If you are a manager in your organization, there’s most likely a reason for that – people trust you, think you do quality work, and respect you as a leader. But if you’re not an effective communicator, you’ll lose that reverence and you won’t retain employees. A study in 2001 (...)

I’m working with a sharp group of Communication majors from the University of New Hampshire right now. Honestly, their enthusiasm each week for the assignments I’ve given them as part of the unpaid internship they’re participating in has been fantastic. So, imagine my surprise at a recent team meeting where (...)

Most of us end up hating our entry-level jobs. But I sometimes wonder, is it really the job that we hate or something else? It was only a year ago when I first stepped into the corporate world. Like any optimistic twentysomething, I walked into my first day and (...)

Ever since the dawn of the soul-wrenching cubicle, we working peons have had little recourse against the corporate monolith that runs our everyday life. So in an act of rebellion, I recently plotted the most nefarious act I could think of, leaving at 4:55. I know what you’re thinking. “This (...)

Life before electronic communication is a foggy memory for the oldest millennials. For the youngest members of Generation Y it's basically an incomprehensible reality. E-mail has been a routine part of communication for most millennials. But despite its familiarity, e-mail blunders are all too common. There are a number of (...)