FINESSE Insights: How to Make Your Next Conference More Meaningful
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CWF
- Apr 5
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 4 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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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