Michael Toebe's Communications Solutions: Recent Episodes
Michael Toebe
Communications Solutions Leadership for your business, work and personal life. Focus on reputation repairs and crisis, learning from other people's mistakes. Follow on Instagram at reputation_and_crisis, LinkedIn and Twitter (CrisisAndRep).
In this episode I talk about how responding to your reputation crisis with anger and a lack of humility might feel like the proper response yet it another common mistake that adds length and misery to your crisis.
This is the first episode of a series: What Mistakes Add Length to Your Reputation Crisis. Today I talk about crisis avoidance.
Analysis paralysis of continuing down high risk paths are both dangerous and costly. Yet what can prove helpful is to remember apply this strategy and plan of action.
Lance Armstrong has no feel for the court of public opinion or understanding of the hurtful impact he inflicted on others. Here's why that's important and costly, and what we can learn from him.
Don't we do that? Water the "weeds"in our lives, in different contexts? Doing so always comes with costs, now and later. It's a hard habit to break. Yet what if we could by asking ourself better questions?
A social media CEO who engages with stakeholders with poise, sincerity, sensitivity, honesty and when necessary, urgency, is going to best represent the company and stakeholders.
Video is a powerful medium to relationship build, communicate information, develop a healthy reputation and respond to and navigate crisis, whether you are a corporate executive or small business owner. Here's why...
If you are in a business or personal crisis, your reputation being questioned or damaged, or both, don't make these two poor decisions. They will make matters worse and cost you more.
Enabling still occurs in corporate America yet maybe change is coming, where that failing is not as lengthy. This short podcast examines some findings, discusses some quotes and ends with some questions.
Why do people with power advantages struggle to apologize? Art Markman, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin says two barriers create problems.
Here are two ideas, two strategies if you will for being more confident, poised, influential anf beneficial wherever you are and also create more attractive outcomes.
Lying can be intoxicating to those who choose to do it, occasionally or compulsively. They don't consider the reputation risk. They don't believe they will suffer. They don't think about this one very possible punishment.
Why do we choose short-term protection and other benefits and accept long-term elevated risk to relationships, financial success and more? We can learn from other people's mistakes and be better for it.