Just like the sending and receiving of Christmas cards, the distribution of pink slips or redundancy notices terminating employment within any company is a ritual that follows complex rules. Nevertheless, firing triggers powerful feelings of anxiety and exclusion, providing managers with some of their toughest communication challenges. The firing process can be outsourced and impersonalised, [ more » ]
Brazilian Executives Invest in the Art of Communicating
Valor Economico, Brazil’s top-selling financial daily, highlights Communicate Charisma in a profile of leading courses available to executives seeking higher leadership skills. Read the translation of Reporter Vinícius Cherobino’s Portuguese-language full-page article which appeared 05 September 2013: Valor Brazil – Executives invest in the Art of Communicating (PDF file) You can find the original at: http://www.valor.com.br/carreira/3259300/executivos-investem-na-arte-de-se-comunicar [ more » ]
A Brazilian billionaire with more chutzpah than true charisma
Keeping a car in your living room might sound like a weird aesthetic judgement — even if the vehicle is worth US$1.3 million and judged by many to be a work of art and the most desirable of all super-cars for the super-rich. But if you lived in Brazil, a country with one of the [ more » ]
Could the right colour help your brand to project Charisma ?
Ever wondered if there is a colour associated with success in business? Could use of colour really influence the fortunes of companies, and might it be true that companies of similar size, industry sector or even geography tend to use the same colours in their corporate identity and branding? The answer is yes, yes, and [ more » ]
Rhetoric: the ‘Once and Future MBA’ of the Power Persuaders.
We think of persuasion as a very modern attribute from the world of advertising, consumption, polling, shareholder communications, PR, marketing, lobbying, politics. Wrong: it’s a science that’s as old as the hills — or rather, dates back to Classical antinquity. Whenever and wherever people have exercised power, they’ve used persuasion. I want to delve back [ more » ]
Corporate Storytelling: the Wave or Particle Theory?
In school, teachers ask us to imagine that electricity is both a wave passing through material such as a copper wire, and the agitation of static copper particles within the wire. When it comes to understanding the function of storytelling inside organisations, the same teaching could be helpful. No story works without a narrative, or [ more » ]