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Leading with authentic executive presence

How do we define executive presence? It used to be equated with assertiveness, unshakeable confidence and appearing to have all the answers. A new leadership paradigm is defining executive presence as the ability to create connections that inspire. In this poster session, we’ll discuss what we mean by authentic leadership and look at ways to explore […]

Partners in time: how a two-person communications team manages to do it all

We know that as university communicators, we are always being asked to do more with less. After the past two years, that maxim has never been truer. As the communications team for the IT Services division at Miami University, we wear a lot of hats: marketer, communicator, transcriber, translator, campaign planning consultant, photographer, designer. How […]

Common sense leadership for un-leader-y leaders in an uncommon world

We are the doers. The makers. The creators. The problem solvers. The conjurers of awesome. Our work gets results and gets noticed. And then, the inevitable happens: Because we do awesome work, we get promoted to be the managers and the leaders of other doers and makers. But rarely do we receive management or leadership […]