EE Voice

Welcome to our first podcast for 2017. In this episode, we welcome back Tamara Snyder, leader of Edelman’s Chicago Employee Engagement team, to chat with us about mergers and acquisitions (M&A), an area that has seen increased activity over the last year. She also shares a few findings from the recent Edelman Trust Barometer, which was just issued in January.

Sharon and I had a wonderful discussion with Tamara, where we address topics such as:

If you’re involved in an M&A or your company could see one in its future, this is a podcast filled with practical tips just for you. Take a listen, and as always, we welcome your feedback and ideas.

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Welcome to our special holiday episode, where Sharon and I offer five fast tips to improve your CEO’s end-of-year letter for 2016. We reference a blog I wrote on this topic a couple of years ago, but many of the same recommendations still apply. We discuss:

We recommend keeping CEO communications brief, so we’re doing the same with this short, 15-minute podcast.  Take a listen.

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Welcome to episode 12, where we discuss how to engage your millennial workforce. Sharon and I interview Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky, a millennial workplace expert, internationally renowned keynote speaker, and bestselling author of The Quarter-Life Breakthrough: Invent Your Own Path, Find Meaningful Work, and Build a Life That Matters.

Smiley has spoken about finding meaningful work at Fortune 500 companies, international conferences and leadership development programs, universities and graduate schools. His writing has been published in The Washington Post, Fast Company, Time, Forbes, and GOOD, and his work has been featured in Mashable, VICE, CNBC, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and the World Economic Forum. He previously worked as the special assistant to the director of global operations at the U.S. Peace Corps.

In this episode, Sharon and I talk to Smiley about:

And much, much more.

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Welcome to episode 11, where we are delighted to interview Stephanie Bickel from Speak by Design, a team of executive coaches and trainers who are committed to helping clients elevate their impact and increase their influence through better communication skills. Stephanie and her colleagues provide presentation training, speech training, voice training, leadership communication training as well as specialized communication training for women to enhance their strengths and influencing skills.

We thought Stephanie would provide great perspective on how internal communicators can strengthen their personal communication and influence skills, especially as we are increasingly expected to lead change within our organizations. In this episode, we discuss:

And much more.

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Whether you love them or hate them, for most internal communicators, employee town halls are an expected part of the job. In this month’s podcast, we share our town hall war stories (the good and the bad) and what energizes us most as we prepare for these leader-employee dialogues. We suggest practical tips that will assist in preparing and planning for your town hall, executing day of, and following up to ensure lessons are learned.  We cap off our conversation with ideas on how to enliven your town hall and ensure employees are heard and acknowledged.

Have any town hall war stories or wins you’d like to share? We’d love to hear from you — please share with us.

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