Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Team Talk
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
In the process of effectively managing a team, you also need to manage good communications skills. Beyond the usual memos, e-mails, phone calls, messages, discussions, speeches and the like, strong communication skills involve being aware of and keeping an eye on work in progress, knowing what kinds of situations and issues are brewing, developing partnerships and business collaborations, and promoting group participation and decision-making. These useful and more in-depth approaches are more aimed at providing long-term strategic support to the team.
It is understandable that we confuse methods of communications with their purpose. As is often the case, when we observe how successful exchanges occur, we assume that much of the effectiveness of the messages is due to the ways in which they were distributed. While these channels can improve their sending and receptive qualities, it is how we use them that makes the difference in our larger goals for projects, products and vision within an organization and further integrates us with its needs.
Being the Boss of Your Message
Taking charge—or alternately, taking responsibility--for your communication is essential to productivity. If you don’t know what you are trying to say, then who will? How can anyone else but you comprehend the messages you are trying to communicate? Attempting to dissect what …
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