“He’s not heavy, he’s my brother.” While societies across the world continue adapting to the changes brought by the new variant of the COVID-19 virus, organizations are bringing employees back to the office for face-to-face meetings and in-person presentations. Whether to inform, sell or persuade, using visual elements in a presentation are critical to illustrate your key points and m...

Are you planning to attending the 23rd World Petroleum Congress in Houston, GasTech Conference in Dubai, Flame 2021 in Amsterdam, or World Energy Capital Assembly in London? With covid restrictions scaling back, these and many other exhibitions across the world are again opening their doors for delegates to network and learn about the latest industry developments. For those invited...

Lockheed Martin's First Female F-35 Production and Training Pilot Takes Flight* Monessa “Siren” Balzhiser took flight as Lockheed Martin’s first female F-35 Production and Training Pilot. The former United States Air Force F-16 pilot joins the ranks of an elite group of female F-35 pilots that have paved the way before her. Siren describes her first F-35 Production and Tr...

This comment was made in a recent UK market survey referring to the increasing focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). Not something you would normally expect to hear when discussing these three key non-financial factors of sustainability! Many stakeholders now look at a wide range of components that encompass ESG when measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of a...

ERCOT’s pitfalls during the Texas freeze of ’21 Meteorologists were predicting a weather event that the Lone Star State had not experienced in decades – freezing temperatures for multiple consecutive days. No one could have predicted that this historic winter storm would take the lives of almost 200 Texans. The casualties mainly resulted from hypothermia, carbon monoxide poison...

Spoken Word Communications is excited to partner again with TSPRA, the Texas School Public Relations Association, to provide a unique media training series for TSPRA members. Five online sessions filled with tips and techniques are designed to help you when the real situation arises. The course will prepare you to take questions from the media, respond to crisis situations, deal with...

The Value of Storytelling For more than five decades, in many American households Sunday evenings were characterized by an emblematic stopwatch with the sound of its unstoppable needles. Early in my journalistic career, this sound meant one thing: drop everything, sit down and pay attention. Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick. 60 Minutes was about to begin. The CBS television news ma...