A division commander recently told me he was going to pull the PAOs in the Brigades and subordinate units, up to Division Headquarters. He had a few good reasons –
A division commander recently told me he was going to pull the PAOs in the Brigades and subordinate units, up to Division Headquarters. He had a few good reasons –
Commanders, I wrote you before but I wanted to introduce you to your new PAO. She’s smart and versatile. Believe it or not, she’s been specially selected for this job.
We’ve received some pretty good feedback on our recent rant about social media. Here’s more. Did you hear about the Chinese continued crackdown on Hong Kong’s rights? I have too.
Good news public affairs friends, PAOs are professional communication coaches. We coach our bosses and members of our organization to communicate effectively internally and externally. Often we are the ones
Writing for MaxDis has helped me realize, communicating so the audience understands is hard. We should never assume the information we’re sharing is accepted and understood, it’s likely not. The
Fun staff activity: after a few months of training and deployment, my brigade staff leaders and I shared enough inside jokes and recurring observations to fill a few bingo cards.
Over the past year I was fortunate enough to have a strong Non Commissioned Officer and friend who told me the truth- All the time and for the benefit of
I went to a concert a few days ago. Even though people paid a lot of money and traveled from far away places the times, during the concert, when they
You know the extra lame command messages we see on AFN and all around? The ones where the commander reads something next to the senior enlisted guy then at the
The first time Dave B. and I drafted a Public Affairs strategy together, we included an outline of our organization’s “key” audiences: Students. Graduates. Potential recruits. Retirees. The American people.