By William B. Horne, President and CEO of Truist In recent years, the concept of employee engagement has become an increasingly bigger part of managing a workforce. Business leaders have acknowledged that...
Ancient Practices For Cultivating Contemporary Creativity
By Maren & Jamie Showkeir The insistent, rapid, and asynchronous drumbeat of change in today’s modern marketplace has made an organization’s ability for continuous creativity the key to survival....
Working From Home? Make Sure You Do It Right.
By Sanjay Patel, CEO, Personify More than 13 percent of Americans work from home (WFH) today – a 44 percent increase since 1999 – according to the Census Bureau. Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer recently put...
Telecommuting Still Primed for Growth
By Sean O’Brien, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Communications for PGi In the 1980s, the term “work-life balance” entered our modern business vocabulary. Cell phones and personal...
Dark Clouds Over Sunnyvale
By Steve Cody, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Peppercomm Not since the days of Marie Antoinette, have we seen a ‘queen’ quite as out-of-touch with her ‘subjects’ as Marissa...
International Women’s Day – Reaching Up and Reaching Back
By Sharon Hadary and Laura Henderson The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human...
Global is the New Local
Editor’s Note: Steve Rigell recently also wrote “The Sequester’s Silver Lining” and “We Have No One To Blame But Ourselves” for CommPRO.biz By Steve Rigell,...
Yahoo!’s Decision to Get People Face-to-Face Will Increase Collaboration
By Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D. Marissa Mayer’s decision to stop Yahoo!’s telecommuting has already been criticized by many. But not by me. Here’s why I think it will increase innovation and...
Your Employees & Their Online Presence: How Will It Affect Your Brand in 2013?
By Melissa Agnes, Social Media Crisis Manager, Speaker and Consultant (This article was originally published on MelissaAgnes.com ) 2012 saw a decline in trust for CEOs, while the trust in front-line...
Creating Innovative Teams
By Chris Grivas, co-author, “THE INNOVATIVE TEAM: Unleashing Creative Potential For Breakthrough Results” Pop Quiz: Who invented the iPhone™? The microwave oven? The Space...
Internal Communications: 5 Ways to Sell Social Media Engagement in Your Company
By Kathy Van Duzer Can you directly measure in dollar amounts the value of social media? The simple answer has been no. What you can measure is engagement. On Twitter, for example, you have followers...
Death by PowerPoint? All Presentations Would Benefit from Higher Communication Standa...
By Eric Bergman, BPA, ABC, APR, MC, Author, “Five Steps to Conquer ‘Death by PowerPoint‘” According to some estimates, between thirty and forty million PowerPoint presentations are...












