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TweetIf I had been thinking clearly, my first reaction when my CEO boss informed me in late November that I was I being placed on a “90-day furlough,” would have been ‘Everything happens for a reason’.  However, the surprise of immediately losing my income along with finding out I would receive no severance or access [...]

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TweetWhen I recently retired, Ron Culp asked me to “share my thoughts” with those who are just starting out. Of course, there is already a ton of great insight and advice in the postings on this site – on topics from better blogging to managing your boss. But I want to touch on something else:  [...]

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TweetI continue to believe that graduating from college with a liberal arts degree is one of the best ways to prepare for a career in public relations—my courses in history, political science, sociology, psychology, and even French have served me very well these past 25 years.  But during my senior year at Northwestern, after a [...]

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Tweet As a post here three weeks ago noted, there is a widening chasm between employees and management throughout business today.  That gap is made worse by executives who don’t communicate effectively.  So, I was intrigued to attend a luncheon this afternoon where Harry Kraemer, professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of [...]

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TweetBy Benjamin Easley I have learned that, as a public relations student at Ball State University, I had better listen to whoever is delivering the Schranz Distinguished Lecture in Public Relations. It doesn’t matter what the focus is or who is delivering it, the Schranz Lecture is worth my time and attention. Last Wednesday, Dr. [...]

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Tweet Q.  I am a junior journalism major now having second thoughts about my degree.  What are my prospects of landing a job?  Should I switch to PR or something else, even though it might require an extra semester at an expensive college?  -PA A.  Don’t panic—yet.  You didn’t mention a minor, so I would [...]

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Tweet  Effectively managing your career in the economy of 2011 is a vastly different world than it was just a few short years ago.  No longer does it suffice to have just a resume of qualifications and access to job boards and a few connections to executive search firms.  Managing a career in the public [...]

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TweetEarly in my career, my boss called me into his office and told me I was being given responsibility for employee communication.   “What did I do to deserve this punishment,” is what I thought at the time.  While I have long since changed my mind about the value of employee communication, perceptions about the step-child of PR have changed slowly [...]

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Tweet During a Skype conversation Friday afternoon with Professor Carolyn White Bartoo’s students at the University of Delaware, senior PR major Joe Mashek said he was planning his final semester class schedule and wanted to know the one elective course I’d recommend over all others.  Without a second of contemplation, I said he should take the most [...]

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Tweet   Friend and former colleague Paula Davis was just named a “Woman Worth Watching” by bi-monthly magazine Profiles in Diversity.  Paula is President of the nearly half-billion-dollar Alcoa Foundation. For the magazine and this blog, Paula shares the five “lessons learned” on her way up the corporate ladder of success: Fate has introduced me to [...]

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