Suite life

What does it take to be a trusted advisor in the C-suite? Here are a few takeaways from an excellent panel discussion last week at the National Summit for Strategic Communications.

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What bosses expect: essential skills for success

Following the last post re: CCO views on emerging skills and professional development in corporate communications, here’s a related post focusing on young professionals in the field. This appeared today on Culpwrit, the go-to resource for young professionals in public relations.

Adapt or die

New technologies are transforming how, where and when people work – so how are some leaders adapting their approach to developing the people on their teams? We recently interviewed a dozen Chief Communications Officers (CCOs) at leading B2B and B2C companies and here’s what they had to say.

What drives commitment?

New research suggests that employee commitment is driven more by the quality of development opportunities and leadership at an organization than the quality of one’s immediate manager or compensation. Here’s an interesting post that details the study.

War for talent

Approaches to talent development in the communications profession must evolve and intensify. Here’s how I argued that point in a PR Week article a little more than a year ago. This remains an important issue, based on upper 90 research now underway. More on those findings in early 2014…

Start at the end

A great philosopher, Yogi Berra, once observed: “You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going ‘cause you might not get there.” What I think he was trying to say was…