Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• 14 Ways To 'Grade' Your Communications Plan Before It Launches
  By Forbes Communications Council (@ForbesCommCncl via @Forbes), Forbes
  
  A panel of Forbes Communications Council members provide their best strategies for "grading" your communications plan before its launch.
  
  “Delivering major news in any organization can be a complicated process. Whether it’s internally or to the public, you want to communicate the information as clearly and responsibly as possible, leaving no room for misinterpretation or confusion...”
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Attention leaders: Please stop what I call the “slide shuffle.” You have another presentation and you begin preparing by pulling slides together from various presentations you’ve given. If they worked before, they can work again, you think.

What’s often the result? Too many slides, slides that are too dense, a story that’s not cohesive, and little thought about what you want your audience to do, and where to purposefully interact with the audience.

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 

• Augmented Humanity Will Disrupt Leadership. Are You Prepared?
  By Vibhas Ratanjee (@vibhasr via @Gallup), Gallup
  
  Find out which leadership competencies and how workplace culture are critical in the augmented future of work.
  
  “According to Gallup research, more than three in four Americans (76%) "agree" or "strongly agree" that artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally change the way people will work and live over the next decade. No need to wait -- augmented humanity (AH) is the next gen application of AI, and it's already here...”
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A proven formula for organizational success involves employee engagement, which we define as the emotional connection people have with work, which leads to discretionary effort – extra time, energy, brainpower, a willingness to take on a stretch assignment, and more. In other words, engaged employees are highly motivated to help an organization achieve its goals. And multiple research studies show that companies with engaged employees have better financial results. 

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 

• 5 Steps to Ensure Communication Shores Up and Supports New Strategies
  By Malin Teles via Ragan Communications (@RaganComms)
  
  Find out how to use internal communication to successfully implement new or updated strategies with these 5 steps.
  
  “One of the greatest misconceptions of strategy implementation is thinking that it’s done by executives...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 

• 10 Questions Leaders Must Answer When Making Big Decisions
  By Greg Bustin (@GregBustin via @greatleadership), Great Leadership
  
  Clarity around your desired outcomes when making decisions allows you and your team to focus on the big picture. Before making your next big decision, ask and answer these 10 questions.
  
  “Some of your decisions are bigger than others, and so to be considered successful on your terms as well as the terms of others means you must make more good decisions than bad decisions when the stakes are highest...”
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How do you decide what information is mission-critical for employees? Many employees want to know everything that’s going on. But that’s impossible to accomplish and is also an unrealistic expectation. 

Follow these 2 times it’s important to share information with your employees: