Best Practices

Stress Less in Speaking

Fear At times, fear paralyzes. It strangles the mind and body disabling it to think clearly and respond accordingly. When it comes to public speaking, this fear has a name—glossophobia. The Greek word glossa means tongue and phobos means fear ...
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Community

Student Involvement & Leadership: My Story

My family and friends would describe me as a “joiner”. I have been involved with 7 campus organizations and held 6 executive board positions during my 4 years at Illinois State University. I currently serve as the president of the ...
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Favorite Resources for Communicators

I am always curious what others are accessing to grow their marketing knowledge or learn new communications skills. So, I jumped at the chance to attend a recent Coffee and Conversations sponsored by the Greater Des Moines, Iowa Chapter of ...
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Create a Harassment-Free Work Environment

Women communicators hear, see, and push a lot of content. We have varying agendas and goals and are all trying to do our best work every day. Often, that quality work product is sacrificed for the sake of time, external ...
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Women

Don’t Forget About #PayEquityToo

The last year has been one of the most important for women with the #metoo movement to address long-standing sexual harassment in the workplace. Now the equally important workplace issue of gender pay equity also needs to move forward to ...
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