This week, Cathy and Ian discuss communication, inspired by some evergreen advice on email best practices that spills into a chat about general management training, personality types, and how employees are expected to figure it all out on their own.
Communication tools best uses
The need for communication skills training
Evolving communication practices
Working on the communication culture in your organization
Understanding personality types
Management skills and how to reward individual contributors
As always, we welcome your feedback. If you have a suggestion for a topic that is hot for you, please get in touch using the links below.
Enjoy!
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The Links
The people:
Ian Truscott on LinkedIn and Bluesky
Cathy McKnight on LinkedIn
Mentioned this week
“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” - Mark Twain
The post about communication skills from Anjali Yakkundi with Cathy’s comment
Myers-Brigges Type Indicator - https://eu.themyersbriggs.com/en/tools/MBTI
Seventh Bear
Rockstar CMO:
The Beat Newsletter that we send every Monday
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Previous episodes and all the show notes: Rockstar CMO FM.
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