tell you to have a good network – just check LinkedIn. You need professional colleagues who know and respect you and your work. Studies show
Ever get that sense that your organization is sick of hearing from you? Pay attention to this feeling. Your leaders’ publicaffairsometer might be getting full. I love talking about news
Before modern social media, my college fraternity shared a group e-mail listserv, for planning and buffoonery. If you wrote more than three lines, you‘d be shamed. Nobody wanted to read
Nobody accuses Disney World of overdoing it. The sights, sounds and smells are carefully planned to suck you in. Even the trash cans are decorated to match the surrounding theme.
As PAOs, we should either be helping our boss and the members of our organization prepare to talk or talking ourselves. Preparation is key; normally, it is the audience who
Find PAOs — keep ‘em close. Recently Grant Neeley said to get in the game. Tearing down walls and building bridges through networking is a great way to get and
When I wrote this post, I’d just put my family’s Christmas decorations and seasonal toys away in the attic. I know this summer’s North Carolina heat will make the toys’
Time is our only limited resource. I’ve had a few jobs where we were consistently pressed for time. At a national command, even during 24 hours per day, 7 day
I have a mentor who habitually discusses the need to ‘get to yes’. It isn’t a new concept but with his tone and inflection, I can believe he coined it.
“Great operation, but where are the photos?” – Senior commanders, mostly. Top people care about releasing photos and videos about successful military operations. Not all and not all the time,