CommCore Blog and News

Client Spotlight: Providing Executive Briefing Skills to the Federal Government

Executive Briefing Skills TrainingExecutive briefing skills are a cornerstone to success, whether you’re presenting information to your team, your supervisor, or to an audience of decision-makers. Your ability to brief senior executives in a compelling way can be a game-changer for your career personally, and for your team’s objectives agency-wide. Read more

Welcome our Fall Intern, Vicky!

Vicky Chen is a sophomore student at Vanderbilt University, majoring in Economics and Sociology with a minor in Business.

Three words I would use to describe myself:

Goal-oriented, Motivated, Responsible

Why intern at CommCore? Read more

The AAA Strategy for Reputation Management

In a recent APCO post about protecting reputation through Issue Management, Deanna Javadi and Jim Moorehead write that: An effective issues management program is proactive and always changing day-to-day.  An organization must continuously monitor issues and implement different practices to “avoid surprises, anticipate new needs, and act quickly and proactively.”   Read more

Andy Gilman, CommCore CEO quoted in Fortune on Lessons CEOs Can Learn From Bob Iger’s Strike Comments

Andrew Gilman, President and CEO of CommCore Consulting Group, said Iger broke a cardinal rule of PR – not repeating or introducing negative ideas, whether asked about them or not.

“If you think it was disappointing, let the university professor [or] a labor expert make those comments, that it’s ‘unrealistic,’ as opposed to you doing that,” says Gilman. Read more

Presentation Training with CommCore’s Keith Blackman

By Ellie Ewing, Summer Associate 2023

From visuals to vocals, presentations are a powerful tool to deliver information, educate others, and leave a lasting impression. I had the opportunity to sit in a presentation training with Keith Blackman, a senior consultant at CommCore where he shared tips on delivering influential and memorable presentations. Read more