Bite-sized insights, for aspiring master communicators

When you’re passionate about communications, you notice related details. You observe how people write, speak, and behave. You mentally edit content and coach comm-challenged people. You think about how you would have done specific comms differently.

These thoughts don’t need 800-word pieces on “good comms, bad comms.” Here, they are bite-sized blogs - brief, but hearty enough entries to consider various aspects of well-executed and relevant communications. If at times you prefer to listen rather than read, click on the audio and tune in for bite-sized podcasts that last just as long as a song.

Get inspired by fresh perspectives and dos and don’ts in the field, and grab a comm bite.

Let’s get to the point.

Welcome to Comm Bites.

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Practice making a long story short

Writing good short prose is a learned skill. It is neither easy nor a quick lesson to absorb, so it pays to practice. Master how to write the concise messages you mean to convey before your target scrolls on.

Upgrade your email game

Do you know how to recognize well written emails? If yours include too much unnecessary information and do not get to the point quickly, you might fail to grab your reader’s attention. Train to write your emails with military precision by going BLUF.

The subtle communications of victory and defeat

Communicating successfully after a victory, or after a defeat, requires a dose of humility injected into your fortitude, and a message of respect and reassurance to those who follow you, buy from you, work with you. Do you know how to strike the right balance?

The art of reactive comms

For every communications team that gets it wrong for a public figure, there should be another one waiting to pounce on the occasion to give an ad rem reaction.

With Audio.