This week, Cathy and Ian discuss communication, inspired by some evergreen advice on email best practices that spills into a chat about general management training, personality types, and how employees are expected to figure it all out on their own. 

• Communication tools best uses
• The need for communication skills training
• Evolving communication practices
• Working on the communication culture in your organization
• Understanding personality types
• Management skills and how to reward individual contributors

As always, we welcome your feedback. If you have a suggestion for a topic that is hot for you, please get in touch using the links below.

Enjoy!

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The Links

The people:

• Ian Truscott on LinkedIn and Bluesky
• Cathy McKnight on LinkedIn

Mentioned this week

• “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” – Mark Twain
• The post about communication skills from Anjali Yakkundi with Cathy’s comment
• Myers-Brigges Type Indicator – https://eu.themyersbriggs.com/en/tools/MBTI
• Seventh Bear

Rockstar CMO:

• The Beat Newsletter that we send every Monday
• Rockstar CMO on the web, Twitter, and LinkedIn
• Previous episodes and all the show notes: Rockstar CMO FM.

Track List:

• We’ll be right back by Stienski & Mass Media on YouTube

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