In the past month, I’ve encountered blog postings and articles and seen/heard about presentations on the following topics:
- Email etiquette (wouldn’t information fatigue syndrome be a more interesting expansion of this?)
- Nonverbal communication (it would be interesting if someone actually publicised the fact the the whole 70%/30% statistic is a misinterpretation of the original study everyone quotes with such enthusiasm)
- Why PowerPoint is so evil (how about not bashing the software and sharing some great presentation examples?)
- Non-core business philanthropy masquerading as CSR
- The business value of employee engagement
- Cross-cultural communication tips featuring such gems as the Chevrolet Nova’s failure in Mexico
Interesting … like, 5 years ago. Flogged to death … like, 3 years ago. The Nova example is STILL USED and is celebrating its 40th birthdday in a junkyard near you.
Surely we as professional communicators have some newer insights to share than THIS?
Filed under: internal communication, organisational communication
I’m anxious to read an updated version of post #2 as well — the correct framing of the Mehrabian study. Here is one decent overview:
http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2004/07/15/an-urban-legend-face-to-face-communication-is-the-best-vehicle-for-communication
Brandon
Absolutely great – hope you don’t mind if I post that as a new blog. Rock on!
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