When something is obvious, it does not require embellishment.

Effective business cases foster ongoing alignment rather than simply persuading stakeholders at a single moment in time,

It is particularly useful in strategic planning, systems thinking, and collaborative decision-making.

...attractiveness can play a significant role in routine or low-stakes decisions.

Where most advisors lose the "trust" in "trusted advisor" is when they mix the roles of “advisor” with “decision maker.”

FINESSE Creates Effective Communication to Senior Management. FINESSE is peer-reviewed and battle-tested. Most importantly, it works.

The most important aspect is understanding your ethical framework as you make decisions and communicate to others as a trusted advisor.

The time to develop a default ethical framework is before the action occurs. Spend some time studying ethics. More importantly, watch the...

Deciding what is most important can be difficult. Deciding what is most important as a group is usually difficult and frustrating....

Each month CWF provides guest insights related to a technical topic involving big decisions with high complexity and uncertainty....

It's really important for everyone involved in decision making to understand which level of decision they're dealing with. This includes...

Facilitating with FINESSE: A Guide to Successful Business Solutions is a practitioner's guide for ten common applications that...

This quote says how you say something is important, but some people think what you say is just as important. They believe that both...

This guest article is a lightning round with Rebecca Bowyer, Engineering Director at ReWa in Greenville, South Carolina. Becca has worked...

Effective communication is challenging when complexity and uncertainty are elevated. Decision makers want the best information possible....

The organization of any presentation is important but is often overlooked by technical professionals. Technically trained professionals...

How we provide business communication to senior management is different from how we communicate with our peers. Our language reflects the...

Martin Schwirn's quote emphasizes that the ability to communicate results is an essential aspect of any information-gathering effort....

Keeping decision making on the appropriate level is critical to all – the decision maker, the parties impacted by the decision, and the...