Win Leadership Support and Improve Performance: The Communicator's Reinvention Toolkit

Roger D'Aprix

ISBN 10: 188801539X ISBN 13: 9781888015393

Publisher: International Association of Business Communicators, 2005

Synopsis

Get yourself and your leadership on the same communication page with this invaluable communication tool. Communication master Roger D'Aprix, ABC shares his techniques and concepts for training organizational leaders at all levels to effectively communicate the unprecedented issues shaping the workplace.

Today, an engaged and invested workforce is your organization’s primary capital asset. To cultivate such engagement, communicators must fill both a strategic and a tactical role, which often means reinventing their current roles. This toolkit shows how to make the case for that reinvention and how to win investment from your workers. But it's more than a training kit. It's a complete package communicators can use to launch complex line manager and senior management communication initiatives.

Includes:
An organizational assessment process
A Power Point presentation that helps explain to leadership the value and necessity of effective organizational communication
A training and development module
A questionnaire designed to evaluate the communication behavior of leaders
A Leader’s Guide
A six-step Strategic Planning Guide
A CD-ROM that includes all of the reproducible materials needed to duplicate the preceding tools

About this title

About the Author

Roger D'Aprix is an internationally known communication consultant, lecturer and author who has assisted dozens of Fortune 500 companies in developing their communication strategies and restructuring their communication training and staffing. His long list of clients includes such organizations as Sears, Comcast, Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, General Motors, Saturn Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, EDS, GE Capital Services and scores of others. He is generally regarded as one of the leading-edge thinkers in the formulation of communication strategy and practice for contemporary organizations. In 1978, the International Association of Business Communicators honored him as one of the youngest IABC Fellows ever named. For 15 years he has held senior positions with two of the leading human resources consulting companies. Presently, he is managing director of his own consultancy in Rochester, New York. He has written six books on employee communication, the latest of! which is his best-selling "Communication for Change: Connecting the Workplace with the Marketplace."

Edition details

• Publisher: International Association of Business Communicators
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 188801539X
• ISBN 13: 9781888015393
• Binding: Ring-bound
• Number of pages: 229