Archive for the ‘Communications’ Category

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Do most consultants stink?

by Jeff Rosenberg

I do a good bit of media training. For one federal contract, I have visited and spent a better part of the day with community-based organizations. I help them develop a communications strategy and then conduct media training. If I had a nickel for each time I heard, at the end of the day, “We were dreading this, but this was fun, just terrific” (or something like that), I’d have a lot of nickels. I like to think I’m pretty good. But I’m wondering if it’s more that most consultants just plain stink.

Perhaps it’s because when I visit, I listen. I never show up with a projector and PowerPoint. I don’t pass around handouts. I don’t stand up and give a lecture. That would be easy. I do something much harder. I lead a discussion. I listen. For a consultant, that’s risky. It means I never know where the conversation will go. It means I am never sure that I will have something to offer the group I am working with, never sure I will have the answers. It means I’m nervous starting every session.

But I guess it means I don’t stink.

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Cool stuff, weird stuff

by Jeff Rosenberg
Friday, June 26th, 2009

Mixed bad analogy quote of the week

by Jeff Rosenberg
Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Swine flu death toll: media credibility

by Jeff Rosenberg
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Little, but stupid, distraction from expensive messaging

by Jeff Rosenberg
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

JFK was not a jelly doughnut

by Jeff Rosenberg
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Shut up, you know

by Jeff Rosenberg
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Shut up, it’s good for me

by Jeff Rosenberg
Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Philosophy-less pitching, and other Blogen-servations

by Jeff Rosenberg
Sunday, September 28th, 2008

A radical definition of communication

by Jeff Rosenberg