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A monthly conversation among Fellows of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)

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Circle of Fellows episodes:

03.23.2024
Circle of Fellows #102: Research, Plan, and Manage Your Communication Career
Maintain a flexible approach to professional growth by joining IABC Fellows as they explore key topics essential for communication professionals at any career stage. Delve into important areas like the IABC Global Standard, Career Self-Assessment, and the IABC Proficiency Matrix....
02.16.2024
Circle of Fellows #101: More IABC Fellows Share Their Best Insights and Advice
In the 100th episode of “Circle of Fellows,” Brad Whitworth and Shel Holtz presented short video and narrative contributions from many Fellows of the International Association of Business Communicators, each of whom will present their best advice, most meaningful insight,...
01.19.2024
Circle of Fellows #100: Insights and Advice from IABC Fellows
It's hard to believe, but this is the 100th "Circle of Fellows." To celebrate, we opted to try something new. (Don't worry, we'll return to our panel discussion format in March.) We asked our Fellows to contribute their best insights...
12.24.2023
Circle of Fellows #99: A Look Back at 2023 in Communications
The past year has been — to put it mildly — consequential. If nothing else, the rise of Generative Artificial Intelligence has dramatically altered the communication landscape. But AI isn’t the only issue that faced communicators in 2023. From remote...
11.17.2023
Circle of Fellows #98: The Gift of Communication
With the holiday season upon us, it is appropriate to talk about a gift communicators can give: the gift of communication. For several years, the day before the IABC World Conference begins, communicators spend a day with local nonprofits from...
10.20.2023
Circle of Fellows #97: Global Diversity Awareness as a Communication Imperative
In an increasingly interconnected world, the role of effective communication has never been more critical to organizational success. This month’s panel of IABC Fellows will delve into the nuances of Global Diversity Awareness. For organizational communicators, understanding and embracing the diverse tapestry...
09.30.2023
Circle of Fellows #96: Leadership in Communication
This month's panel of IABC Fellows explored the intersection of leadership and communication and how those at the top can leverage their communication skills to drive business success. The panelists shared their insights on communicating vision, values, and purpose; creating...
08.18.2023
Circle of Fellows #95: From Meh to Marvelous
The goal of communication in any organization is for the recipient to think, feel, or do something. Most often, the outcome we seek is a behavior: We want the recipient to do more of what they’re already doing, do something...
07.21.2023
Circle of Fellows #94: Staying Ahead of the AI Curve
In this modern era where AI is changing the dynamics of every industry, questions inevitably arise about its efficacy and implications. Will AI replace communicators? Is it ethical to use AI with or without disclosure? Besides writing, how can communicators...
05.19.2023
Circle of Fellows #92: Communicating Wellness in the Workplace
Wellness has risen from an afterthought in companies to a prominent issue. Businesses increasingly recognize the impact of physical and mental health in the workplace. An opportunity loss of $20 million for every 10,000 workers can be attributed to low...
04.20.2023
Circle of Fellows #91: Crisis Communication
There has been no shortage of crises in the business world in recent months. From the failure of FTX and Silicon Valley Bank to the Norfolk Southern train derailment and fans revolting against Ticketmaster, there is more than enough fodder...
03.17.2023
Circle of Fellows #90: Communicating Change
Everybody hates change, right? You hear that all the time; it’s why organizational change is so hard. The fact is, people love change. They willingly and enthusiastically make changes all the time. They change their fashions, their hair styles, their cars, their...
02.17.2023
Circle of Fellows #89: At the Crossroads of Counsel and Ethics
As communication professionals grow in their careers, they’re expected to provide strategic counsel to company executives about communication and its impact on business. This week’s hot topic might be new legal regulations; next week, it could be stakeholder relations. No...
01.23.2023
Circle of Fellows #88: The Global Communication Certification
According to the Global Communication Certification Council, “Professional certifications through GCCC® give you the opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and expertise and provide evidence of your outstanding abilities. Becoming certified engages you in the process of life-long learning that elevates your...
12.19.2022
Circle of Fellows #87: Year-End Reflections
Four IABC Fellows looked back on 2022, which was a consequential year for communicators, in this final Circle of Fellows of the year. The evolution of COVID-19 from pandemic to endemic led companies to bring employees back to the office,...
11.18.2022
Circle of Fellows #86: Brands and Branding
Is your trademark your company’s brand? Your logo? Or is your brand what your customers say about you when you’re not in the room? What’s a brand promise and how do you develop one that everyone can buy into? How...
10.21.2022
Circle of Fellows #85: So You Want To Be A Consultant
You have gained experience as a communicator in an organization. Now, you want to establish a consulting practice. You have questions. Do you focus on a niche or will you be a generalist? Will you remain independent or hire staff?...
08.18.2022
Circle of Fellows #84: What Communication Is…And Isn’t (Part 2)
In July, four IABC Fellows gathered to discuss what communication is…and isn’t. That conversation will continue at noon EDT on Thursday, August 18. Too often, communicators are called upon to engage in activities some might consider communication. It may even qualify...
07.22.2022
Circle of Fellows #83: What Communication Is…And Isn’t (Part One)
Ask leaders what “communication” is and you are likely to hear a wide range of answers, especially when it comes to the role of a company communication function. Some of those answers may be accurate, others not so much. Too...
06.18.2022
Circle of Fellows #82: Meet the 2022 Class of IABC Fellows
In this special episode of “Circle of Fellows,” meet the three IABC leaders who have been named Fellows for 2022 (and who will be formally inducted during the IABC World Conference in New York later this month). This conversation with...
05.22.2022
Circle of Fellows #81: Research and Measurement
With today’s online discussions, forums, and social media platforms, communication professionals easily delve into what key stakeholders know-feel-do about something now. This enables comms pros to develop more efficient and effective plans to transform what stakeholders’ know-feel-do to achieve organizational...
04.21.2022
Circle of Fellows #80: Executive Communication
As part of the IABC Career Roadmap, the business leader path is essential to our profession and its role within society. The business leader plays a critical role in shaping an organization's future by adopting the Global Standard for the...
03.18.2022
Circle of Fellows #79: Engaging Stakeholders Through Strategic Communication
“Strategic” communication is differentiated from other communication by one simple concept: It is “the communication principles, strategies, and initiatives used to further an organization’s goals,” according to one communication-focused website. (It’s not a bad definition, though it fails to mention...
02.17.2022
Circle of Fellows #78: Communication for the New Business Focus on ESG
The pandemic has made us look more closely at human and corporate values and the capacity that good values, morality, and ethics can provide to overcome any crisis. ESG has firmly entered the vocabulary of investors, managers, and other stakeholders...
01.21.2022
Circle of Fellows #77: Adding Value Through Communication
How leaders view the communication function depends entirely on whether communication produces results that matter to them. Delivering that value doesn’t just happen. In the first Circle of Fellows broadcast of 2022, four IABC Fellows explored the various dimensions of...
12.21.2021
Circle of Fellows #76: How Healthy Is your Organization's Culture?
As the new year begins, before you set your resolutions in stone, ask yourself, “How healthy is the culture of the organization where I work or the clients I serve?” And, with what you learn, consider new resolutions to make a...
11.21.2021
Circle of Fellows #75: Your Future in Focus
As the world struggles with what’s next for the workplace in the wake of the global pandemic, take time to consider your career path as a communication professional. Neil Griffiths, Amanda Hamilton-Attwell, Mary Hills, and Brad Whitworth contributed their thoughts...
10.23.2021
Circle of Fellows #74: Communication Ethics
Trust in media and business is not high, according to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, and public relations practitioners are usually stereotyped as unethical hacks attempting to clean up the image of a person or organization that has done something...
09.21.2021
Circle of Fellows #73: Communicating in a Changing Workforce
There are dramatic changes afoot among employee populations. The biggest of these are pandemic-related, including hybrid workforces and employees required to adjust to new at-work realities, including continued social distancing and other measures designed to blunt the spread of viruses....
08.22.2021
Circle of Fellows #72: Time Will Tell
During the recent IABC World Conference, Brad Whitworth and Mark Schumann led a highly rated interactive session that examined how we use time to positively impact worlds we hope to change, lives we want to touch, and differences we need...
07.20.2021
Circle of Fellows #71: Crisis Communication and Leadership
Crisis communication begins long before an organization experiences a crisis. Planning to communicate in a crisis involves considerable preparation, running the gamut from ensuring contact lists are up to date to establishing an organizational culture that is prepared to swing...
06.21.2021
Circle of Fellows #70: Achieving Personal and Professional Success
What does it take to ensure success, both personally and professionally, as an organizational communicator? On June 17, five IABC Fellows gathered for a live-streamed discussion that explored some surprising elements of success.Continue Reading → The post Circle of Fellows #70:...
05.24.2021
Circle of Fellows #69: Partnering with HR
Internal communicators have been partnering with Human Resources for years. In larger companies, HR even has communicators of its own to handle messaging about people-related matters. Changes in the workplace have led to substantial changes in HR’s role, many of...
04.18.2021
Circle of Fellows #63: Communications and ROI
Return on Investment (ROI) is a term that is tossed around loosely in some circles. Strictly speaking, ROI is expressed as a percentage determined by dividing the return (or benefit) of a monetary investment by the cost of the investment....
03.19.2021
Circle of Fellows #67: Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility has never been hotter. With younger workers insisting on working for purposeful organizations, a surge of interest in investment funds that focus on sustainable companies, and organizations embracing comprehensive ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) initiatives, communicators have their...
02.21.2021
Circle of Fellows #66: What Does It Take to Be a Successful Independent Consultant?
What does it take to be successful as an independent communication consultant? How do you transition from your current corporate role, with all the support and resources that come with it, to working on your own? How do you drum...
01.24.2021
Circle of Fellows #65: A Look Back at Communication in 2020
By any standard, 2020 was a challenging year for everyone around the globe. Communicators were among those who had to cope with the personal impact of the year’s events while simultaneously coordinating communication to their organizations’ or clients’ diverse audiences...
12.18.2020
Circle of Fellows #64: Communications and the Corporate Environment
The corporate environment comprises the various aspects of work that affect employees' productivity, including when, where, and how they work. According to Indeed.com, "A work environment is the setting, social features, and physical conditions in which you perform your job....
11.23.2020
Circle of Fellows #63: The Hottest New Communication Technologies
For a while, the wave of new technologies offered communicators obvious opportunities to incorporate these new tools into their communication strategies. The introduction of Twitter and Instagram, the rise of mobile use, chatbots, and other technologies that were grounded in...
10.18.2020
Circle of Fellows #62: Communicating Workplace Safety
Four IABC Fellows discuss how to effectively communicate workplace safety.Continue Reading → The post Circle of Fellows #62: Communicating Workplace Safety appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.
09.20.2020
Circle of Fellows #61: Communicating Open-Book Management
In his book, “The Great Game of Business,” Jack Stack introduced the business world to open-book management. The Great Game of Business website points out, “Open-book management at its most effective far outperforms a definition as simple as “sharing financial...
08.24.2020
Circle of Fellows #60: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Episode 43 of Circle of Fellows — back in March 2019 — addressed the communicator’s role in supporting their companies’ diversity and inclusion (D&I;) efforts. The topic has undergone a dramatic transformation since then and, notably, since the killing of...
07.17.2020
Circle of Fellows #59: How to Be a Successful Consultant
What does it take to launch a communications consulting practice? What should communicators who have never been entrepreneurs know about going solo? Should they bring aboard partners? Staff? Most importantly, how do they become trusted advisers, delivering value, and helping...
06.19.2020
Circle of Fellows #58: The Integration of Internal and External Communication
Internal communication engages your employees and helps ensure they focus their efforts on activities that produce business results. External communication engages your stakeholders and customers, builds your reputation, and sets expectations. When both are clicking, employees are connected to the...
05.23.2020
Circle of Fellows #57: Managing the Integrated Communication System
You cannot discuss internal communications these days without someone asking about the blurring of the line between internal and external. When done well, there has never been a clear boundary between internal and external, since they are designed to achieve...
04.17.2020
Circle of Fellows #56: Change and High-Performance Leadership
Organizations with high-performance leadership are better equipped to develop, maintain, and retain individuals, teams, business units, and the whole organization’s culture. These organizations are also in a better position to manage change. The characteristics of high-performing leadership range from leaders’...
03.21.2020
Circle of Fellows #55: Bosses -- True Stories of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Bosses: True Stories of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a candid and provocative new book in which communication and leadership expert Roger D’Aprix (also an IABC Fellow) asserts that many leaders are ignoring the proper selection, training, development,...
03.21.2020
Circle of Fellows #55: Bosses -- True Stories of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Bosses: True Stories of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a candid and provocative new book in which communication and leadership expert Roger D’Aprix (also an IABC Fellow) asserts that many leaders are ignoring the proper selection, training, development,...
02.21.2020
Circle of Fellows #54: The Business Impact of Communication
Communications — internal and external — are cost centers. Other cost centers, like Human Resources, have transformed themselves from bureaucratic necessary expenses to vital business partners whose work directly affects business performance. Communications can (and does) have a direct effect...
02.21.2020
Circle of Fellows #54: The Business Impact of Communication
Communications — internal and external — are cost centers. Other cost centers, like Human Resources, have transformed themselves from bureaucratic necessary expenses to vital business partners whose work directly affects business performance. Communications can (and does) have a direct effect...

What's Circle of Fellows about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Circle of Fellows episodes:

Circle of Fellows #102: Research, Plan, and Manage Your Communication Career

Circle of Fellows #101: More IABC Fellows Share Their Best Insights and Advice

Circle of Fellows #100: Insights and Advice from IABC Fellows

Circle of Fellows #99: A Look Back at 2023 in Communications

Circle of Fellows #98: The Gift of Communication

Circle of Fellows #97: Global Diversity Awareness as a Communication Imperative

Circle of Fellows #96: Leadership in Communication

Circle of Fellows #95: From Meh to Marvelous

Circle of Fellows #94: Staying Ahead of the AI Curve

Circle of Fellows #92: Communicating Wellness in the Workplace

Circle of Fellows #91: Crisis Communication

Circle of Fellows #90: Communicating Change

Circle of Fellows #89: At the Crossroads of Counsel and Ethics

Circle of Fellows #88: The Global Communication Certification

Circle of Fellows #87: Year-End Reflections

Circle of Fellows #86: Brands and Branding

Circle of Fellows #85: So You Want To Be A Consultant

Circle of Fellows #84: What Communication Is…And Isn’t (Part 2)

Circle of Fellows #83: What Communication Is…And Isn’t (Part One)

Circle of Fellows #82: Meet the 2022 Class of IABC Fellows

Circle of Fellows #81: Research and Measurement

Circle of Fellows #80: Executive Communication

Circle of Fellows #79: Engaging Stakeholders Through Strategic Communication

Circle of Fellows #78: Communication for the New Business Focus on ESG

Circle of Fellows #77: Adding Value Through Communication

Circle of Fellows #76: How Healthy Is your Organization's Culture?

Circle of Fellows #75: Your Future in Focus

Circle of Fellows #74: Communication Ethics

Circle of Fellows #73: Communicating in a Changing Workforce

Circle of Fellows #72: Time Will Tell

Circle of Fellows #71: Crisis Communication and Leadership

Circle of Fellows #70: Achieving Personal and Professional Success

Circle of Fellows #69: Partnering with HR

Circle of Fellows #63: Communications and ROI

Circle of Fellows #67: Corporate Social Responsibility

Circle of Fellows #66: What Does It Take to Be a Successful Independent Consultant?

Circle of Fellows #65: A Look Back at Communication in 2020

Circle of Fellows #64: Communications and the Corporate Environment

Circle of Fellows #63: The Hottest New Communication Technologies

Circle of Fellows #62: Communicating Workplace Safety

Circle of Fellows #61: Communicating Open-Book Management

Circle of Fellows #60: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Circle of Fellows #59: How to Be a Successful Consultant

Circle of Fellows #58: The Integration of Internal and External Communication

Circle of Fellows #57: Managing the Integrated Communication System

Circle of Fellows #56: Change and High-Performance Leadership

Circle of Fellows #55: Bosses -- True Stories of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Circle of Fellows #55: Bosses -- True Stories of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Circle of Fellows #54: The Business Impact of Communication

Circle of Fellows #54: The Business Impact of Communication