It Happened in Stockholm
Seventeen executives from and near Stockholm were invited to participate in a strategic meeting to reshape healthcare in Sweden. As the so-called wise man fro...
Author: lwalkerkmi
Facilitating a Dysfunctional Group
Sally, Executive VP, invited me to help her transform her team from being dysfunctional to a team that delivered all its potential. I told her I would giv...
Zero ACEs: The Value of Extended Family
To write this second Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) blog, I reviewed the first blog and realized it was my typical technical approach to problem sol...
First Rule of Communication
My work with a network television station in Minnesota was telling and lasting. There were 16-17 executives who participated in a multi-day retreat using the b...
Stories
Platinum Communications is revealed by stories presented in support of each component, stories that “tell it like it is” or “tell it like we want it to be.” The...
Tutorial: Level 1 Component 1: Know Your Audience
Level 1: Know Your Audience Audience may be one person or one thousand. Audiences expect respect, and a respectful relationship leads to authentic communi...
Journey Home
Victim… Hostage… There’s harm. Suffering. A lessening or deficit. Grief, a grievance. Duration and latency. Maybe a victim outlook, or mentality, or...
Tutorial 3: The Ten (10) Components of Platinum Communications
Multiple methods for improving communication exist. Successful individuals and organizations work to master many of these tools and techniques. The complexity ...
Passionate About ACEs — Adverse Childhood Experiences
I first heard about ACEs while listening to a noon hour MPR radio program. Happened to be doing dishes, and the program caught my attention, a welcome div...
Urban – Rural Divide(d)
For two hundred years the impact of the Industrial Revolution has taken its toll on our rural communities. As the agricultural industry has automated, few...