Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past week. Typically, as you might have noticed, I tend to cover broad topics. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19, I'm going to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate this new normal with their teams. 

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

• These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
  By Bill George (@Bill_George via @HarvardHBS and @HBSWK), Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
  
  A list of authentic leaders who are unselfishly making a difference in overcoming the challenges of COVID-19.
  
  “Now is a time for leaders, particularly authentic leaders, to step up to the challenges and inspire their organizations to help the world work its way through these difficult times...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past week. Typically, as you might have noticed, I tend to cover broad topics. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19, I'm going to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate this new normal with their teams. 

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

• 3 Important Lessons On Crisis Management From the COVID-19 Pandemic
  By Tanveer Naseer (@TanveerNaseer)
  
  3 important lessons for leaders everywhere on not just how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic, but how they can better address any crisis through their leadership.
  
  “The fundamental key to addressing a crisis is for leaders to not only be honest about the situation and what you’re going to do about it, but that you do so with clarity, humility and heart so as to remind people we’re in this together...”
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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:

• How Leaders Can Keep Remote Employees Engaged And Productive During Tumultuous Times
  By Roberta Matuson (@matuson via @Forbes), Forbes
  
  Get 7 ways to keep your remote employees engaged and productive during these uncertain times.
  
  “It's the year 2020, and there are still leaders who've never managed a remote workforce—until now. As the coronavirus spreads, the number of companies asking employees to work from home is multiplying fast...”
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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:

• The 2020 Internal Communications Landscape
  By Carla Lynn via IC Thrive (@IntranetTips)
  
  Key takeaways from the State of the Sector 2020 report, a global definitive survey of the internal communication landscape.
  
  “The annual State of the Sector report compiled by Gatehouse and released in January 2020, looks at over 1000 responses from organizations based in 45 countries and across 33 industries, asking pointed questions about internal communication...”
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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:

• 10 Strategies Successful People Use to Make Decisions
  By Dr. Travis Bradberry (@talentsmarteq via @wef), World Economic Forum
  
  Get 10 helpful lessons from successful people for effective decision-making including how to avoid decision 'fatigue'.
  
  “Your days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. A study from Columbia University found that we’re bogged down by a good 70 decisions a day. Some decisions are minor, like what to eat, which route to drive to work, or in what order to tackle tasks. Others are more difficult, like deciding between two job offers, whether to move to a new city for someone you love, or whether to cut a toxic person out of your life...”
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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:

• Four Storytelling Techniques to Bring Your Data to Life
  By Nancy Duarte (@nancyduarte via @mitsmr), MIT Sloan Management Review
  
  Get 4 storytelling techniques that leaders can leverage to help their team and employees understand the problem that the data reveals and the opportunities it presents.
  
  “If it’s your role to communicate data insights and persuade people to change their behavior, you’ll have more influence and promote better decision-making if you emphasize the people behind the numbers. In a story, we root for the hero as he or she maneuvers through roadblocks. To use data to steer your organization in the right direction, you need to tap into the human tale your data can tell...”
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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:

• 12 Methods To Identify And Fix Communication Problems Within A Team
  By Expert Panel, Forbes Agency Council (@Forbes_Agency via @Forbes), Forbes
  
  Get 12 methods leaders and managers can implement to make for better team communication.
  
  “The best teams operate like well-oiled machines. However, for these teams to perform their functions properly, they need to communicate effectively. A lack of clear communication can lead to missed deadlines, frustrated clientele and cost overruns...”
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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:

• 7 Steps to Getting Leaders’ Buy-In on a Comms Audit
  By Katrina Gill via Ragan Communications (@RaganComms)
  
  If you’re like many communicators, you’d like to do a communication audit – here are the steps to persuade senior leaders to pull the trigger.
  
  “The big bosses who dole out money for projects need more than your say-so. Come armed with hard data and a solid business case, enlist a strategic ally, and be judicious about your timing...”
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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:

• Does Your Team Know What You Want? Clarify Your Intent with These 4 Steps
  By Randy Conley (@RandyConley), Leading with Trust
  
  Find out what 'leadership intent' is, its 4 characteristics and how it can help you empower your employees.
  
  “The turning of the calendar page from one year to the next is an opportunity to start the new year with a clear and focused plan for your team or organization. Yet, if you’re like many leaders, you not only find it hard to establish a clear strategy for the year, you find it difficult to keep all your team members aligned and moving forward to achieve the goals...”
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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:

• 6 Ways to Enhance Innovation Through Internal Communication
  By Alejandro Formanchuk (@formanchuk via @InstituteForPR), Institute for Public Relations
  
  Here are six concrete actions that internal communicators can propose to enhance innovation.
  
  “Most organizations want to enhance innovation; to achieve this goal they invest resources in new methodologies, technologies, training, physical spaces, and furniture. This is great… However, they often forget that they also need to invest in internal communication. This oversight can be very expensive because it is very difficult—if not impossible—to develop innovative ideas and practices within an organization without a good internal communication strategy...”
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