Archive for January 2026
The question you hope you won’t get
Every leader has that question. The one you hope doesn’t come up in a media interview, a stakeholder meeting, a board presentation, or even a staff meeting. You’ve kind of thought about how you might answer it if it ever came up, but you quietly avoid it. The issue is, those kinds of questions come…
Read MoreThe moment the same answer landed completely differently
In a media training session with the head of a government agency, we were practising a tough but fair question. They answered it accurately.Carefully.Exactly as they’d been advised to. But it didn’t land. It sounded controlled. Slightly guarded. Not wrong, just hard to trust. We stopped. Reset.I asked them to answer the exact same question…
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