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Tips For Building Strong Emotional Connections In A Virtual World

Invincible Brand with Melissa Agnes

Release Date: 11/06/2018

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Invincible Brand with Melissa Agnes

Connection is at the heart of any good crisis communication strategy.   However, we’ve all seen leaders attempt to connect with their audience with all the right words, and yet something feels… off.  While a Crisis Ready Hindrance is often blocking that connection, understanding near and far emotional enemies is a powerful tool to help you overcome those Hindrances to resonate and connect in meaningful ways.   Within this podcast, which is the audio version of a recent Crisis Ready blog post, Melissa Agnes explores how near and far enemies give leaders and crisis...

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In order to achieve the mark of a true crisis leader, you must be able to effectively apply emotional awareness to your crisis communication strategy. This episode explores what that means and how to achieve it. This is the audio recording of a blog post, written and narrated by Melissa Agnes, and published to CrisisReadyInstitute.com.

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Invincible Brand with Melissa Agnes

Make no mistake: AI absolutely will affect crisis communication — and crisis in general, for that matter. Recently, my friend and the queen of PR herself, Gini Deitrich said something that got me thinking about predictive AI even further: Could AI predict the emotional escalation of a crisis… before it begins to happen? This episode explores this concept and what it could mean for the crisis communication industry. This is the audio recording of a blog post, written and narrated by Melissa Agnes, and published to CrisisReadyInstitute.com.

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How you make your customers feel is the powerful differentiator from your competitors, lends to the emotional connection you build with your stakeholders, and can ultimately make or break your brand’s invincibility.

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How to systemize the process of giving attention to the right things.

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Each month Melissa answers questions from real people doing real work in–or learning about–crisis readiness. This month’s question comes from Natalia who asked some core questions that pertain to crisis management and crisis readiness.

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Virtual communication can breed misunderstandings and yet how many of your meetings are virtual? Do you see where I'm going here?

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This month’s question comes from Bridget… and, in fact, Bridget had a handful of really great questions that Melissa got to provide responses to. Here’s a sampling of what these questions were:

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Dr. Nick Morgan, author of Can You Hear Me?(amongst other great books) and founder of Public Words, joins the Invincible Brand Podcast to discuss the impacts that the virtual world have on internal teams and the conscious efforts and actions that leaders can take to mitigate the risks that these impacts present on company morale, team-building, and ultimately the organization’s culture and reputation.

About this episode

Virtual communication deprives us of the emotional knowledge that helps us understand context. This presents risks to relationships with stakeholders–especially in regards to your internal teams and departments. In this episode, Nick Morgan explores new research that dives deeper into this reality, the challenges it presents to leaders and their teams, and provides strategic insight into how we can mitigate the risks that come along with this reality and build more connected teams and a stronger internal culture.

This episode explores:

  • New research and data that demonstrates the emotional impacts, voids, and effects that the virtual world presents.
  • The way in which leadership can use this information to form stronger connections with their teams during conference calls, virtual meetings, email communications, and more.
  • Helpful verbal and nonverbal cues to consciously deliver.
  • Tips for creating trust in a virtual context.

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