Comma Articles

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Resilience and You

Last week Comma invited Jean Burke to talk about the need to build resilience during these unsettling, COVID and post-COVID times.  The target audience? Those interims currently not working but wanting to feel in a good place for their next role.  Jean...

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Comma’s top tips for Virtual Interviews

How to get your best self across in a virtual interview. Interviews are already stressful enough but, for many, the prevalence of the virtual interview is exacerbating those stress levels even further. One interim recently told me she dreads any video conferencing and...

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Comma support I CAN in 2.6 Challenge

Please join the Comma team to raise much needed funds for I CAN. I CAN is a communication charity aimed at children (I in 10) with speech, language and communications needs and whose educational outcomes, employability and health and wellbeing are all impacted by...

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Comma Response Team is Live

Over 50 short-term, remote, quick responder, communications delivery specialists available to assist during and beyond Covid-19 pandemic. Comprising over 50 high calibre freelancers, our responders will provide remote internal/change/crisis comms delivery and/or...

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Storytelling

Visual or written, we have tips on how to create a great story. No matter the medium, catching the attention and striking a cord in the audience's psyche is what makes for a great story. Here are just some things you might like to think about. Using anecdotes Good...

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Somewhere to Sit & Work

Comma's quick guide to finding somewhere to stay for a few hours in London. Finding somewhere to sit and work between meetings can be a bit of a pain. You need wifi, you need the loo and you need somewhere to charge your phone.  Grazia posted a great guide to the...

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Managing Difficult Stakeholders

Tried & tested tactics from our own Comma network. For this article we are going to dive into the ‘real’ world, the messy world, the uncomfortable world, the world that sometimes makes us want to scream ‘not everything is about you, it's about what’s...

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Comma Coaches Go Live

Comma Partners now offer executive coaches to support the delivery of change. Comma Partners is already known for placing high quality interims who advise and implement change communications and change management for industries as diverse as mining, pharma, financial...

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IC’s role in driving employee engagement

Alison Boothby answers 'What is IC’s role in driving staff engagement?'  I was lucky enough to attend a networking evening recently. The theme was ‘How to Lead, Motivate and Engage: Tools, Tips and Techniques to Maximise Emotional Commitment in your People’....

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