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:

• 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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• What No One Tells You About Leading But You Desperately Need to Know
  By Karin Hurt and David Dye (@LetsGrowLeaders and @davidmdye), Let's Grow Leaders
  
  Here are 6 leadership realities you might wish you had learned sooner.
  
  “'I wish someone would have told me some of this before I started leading. Life would have been so much easier. I bet my team wishes I knew it too.'...”
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• 5 Fun Strategies Companies Are Using to Make Remote Workers Feel Included
  By Samantha McLaren via LinkedIn Talent Blog (@HireOnLinkedIn)
  
  Here's how 5 companies made remote employees feel part of a close-knit team, no matter how far apart they may be.
  
  “A 2017 study found that remote employees are more likely to feel left out or isolated than their onsite peers. And when employees work remotely most or all of the time, they can find it hard to mesh with the company culture, which will hold back collaboration and hurt engagement and morale...”
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• To Be a Trustworthy Leader You Need This
  By Terri Klass (@TerriKlass)
  
  Get 4 advantages to leading through transparency and why it's a critical piece in being a trustworthy leader.
  
  “The voices around the conference table grew louder and louder. Here we were with fiduciary responsibilities and yet were not given the necessary facts so that we could pitch in and help. This was not going well and the current leader was losing all of our trust. He was missing a critical piece in being a trustworthy leader–…”
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• This is Why Successful Leaders Always Wake Up So Early
  By Lolly Daskal (@LollyDaskal)
  
  Most of us don't get up until we have to, but here are 8 good reasons to inspire yourself to get up earlier.
  
  “Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” He must have known what he was saying, because some of the most successful people and honorable people in history—people like Mahatma Gandhi and Thomas Edison and Nelson Mandela—were early risers...”
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What were some of the top leadership and communication articles you read this week?

—David Grossman

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