Good at what you do, but struggling with your communication skills? Igotchu! 😎
Make MAGA nuts again…
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There is a special and intangible bond that great teams have. It often stems from a common purpose, common values and a common world view. If ever that bond breaks, all hell breaks loose. Mis-Communicator of the Week goes to MAGA World, which is losing its collective mind over the whole Jeffrey Epstein business. ​ Transparency is the one thing that MAGA World professes to stand for, and so any sense of a cover up sends them nuts. When you have a team or lead a community, it is critical to understand, nurture, and protect the values and principles you profess to share. Do that and the community will live, fight, and even die together. Break that and you may never put the community back together again. Kolarele p.s. we cover a lot of stuff on my programme, including of course leadership and team building. Reach out when ready. ​ |
Build your Communication SuperSkills
Good at what you do, but struggling with your communication skills? Igotchu! 😎
When your leadership and example matters, your mistakes can have greater consequences. Mis-Communicator of the Week Award goes to Reform UK (Kent County Council) for the debacle of their zoom council meeting, which was leaked to the papers this week. Reform have a credibility challenge. People are angry with the status quo and Reform have very effectively stepped into that gap with a message that panders to fears and promises change. But now they are in government in Kent County Council, they...
In his seminal work on the art of rhetoric, Aristotle identified that there were 3 cornerstones of persuasion: Logos (the use of logic), Pathos (the appeal to emotion), and Ethos (the credibility and character of the speaker). Communicator of the Week Award goes to US President Donald Trump for the considerable part he played to secure the tentative Gaza peace deal. You may (as many do) consider Donald Trump to be an unpredictable, unprincipled, uncouth autocrat, but where all the parties on...
Golf is hard at the best of times! But when you're playing in the biggest tournament in the world, against the best players in the world, with the pride of your country or continent on the line, golf requires Herculean levels of effort, focus and concentration. The job of fans is to support their own team and to give some stick to the opposition. But as with all communication, you have to match your tone to the moment. 'Go in the hole!' when one of your players has just hit - fine ✅ Shouting...