Dear Aunt Betty, Thank you for the socks. Love, Billy. Did you write thank you notes for gifts when you were growing up? Back in the...

Would you agree we live in an increasingly polarized culture? Specifically, in the field of nutrition, polarization and controversy are...

Think back to the last product you purchased. For me, it was a new planner from someone on social media. Did I truly need another fancy...

What does it take to be compelling? To compel means to bring about something forcefully, but to be compelling has a much more desirable...

They say you can’t teach an old dog a new trick. I disagree. There are numerous stories of older people learning and achieving great...

As communicators, we won’t be effective if an audience can’t remember our message. Being memorable is essential to successful communication. What do we know about memory, and how can we use that knowledge to make communication memorable?

On the first day of class, when I asked the students in our Nutrition Communication course at Purdue to share why they had picked their...

What do you do? Can you answer that question in a clear and concise way? One of the biggest challenges facing anyone in business is...

Recently, my husband had a medical test in which the result read: “The trachea bronchial tree and esophagus are grossly unremarkable.” In...

How do you and the audiences you serve view life – as the unfolding of events that happen by chance – or as a process of self-directed...

Who is Mr. E and why shouldn’t I be him? Good question. He is the guest contestant in the “ Miss Communication ” pageant. In this...

When I ask audiences to select their top challenge in creating effective messages, what do you think they pick? Being more...

An audience needs to feel a connection with the communicator before they are ready to attend, listen, learn, and act on a message. They need to feel understood. They need to feel like they share common ground with you. They must believe that you are going to meet a need or solve a problem they have.

Communicating effectively is a challenge. Miscommunication is rampant – we misunderstand, misinterpret, misspell, mispronounce, and more....

Have you ever been misunderstood? Or misinterpreted? Have you ever relayed a message with a mistake or a misprint? Have you ever...

Similar to creating a baby, books have a long gestation period before they “arrive.” In fact, this book will have taken longer than three...

When I was young, a favorite feature in newspapers and magazines was “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” fun fact cartoon. It was fascinating to...

Well-constructed communication is like having a foundation that is unshakable. This photo shows our February house on Cape San Blas,...

This week I received an email with the subject line “book title” from the manager of acquisitions and development for the Academy of...

How well do you remember something? Research shows that over time, not so well. This phenomenon was described by Hermann Ebbinghaus in...