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

• 8 Steps to Jumpstarting a Truth-telling Workplace Culture
  By Jim Haudan and Rich Behrens (@jhaudan via @greatleadership), Great Leadership
  
  Get 8 steps to a quick 45-minute activity that can give leaders insight into how comfortable their teams are talking about difficult issues and telling the truth.
  
  “What do a water cooler, bathroom, and hallway all have in common? These are three places in the workplace where people feel “safe” to tell the truth. Many leaders believe that their people feel safe in telling them what they think and feel. But this is a misconception—or a blind spot...”
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• Create an Internal Communications Campaign in 10 Simple Steps
  By Becki Hall (@BeckiHall via @IntranetExperts), Interact
  
  Get 10 steps to plan, design, and execute an internal communications campaign to capture the attention of your employees.
  
  “Capturing and retaining the attention of your employees is no easy task. If you have something important to get out, building a creative internal communications campaign can engage your staff and make the message stick...”
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• Measuring Culture in Leading Companies
  By Donald Sull, Charles Sull, and Andrew Chamberlain (@CultureXInsight, @CharlieCultureX, and @adchamberlain via @mitsmr and @Glassdoor), MITSloan Management Review and Glassdoor
  
  MITSloan teamed up with Glassdoor to quantify, compare and benchmark corporate cultures across organizations in a way that hasn't been done before.
  
  “To survive and thrive in today’s market, a healthy corporate culture is more important than ever. The MIT SMR/Glassdoor Culture 500 uses machine learning and human expertise to analyze culture using a data set of 1.2 million employee reviews on Glassdoor. This interactive tool offers previously untapped insights about the organizational culture of over 500 of the world’s leading companies and provides leaders with new tools for benchmarking culture in their own organizations...”
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• Becoming a Leader of Impact
  By Naphtali Hoff, Psy.D. (@impactfulcoach via @SmartBrief), SmartBrief
  
  Being impactful is being results-driven. Get the results you want with these effective strategies.
  
  “Integrity and influence are, without question, important components of leadership. But without results, leaders can hardly be deemed effective. Impact is all about results. And results start with clearly written, actionable goals that help leaders build alignment and amplify output....”
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Internal Communications Best Practice: 14 Examples of Campaigns that Crushed it
  By Kath McNiff (@KMcNiff via @grnorbit), GreenOrbit
  
  These 14 internal communication campaigns might offer you some inspiration for your own.
  
  “You have a job to do. Get your message across and make it stick. Sounds simple enough, right? But of course, it isn't. Crafting a compelling internal communications campaign is tricky, it requires:...”
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• Poor Internal Communication Can Be a Costly Mistake for Businesses
  By Sara Jensen via Workforce Focus (@workforcenews)
  
  Find out what the cost of not improving communication with your employees is and how to avoid 3 internal communication problems most companies face.
  
  “Poor internal communication can have some seriously negative impacts on a company — poor morale, high employee turnover and lower employee productivity, to name a few. Worse yet, these can lead to a lasting effect on a company’s bottom line...”
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