Should I become an Independent Communication Consultant?
Should I become an Independent Communication Consultant? So I began this blog series on Navigating your Communication Career in February to help me create more discipline with blogging. It is now April and I am on my fourth part of this series in about two months, so a little slower folks but bear with me. Today we’re […]
Lisa Bélanger joins the Inner Strength Communication Inc. team in Montreal, Canada
Inner Strength Communication is growing! We recently expanded into Montreal with the addition of Lisa Bélanger as Senior Account Director, Internal and Change Communications. Lisa is an award-winning strategic communicator with 15+ years of experience leading corporate and change communication programs. She is a PROSCI Certified Change Manager with extensive expertise developing change communication programs […]
On the Inside: Working as an in-house Communication Professional
A few weeks ago, I talked about a series on Navigating your Communication Career. Today’s focus will be on being an in-house practitioner. It’s no surprise that the majority of communication professionals work in-house for organizations. Read the original article on the Navigating your Communication Career series I spent the first 20 years of my Communication career […]
NO RULES: Navigating your Communication Career
For those of you who follow me on LinkedIn, I’m back to blogging. I’ve been a little distracted with work and it has been a while. My personal word for 2018 is Discipline and one thing I need to be more disciplined about is blogging regularly. I was recently inspired by Rachel Miller’s series on being a consultant, […]
Introducing Inner Strength Sessions Session #1 Wednesday, October 18
Most internal communication, human resources and leadership programs focus on Ten Steps, Case Studies, How-To, and Technology solutions that talk about the same-old, same-old. I realized a few years ago that my approach to communication was different. I thought of it as the glue that connected disparate areas and integrated them to make ordinary organizations […]
Internal Communicators: When the greatest barrier to success may be you
Several years ago, I interviewed for a contract role for an organization looking to improve engagement. I had heard that the organization was in real need of a solution. I was interviewed by employees who would be peers. I talked to them about my results, my expertise in employee engagement, and what I had accomplished […]
Sharing Brenda Siler’s IABC ‘Herstory’ International Women’s Day 2017
When I accepted my Fellowship from IABC in New Orleans last year, I told a story of my first IABC conference in New Orleans in 1998. I was a young 30 year old, just starting my career in Communication. Introduced at the conference was Brenda Siler, the new Chair of IABC. As a woman and a […]
New Year! New Website! Bigger Team!
Inner Strength Communication Inc. started in 2014 with a dream. I hoped to create a Communication agency that would provide culture, engagement and internal communication solutions to help organizations successfully manage change and deliver results. The purpose was always to position internal communication and those that delivered it as integral enablers of organizational success. More […]
What is the communication professional’s role in branding? Free webinar now available.
What is the communication professional’s role in branding? Free webinar now available. Is your organization considering a rebranding effort? Struggling with an existing brand that doesn’t stick or is not being successfully adopted internally? Watch the webinar, hosted by me and IABC Southern Region. You’ll learn about the important stages of any successful branding efforts […]
The journey to tolerance involves acceptance not assimilation
It’s not surprising that after the recent U.S. Election results, my friends are talking about their fears for the future. Many Canadians are rethinking trips to the U.S. – some as their way of taking a stand against what they feel the results stood for…the acknowledgement and support of bigotry, sexism, misogyny, racism; others, because […]
So now what? It’s all a part of going through change.
So now what? It’s all a part of going through change. Many of us, especially those outside of the USA, are in a state of shock after the 2016 election results. We never thought that Donald Trump could realistically be the US President-Elect. Yet waking up this morning, we realize it wasn’t a dream (or […]
Communicator’s Toolbox #3 – Making Recognition Social
My relationship with Steven Green at TemboSocial began more than 10 years ago. At the beginning, he had a company called PollStream that provided polling solutions for websites. Its polling tool was used primarily by marketing and digital clients to create conversations with customers. When I first saw the tool, which provided a really user-friendly content management system and […]