FINESSE Insights: How to Make Your Next Conference More Meaningful
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CWF
Apr 53 min read
Eight Great Insights on Reliability, Maintenance, and Asset Management
Ask some of the best people you know. Give them the freedom of topic and format. Provide a few guardrails. See what bubbles up. The end...
Anteneh Zewde
Nov 29, 20233 min read
My Experience in Removing Language Barriers
Working in a country that does not speak your native language can be challenging, especially when trying to communicate technical...
JD Solomon
Oct 23, 20233 min read
How Does a Readability Formula Help My Business Writing?
How much should you pay attention to readability scores generated from tools like the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Formula? As a technical...
JD Solomon
Oct 20, 20232 min read
What’s in a Heading? Five Writing Tips to Make Your Text More Accessible
Headings are vital in improving accessibility for vision-impaired individuals by providing structure, navigation, and context. Headings...
Tom Moriarty
Sep 13, 20234 min read
How to Get Senior Leaders to Do Their Jobs (and keep accountability where it belongs)
One of the questions I get when people learn that I’ve written a book on leadership is “How can I get senior leaders to do their job?”...
Lester Ray Moore
Jul 15, 20232 min read
FINESSE: Are Words the Most Powerful Drug Used by Mankind?
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" is attributed to Rudyard Kipling, although there is some debate over who...
JD Solomon
Jun 9, 20232 min read
Five Unique Attributes of the Fresh Book, Facilitating with FINESSE
Facilitating with FINESSE: A Guide to Successful Business Solutions is a practitioner's guide for ten common applications that...
Lester Ray Moore
May 23, 20232 min read
Seven Helpful Observations on the FINESSE Fishbone Diagram
FINESSE is a cause-and-effect approach for effective communication when there are lots of complexity and uncertainty. FINESSE stands for...
JD Solomon
May 8, 20232 min read
What Young Professionals Can Do To Build a Facilitation Team and Empower Their Careers
Young professionals bring the knowledge and insights needed for any organization to succeed. By 2025, half of the global workforce will...
Lester Ray Moore
Apr 28, 20231 min read
Effective Communication Accounts for 85% of Your Success
Brian Tracy believes that communication is critical for achieving business success. Even more, he believes that effective communication...
JD Solomon
Apr 18, 20233 min read
Make Business Communication "To" Senior Management for Better Results
How we provide business communication to senior management is different from how we communicate with our peers. Our language reflects the...
JD Solomon
Feb 21, 20233 min read
Why It Doesn't Matter If Color Blindness is a Deficiency or an Impairment
Color blindness should be addressed in your communication and facilitation approach, whether you believe it to be a deficiency, an...
JD Solomon
Jan 10, 20232 min read
How To Improve Communication and Facilitation with the FINESSE Mental Model
After a guest lecture at a major US university, I recently had a follow-up conversation with a graduate student. The discussion centered...
JD Solomon
Jan 4, 20233 min read
How Communicating with FINESSE Empowers Effective Communication
On January 4, 2023, I got to provide the kick-off guest lecture for a graduate class at Auburn University. The course is part of a...
CWF
Oct 7, 20221 min read
Communicate with FINESSE by Speaking to Everyone in the Same Way
Many frequently cited quotes are attributed to Albert Einstien, including, "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."...
JD Solomon
Sep 18, 20222 min read
Five Reasons Being An Effective Communicator Helps Your Technical Career
We are all called upon weekly (or daily) to explain or defend our work. As technical professionals, video conferences, interfacing with...
JD Solomon
Sep 6, 20224 min read
Communicating Inflation and Escalation Will Make or Break Your Career
Current project managers and decision makers have not grown up in an era of rising construction escalation and economic inflation. The...
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