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Create Your Communications Experience

by Bert Decker, CEO of Decker Communications, Inc.


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Leadership Communications - the Fundamental State

June 25, 2009

A leader grows into the "Fundamental State", according to Robert Quinn, and this is a concept we can apply to President Obama – and any new leader. In Obama's case, we could compare his
effectiveness as a campaigner (Normal State) and his
effectiveness as a leader now that he is President (Fundamental State). But maybe it's too soon in his leadership, but not too soon in his communications.

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Open Communication - Now and Forever?

June 18, 2009

 (UPDATE: See this clip from CNN 6/20/09, 4 days after I wrote the following post. They now call it "the Internet Revolution.")
The Iran protests and Twitter's hand in dramatically showing that an oppressive regime can no longer censor dissent may have changed communications forever.

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The Green Light Approach

June 13, 2009

The Green Light Approach

Most successful people have a 'forward lean.'

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The Visual Dominates - Mehrabian Revisited

June 6, 2009

There's been a lot of unfortunate controversy among communication professionals about Professor Albert Mehrabian's oft quoted research (below). It's good to have discussion though, for his research has altered the communicating landscape and has helped to get people out of the 'curse of knowledge.' Here are my thoughts and personal experience on the issue:

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But PowerPoints are NOT Your Presentation

May 19, 2009

With all the recent emphasis on the design of your PowerPoints (Keynote for the Mac), it's time to revisit the fact that your visuals are NOT your presentation. You and your Point of View are the centerpiece.

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How to Start Communicating on Twitter

May 6, 2009

Exploding - the word for Twitter, and Social Media for that matter.

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Lie To Me - is a lie!

April 30, 2009

The Fox TV show that is surprisingly popular is based on a lie. Ironically, it is called "Lie To Me."The primary reason I'm compelled to write this is because the producers use the credibility of communications giant Paul Ekman to promote an untruth - that you can tell whether people are lying. You can't!

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It's All About Them: How to take "you" out of the message

April 25, 2009

@kellydecker back here this week, inspired to write another post.
 
“It’s not you…it’s me.”

 
Relationship wise, maybe you’ve been the receiver of that message, or in George Constanza’s case, you invented it. One of my favorite Seinfeld moments below:

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Interview on Speaking, Obama and Twitter

April 9, 2009


Good friend and communicator Chris Spagnuolo has a great blog called Edgehopper (that's his frog above) - and he was nice enough to interview me. In case you missed it:Ten Questions with Bert Decker

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