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Discover Your Leadership Style
There are many styles of leadership and just as many gurus and books touting which style is the best. What is a leader? Whether you are taking charge of a small group project, heading up a new team, or running an entire department, you are navigating a leadership role. There are many ways…
Read MoreHere’s What Jazz Music Teaches Us About Leadership
Leaders who communicate with a situational understanding, learn to embrace chaos empower their others to lead can make beautiful music. Justin Joffe, Editor-in-chief, Ragan.com Colleagues occasionally refer to a harmoniously executed collaboration as “making beautiful music together,” but rarely does the metaphor extend to leadership. That’s why speaker, bassist and leadership coach Michael Gold,…
Read MoreCommunications and Marketing Agency FrazierHeiby Rebrands as Slide Nine New Leadership, Rapid Expansion Gives Way to Next Chapter for the Business
CommPRO Editorial Staff Two and a half years and one global pandemic after an ownership transition, Columbus, Ohio-based communications and marketing agency, FrazierHeiby, has a new brand. As of today, the firm will be known as Slide Nine Agency, a name reflective of the company’s culture and inspired by direct client feedback. Industry News …
Read MoreSilvia Davi Joins the Symbiont Executive Leadership Team
CommPRO Editorial Staff Symbiont, Inc. a technology pioneer solving complex global finance problems using enterprise blockchain solutions, recently announced that it expanded its executive leadership team with the appointment of two strategic management positions at the end of Q42021. Silvia Davi was named Symbiont’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer and Tom DeJarnette was named Chief People…
Read MoreLeadership Presence: How Do You Feel About This?
Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D. If you asked Bella, the miniature Australian Shepard in this photo, she’d tell you what a great time she’s having rolling in the mud! But if all you had to go on was your personal reaction to this image, you might have come to a different conclusion. Bill Toppeta, a…
Read MoreHow ‘Sleep Leadership’ Can Improve Employee Satisfaction, Productivity
Gone are the days of bragging about how much work you can do on three hours of sleep a night. Emma Atkinson, Ragan Communications No one likes getting a poor night’s sleep. Tossing and turning, lying awake for hours on end or waking up feeling sore and unrested can make for an unproductive day.…
Read MoreCourage in Leadership (PODCAST)
Editor’s Note: Courage is under fire in Ukraine. Margareta Kull, founder of Kull Leadership in Sweden and author of the new book, The Courageous Leader, dissects the internal thought process of the most courageous leaders and how Ukraine’s President Zelensky exhibits it, and inspires his followers – the Ukrainian People – to also show amazing…
Read MoreWhat the Pandemic Teaches About Crisis Management and Leadership
Helio Fred Garcia This week marks the start of the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. By the end of 2021 more than a half million Americans were catching COVID-19 every day. One in every six Americans had come down with the virus; one in every four hundred had died. Much…
Read MoreFive Leadership Lessons from 2021
Alex Teixeira, Owner, Mooney Mountain Guides, LLC I’m a guide whose purpose is to enhance the lives of people by introducing them to the wonders of rock and ice climbing, mountaineering and back country skiing in the Northeast and Pacific Northwest. Some readers may think, “Look at this guy. I wish I was paid to…
Read MoreTrust, Leadership, and the Power of Stories
Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D. TRUST. Every leader needs it. Trust is the foundation for successful collaboration. It is the glue that bonds team members and builds organizational commitment and engagement. But there is a problem. We learn what is important to leaders by the behaviors we see modeled by those leaders, and too often…
Read MoreProjecting Leadership Presence in a Teleconference
Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D. In a famous 2002 experiment, a Stanford University professor made audiotapes of physicians and their patients in session. Half of the doctors had been previously brought to court for malpractice. She then played the tapes for her students, who were able to determine which physicians had been sued. But…
Read MoreLeadership Is More About What You Relinquish Than What You Hold Tight
Bessie Kokalis Pescio, Vice President, Global Internal Communications at Philip Morris International There’s a lot of talk right now about the caliber of leadership required to guide employees through the debris left by a global pandemic. With the workplace in a chapter of rapid change, and many employees still working remotely while others return to the…
Read MoreWomen Leaders on the Rise Leadership Program Addresses Research Showing Women Get Stuck at Bottom of Career Ladder
Leslie Grossman Men outnumber women nearly 2 to 1 in reaching the first rung of the corporate ladder according to research in the fifth annual Women in the Workplace study by McKinsey & Co and Lean In. The study also states that women are not held back by either lack of ambition, or a desire…
Read MoreEdelman Announces Major Leadership Changes: Promotes Russell Dubner & Lisa Osborne Ross
CommPRO Editorial Staff Edelman has named Russell Dubner global vice chairman and chair of the Edelman Trust Institute and Lisa Osborne Ross CEO of Edelman’s U.S. operation. In a new role for the firm, Dubner will lead three key planks of the firm’s global agenda: corporate development, encompassing M&A and venture investments, alliances and partnerships,…
Read MoreFrom Internship to Leadership, or the Road from an Intern to Managing Director in 10 years
Roxana Diba is the New Managing Director of Golin Romania CommPRO Editorial Staff Starting May 2021, Roxana Diba will be the new Managing Director of Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) agency Golin, one of the main PR agencies in Romania. The management team is completed by Cristina Butunoi, who will become the agency’s Deputy Managing Director.…
Read MoreDiversity Action Alliance Announces New Leadership Team for 2021
CommPRO Editorial Staff The Diversity Action Alliance (DAA), a cross-industry coalition dedicated to increasing recruitment, retention, and representation in management for people of color and other under-represented groups in the communications field, announced today the addition of three newly elected leaders for its board of directors. The DAA board, comprising communications industry leaders and DE&I experts, will…
Read MoreFive Ways to Nurture Positive Leadership, Offer Hope and Help Others
Dr. Susan Kuczmarski, Ed.D., Leadership Expert and Co-Author, “Lifting People Up: The Power of Recognition” Inclusiveness is a key leadership skill. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was exceptional at being inclusive. All leaders can learn from Dr. King’s use of positive leadership and expressions of hope. Leaders who nurture inclusiveness among employees often…
Read MoreHPL Leadership 2021 Outlook: Looming Challenges, New Opportunities and Cautious Optimism
Hot Paper Lantern While this year has presented many unique challenges for communications professionals, it has also brought new opportunities. We asked our leadership team what they predict the next year will look like. Here’s what they had to say: “2021 will continue to affect how we work, collaborate and spend time together as Americans.…
Read MoreDo You Have a Leadership Presence?
Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D Leadership presence is a blending of attitudes, qualities, and behaviors that send all the right signals and makes you stand out from your peers. But leadership presence isn’t automatically assigned to you because you have a leadership title, advanced technical skills, or a high-level of leadership potential — and it’s not…
Read MoreKen Jacobs Shares Nine Critical Leadership Traits for Today
Due to COVID19 it’s been more challenging than ever to lead: Our teams, our peers, our stakeholders, our leaders, and yes, ourselves. And it appears that these uncertain times will be here for a while longer. As a result, the aforementioned groups are exhausted. You might be too. But these times that can try people’s…
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