In this episode, Chip and Gini talk about insurance. Right up there with legal and accounting when it comes to favorite topics for agency owners.
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Miles Everson, CEO of MBO Partners, joins Chip to talk about the challenges that agencies are facing in this new era of work — and how they can find success while mitigating risks.
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In this episode of the Agency Leadership Podcast, Chip and Gini discuss the importance of using your calendar to set, manage, and achieve your priorities.
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On this week's episode of The Spin Sucks Podcast, we discuss the important role of communicators bridging the communication gap between organizational leaders and employees in making return-to-work decisions.
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The Mad Men era of agencies is over. Or is it?
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Have you ever been frustrated with your team’s performance? If so, you’re not alone.
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On this week's episode of the Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich discusses Edelman's "The Future of the Corporate Communicator" report, outlines key takeaways, and shares how communicators can successfully utilize this information to plan for career growth heading into 2022.
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Annalisa Church recently led a massive overhaul of the Akamai website, which boasts with more than 1,200 pages in English covering 18 different products. The result has been a spike in customer engagement, with one million monthly visitors, almost two-thirds of whom become customers. Learn her secrets.
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You always hear that everyone in your business should be making the best, highest use of their time. But one of the biggest offenders of this objective are the agency owners themselves.
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As we strive to foster communities of collaboration and transparency between company executives and their employees, one question persists: How do we make our findings measurable and actionable? 

“I think communications in general is hard to measure. It's not as cut and dry as the sales of a product or the financials of a company… it's pretty hard across the board,” says our most recent guest, George Sutcliffe, Global Communications Insights & Analytics Lead at Raytheon Technologies. 

A former lawyer, librarian and writer, George uses his keen attention to detail to drive measurement strategy and uncover insights that impact business outcomes. In our conversation, George touches on a variety of subjects that all point back to one of Sharon and my favorite topics: How to marry quantitative and qualitative employee feedback, put it to use, and show your employees (and your executives) that their feedback is being put to use. 
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