Participation, meeting features, and human connections are the keys to turning boring, wasted time in virtual spaces into productive, successful experiences. Use the tips below to make professional impressions as a virtual meeting facilitator or attendee. Proactive Participation Distribute agendas and materials for pre-meeting reading (we recommend one-two days prior—not a week!) This approach saves […]
Our CEO, Mike Mannon, was quoted in this useful article from Business News Daily on employee self-assessment. http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/5379-writing-self-assessment.html
Can you believe we’ll soon be heading into year-end reviews and 2017 goal-setting? Many of you will be supporting employees and leaders who struggle with both performance assessment and development discussions. As we hear in this brief video, WD Communications helps your talent think about, talk about, and write about performance in a clear, practical […]
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/articles/encouraging-work-life-balance-during-a-growth-period/?linknav=us-openforum-search-article-link1
Recently, we had the pleasure of working with two large Sureties during the same week. It was a fascinating experience; to be able to interact and survey two very distinct corporate cultures solidified some of our thinking about a new generation of Surety Bond Professionals. Over the last five years, the volume of data and […]
Something strange happens when I know I am going to be presenting to an international audience in a foreign country. Although I have been doing this for many years and it is not unusual to have more than ten nationalities represented in my seminars, I always begin to have a feeling that I must label as […]
As a child, Sarah Gerwig-Moore thought she would grow up to become an English professor. Those plans changed: One look at the job market for someone with a Ph.D. in English led her to law school. In an internship as a law student, she found a way to marry her love of writing with her […]
Louis Carter is the founder and CEO of the Best Practice Institute. He recently discussed the importance of best practices and other topics with WD Communications. WD: Everywhere we go, we hear clients talking about best practices. Is there a universal understanding of what this term means? LC: In the universal sense and definition, “best […]
Are you the lucky one who gets to write the minutes? Or, are you perhaps the baffled reader who wonders, “Are these the right minutes for the meeting I attended last week?” With meetings taking more and more of our work time, concise, accurate records of important discussions, decisions, and action items are valuable work […]
Long before the human race developed written forms of communication—certainly centuries before books, newspapers, e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook—storytelling was the primary way to deliver messages, preserve history, and entertain an audience. Few human behaviors are as universal as storytelling. No matter what cultural group, no matter what historical period, no matter what country of residence, […]