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IABC India Board: Roles & Responsibilities

The IABC India Board comprises a number of positions. Here we have listed the duties and responsibilities of each of these Board members...

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lntercultural Communication in the Post-Pandemic World

Experts share their perspectives on the increasing importance of intercultural communication in the workplace in the post pandemic world in the recently published book The IABC Guide for Practical Business Communication: A Global Standard Primer.

How to Make DE&I@Work Work

Conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion have become part of corporate narratives today. There is ample research on why this matters and reasons for smart organizations to embrace diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) that is much beyond compliance, policies, and headcounts. In all these years of working in

6 Approaches To Mitigate Crises With Communications

Crises impact the lives of millions around the world – from black swan events like the COVID-19 pandemic to threats like data thefts and further on to company specific issues such as leader mismanagement that threaten to uproot long-held beliefs about the organization’s culture and values. Based on which stakeholders

Using NLP for Business Storytelling

Neuro Linguistic Programming is a useful framework of tools and methods that helps us understand how the mind works. According to the NLP communication model, the internal representation and processing of external events constructs my unique idea of reality that is distinct from your unique idea of reality. As each

Can Culture Change be Crowdsourced?

As an increasing number of corporations try to shift the focus from governing to unlocking their talent, questions are often asked about the best methods to effect a tangible change in organizational culture. Here are five basic principles everyone acknowledges: 1. Changing a culture takes time; maybe several years 2.

‘Headquarter Myopia’ and Why Diversity Sans Inclusion is a Top Derailer

Not long ago, Diversity went from being ‘the right thing to do’ to ‘a business imperative’. This happened mainly due to two reasons. Firstly, traditional catchment segments no longer offered employers any real flexibility and choice in matters of workforce planning. They had to open up to gender, educational and

Personal Lessons from Surviving COVID-19

Marcom professionals, who have been COVID+, or have been personally affected by it, share their experiences and advice that may be life-saving at this time of the century’s worst national health emergency... The devastating second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on a killing rampage across India. The