Hello. I'm Craig Engstrom. I'm a business communication coach.

Persuasion, public speaking, business communication, and job leads for early careerists. (Other random stuff too.)

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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/09/linkedin-job-skills-human-capital-report-2017

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Gen Z Is Starting To Graduate College This Year, With Lots Of Debt And Optimism

2017’s graduates might be hopeful for their futures, but they still face the wage gap and unemployment.

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Notes for final.

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Job leads are back! Learn more about my work at Southern Illinois University Carbondale >> craigengstrom.ninja

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Tuesday Writing Tips: ANGLO-SAXON VS. LATINATE DICTION

So once upon a time, in the fifth and sixth centuries, the Angles and the Saxons of Schleswig-Holstein (think Germany) invaded Britain and brought with them their Germanic language. Then, several c…

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The Age of Transparency — Is Knowing Everything About Anything Worth It?

We must ask the question: is the age of unsolicited transparency a result of decades of government scandals and secrecy, or a symptom of…

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This Airline's Planes Break Down In Mid-Air 4 Times As Often As Any Other Airline's

You wouldn't think this possible, but it seems to be.

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Fellow CCO/OaC scholars, I need your answers on a question: What is a press release? Two thoughts that you may or may not agree with. First, a company issues a press release to inform its stakehold…

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A process to co-authoring.

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Cosmology, Culture, and Speech in Org Tragedies.

Cosmology Episodes

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Air France Flight 447

Video of AF 447

Yarnell Fire; Comprehensive report

Three Mile Island 

Cosmology averted: Miracle in the Hudson; Aircraft Carriers 

Keep reading

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Paedophobia

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Because we’re discuss process studies in organizational communication.

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Discussing Leadership

We’re discussion leadership in my Case Studies in Organizational Communication course tonight. We’ll be watching these two TED talks to frame the discussion of constitutive leadership, the idea that leadership is an outcome of communication contexts, symbols, orientations, and so forth.

As Work Gets More Complex: Six Rules to Simplify by Yves Morieux

A Gentler Kinder Philosophy of Success by Antoine de Button

The second video is more a philosophical talk, which I think helps us orient towards rhetorical situations in such a way that people can feel included (a leaderly thing to do).

Two articles worth reading to add even more substance to the conversation:

The Evils of Meritocracy

Colleges of the Future