By Michel Koopman January 05, 2024 The sophisticated and often nuanced manner in which leaders communicate is pivotal in forging or fracturing relationships with employees, colleagues, and stakeholders. As a Dutch-American CEO and founder, I’ve painstakingly navigated the intricacies of direct and transparent communication, learning to intricately balance forthrightness with empathy. The Dutch are … Continue reading I’m not rude, just direct. Here’s how I learned to communicate with care
The fintech company adopted a warehouse-first approach to drive personalization and insights across channels. Chris Wood on August 15, 2023 Financial services tech company Chime is digitally mature due to the security and regulatory compliance required in the sector. However, when looking at CDPs and other high-end solutions to boost their data capabilities, the company … Continue reading How Chime is activating data to communicate with customers
By Chris Stokel-Walker November 10, 2022 leadership now Elon Musk has made quite a first impression on his new employees. During his first few weeks as CEO of Twitter, he laid off some 3,700 workers. Since acquiring the company on October 27, Musk hadn’t formally spoken to the majority of staff who remain … Continue reading The email Elon Musk just sent to Twitter employees is a masterclass in how not to communicate
Mark Roberts April 12, 2021 Amid the pandemic, we’ve focused so much on how much we’ve evolved. In doing so, we’ve ignored something else the pandemic has brought to the forefront. We have forgotten to communicate. Or, maybe we never knew how to communicate, and, as is the case with so many problems, a crisis … Continue reading 3 Ways to Better Communicate With Your Team a Year Into the Pandemic
Jessica Thiefels July 5, 2020 Now that more of the United States is opening up, millions of Americans are returning to work. However, after the COVID-19 shutdowns, “back to the office” doesn’t necessarily mean “back to normal.” To help employees adjust to office life post-quarantine, you’ll need to be ready to communicate important changes and … Continue reading 5 Topics to Communicate to Employees Before Going Back to the Office
Gretchen Gordon — April 25, 2020 It’s something I cannot stress enough: The importance of communicating with your team now during this crisis. If you don’t have all the answers, don’t worry about it – just don’t hide. Vulnerability is okay. Absence is not. If you want to lead, be real and communicate. If you … Continue reading Leaders: Don’t Wait to Communicate!
Katy Stalcup — March 9, 2020 If you’re in engineering or development, communicating about cloud infrastructure and other software development costs with your finance department is tricky. For one thing, those costs are almost certainly rising. Also, you are in different roles with different priorities. This naturally creates barriers of communication. You may think your … Continue reading How to Communicate Software Development Costs to Your Finance Department
Sara Staffaroni — July 5, 2019 — July 5, 2019 Survey reporting isn’t a prescribed formula. You need a way to present your findings in a meaningful way that caters to the audience at hand. To do so, many marketers create a presentation and a report. A presentation can provide need-to-know insights in a quick, … Continue reading Survey Reporting: How to Communicate Your Survey Results
Dave Kosmayer — October 23, 2018 Follow @DavidKosmayer — October 23, 2018 We talk a lot about marketing products on social media, but the simple truth is, social media marketing is just half the battle. Communicating your brand… now that’s the hard part! Everyone makes the whole thing sound so easy, where you just need … Continue reading Effective Ways to Communicate Your Brand With Social Media
Shivam Trika — January 4, 2017 — January 4, 2017 There’s hardly any doubt about your employees being the building blocks of your business, they sure are the pillars your business thrives on. Most of the success or failure of your startup can be credited to the overall performance of all your employees. Entrepreneurs or … Continue reading 3 Tools Startups Must Use to Effectively Communicate with Staff
