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

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• 7 DIY Video Ideas for Internal Communication
  By Carla Kath and Andy Pollard via Staffbase (@APinKC and @StaffbaseHQ)
  
  View these videos to learn some effective storytelling techniques that you can use to make your own amazing in-house videos.
  
  “As communication professionals, we all know that the power of an awesome video is unmatched at telling stories for internal or external purposes. That said, video production isn’t cheap, making video expenditures a frequent victim on the budget chopping block. But don’t despair! You can in fact save your company thousands of dollars by learning to produce videos in-house...”
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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 Introverts Can Command Attention on Any Professional Stage
  By Jane Finkle (@janefinkle via @ThinDifference), Thin Difference
  
  Find out how introverts can command attention with these 3 golden rules for speaking up.
  
  “You may not be a glib small-talker who enjoys publicizing yourself on a billboard for all to see. You may also struggle at the idea of promoting your admirable achievements and personal qualities. In today’s work world initiative is rewarded, speaking out is cheered, and taking action is applauded. For an introvert, this reality can leave you walking in an extravert’s shadow...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 

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• How the World’s Best Workplaces Create a Great Global Culture
  By Ed Frauenheim (@edfrauenheim via @FortuneMagazine), Fortune
  
  In the largest-ever study of workplace culture, research and analytics firm Great Place to Work surveyed 3.4 million employees across 90 countries. Find out what they discovered.
  
  “Political and economic upheaval in Latin America. Pressures to work 70-hour work weeks in Asia. Concerns about rights and responsibilities in Europe. Frequent corporate restructurings in the United States and Canada. An ever-faster pace of business affecting virtually every industry in every corner of the globe...”
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• 5 Characteristics of Weak Leaders (And How Not to Be One)
  By Michael Hyatt (@MichaelHyatt)
  
  Michael lists 5 leadership flaws (that double as a self-evaluation tools) he noted in Gen. George B. McClellan as he read Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, an account of Abraham Lincoln's presidency and political genius.
  
  “Sometimes you learn from positive role models. Often you learn from negative ones. This is one of the reasons I love to read history—you invariably see both...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 

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• 10 Magic Phrases That Will Make You a Better Leader
  By Dan McCarthy (@greatleadership), Great Leadership
  
  Engage, motivate and inspire your team and employees by adding these 10 phrases to your vocabulary.
  
  “Want to be a better leader? Then try improving your vocabulary. No, I'm not talking adding the latest management and leadership buzzwords or jargon to your repertoire. I'm talking about adding some powerful phrases to your vocabulary that will engage, motivate and inspire others...”
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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:

• 5 Common Missteps in Crisis Communication
  By Kristin Miller via PR Daily (@PRDaily)
  
  Heed these warnings so you’re not caught off guard if a data breach occurs, or any other calamity.
  
  “Unfortunately, it’s not a matter of if, but when a cyber incident or a data breach will hit your company. According to Gemalto, in 2018 there were 945 companies that experienced a data breach, which is almost three per day. That means last year, 945 PR teams probably woke up on a random morning to a terrible crisis for which they were ill-prepared...”
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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:

• What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
  By Michael Blanding (@michaelblanding via @HarvardHBS), Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
  
  Researchers, Tarun Khanna and Prithwiraj Choudhury, use machine-learning technology to look for links between a CEO's communications style and company performance.
  
  “CEOs are communicators. Studies show that CEOs spend 85 percent of their time in communication-related activities, including speeches, meetings, and phone calls with people both inside and outside the firm. Now, new research using machine learning is attempting a deep dive into the words and facial expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. ...”
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• 5 Priceless Leadership Communication Lessons Learned the Hard Way
  By Art Petty (@artpetty via @SmartBrief), SmartBrief
  
  Five lessons the author learned – sometimes the hard way – over two decades of leading and guiding others.
  
  “An early career mentor of mine -- a senior leader -- regularly reminded me, 'Art, you'll go as far as you can communicate.' I took him seriously, and I worked hard to emulate his energetic, confident stage style, and thoughtful one-on-one demeanor. And while 'presence' is important, I learned over time that succeeding as a communicator was much more about substance than smile and style...”
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• America’s CEOs Seek a New Purpose for the Corporation
  By Alan Murray (@alansmurray via @FortuneMagazine), Fortune
  
  Find out why this group of CEOs redefined their mission and get the full revised statement of corporate purpose published by the Business Roundtable.
  
  “On Aug. 19, the [Business Roundtable] BRT announced a new purpose for the corporation and tossed the old one into the dustbin. The new statement is 300 words long, and shareholders aren’t mentioned until word 250....”
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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:

• 8 Steps to Building an Effective Internal Communication Strategy
  By Peter Banerjea via Smarp (@BeSmarp)
  
  A carefully planned strategy is necessary for your internal communications function to succeed. Get started with this helpful guide.
  
  “Even though internal communication has a direct impact on employee experience and employee engagement, most businesses don’t have a long-term IC strategy. We share in this blog post a step-by-step guide to help you craft a great internal communication strategy...”
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