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CULTIVATING AMBASSADORS WITHIN YOUR ORGANIZATION

There’s no question about it: You need effective communicators within your organization, or, to put it in other words, you need skillful ambassadors.

Perhaps you’re experiencing low morale, rolling out a new initiative, wanting to boost or refine marketing efforts, needing to decrease employee turnover, growing in leaps and bounds, preparing for a productivity increase, or just know your organization can be performing better. As a result, you've become enlightened, realizing that more skillful communication is crucial to these goals.

With that decision behind you, you're ready to scale the next peak: How to hire or groom the right person(s) to help usher in a new era of excellent communication in your firm. Do you hire? Can you cultivate skillful communicators from within your team?

The full text of this article offers tips for cultivating ambassadors in the following situations:

• I’m a small-business owner who sees potential in a current employee;
• I’m the communication leader in a corporation. A co-worker in another department has recommended one of her employees for the position so he won't be laid off;
• I want to recruit communication ambassadors company-wide, from all departments, as part of our communication program;
• One of my employees has had sole responsibility of the internal newsletter for five years. Our restructuring effort requires that he take on new, more strategic responsibilities. Is it possible that he's not prepared for this expanded contribution?
• I need help from an outside expert to help me decide exactly what I need.

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