Sean Devlin

1 week ago | ragan.com | Sean Devlin

Ragan’s Council Career Conversations, a recurring video series from Ragan’s Communications Leadership Council, allows members to share the strategies that made them leaders and the lessons they’ve learned about their careers. Melissa Kanter, head of communications and brand experience at ING, told Ragan that aspiring comms leaders need to develop the relationships and skills that enable trusting connections with the rest of the organization.

2 weeks ago | ragan.com | Sean Devlin

Ragan’s Council Career Conversations, a recurring video series from Ragan’s Communications Leadership Council, allows members to share the strategies that made them leaders and the lessons they’ve learned about their careers. Beth Wilson, global communications leader at DPR Construction, told Ragan that comms leaders need to have a keen sense of what’s going on with the workforce in the years ahead.

3 weeks ago | ragan.com | Sean Devlin

Ragan’s Council Career Conversations, a recurring video series from Ragan’s Communications Leadership Council, allows members to share the strategies that made them leaders and the lessons they’ve learned about their careers. Eric Brown, director of corporate communications at Johns Manville, told Ragan that communications leaders should build their skills much like architects build houses. “Your basic building blocks include writing, editing and working on deadline,” he said.

3 weeks ago | ragan.com | Sean Devlin

In the employee life cycle, team members sometimes need to take a temporary step away from their job. Whether it’s for parental leave, medical leave or another reason, the sensitive nature of employee leave is an opportunity for employee communicators to help steer teams in the right direction. Regardless of an organization’s leave policies, comms pros can be the bridge that helps connect employees and their teams with resources and information.

3 weeks ago | ragan.com | Sean Devlin

Greetings, comms pros! Let’s take a look at a few news stories from the past week and see what we can learn from them. 1. Target’s chief requests meeting with civil rights leader amid DEI cut backlash. After months of backlash against Target for cutting many DEI programs, CEO Brian Cornell will meet with civil rights leader Al Sharpton to discuss the decision to roll back the diversity initiatives.