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Found 6 Skills
Transform emotional reactions or venting messages from collaborators into professional, diplomatic responses suitable for difficult workplace situations with toxic managers.
Apply framing theory to analyze how selection, emphasis, and exclusion shape interpretation of issues. Use this skill when the user needs to deconstruct media or organizational frames, evaluate how different frames affect audience perception and decision-making, or design strategic communication frames — even if they say 'how is this issue being portrayed', 'why do people see this differently', or 'how should we frame this message'.
Analyzes events through poetic lens using close reading, metaphor analysis, imagery, rhythm, form analysis, and attention to language's emotional and aesthetic dimensions. Provides insights on emotional truth, symbolic meaning, human experience, aesthetic impact, and expressive depth. Use when: Understanding emotional dimensions, symbolic meaning, communication impact, cultural resonance, human experience. Evaluates: Imagery, metaphor, rhythm, emotional truth, symbolic depth, aesthetic power, resonance, ambiguity.
Apply agenda-setting theory (McCombs & Shaw) to analyze how media salience transfers to public perception. Use this skill when the user needs to study media influence on public opinion priorities, evaluate issue salience transfer across media and public agendas, or design communication strategies that leverage agenda-setting effects — even if they say 'why is everyone talking about this topic', 'how does media shape public priorities', or 'which issues get attention and why'.
Plan and execute organizational or technical changes. Trigger with "we're changing", "rolling out", "migration plan", "how do we communicate this change", "change management plan", or when the user is planning a change that affects people, processes, or systems.
Applies the SUCCESs Framework from Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Use when crafting messages that need to be remembered, writing pitches, creating presentations, designing training materials, telling stories that drive action, or diagnosing why a message isn't landing. The six principles (Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Stories) diagnose and fix communication failures. Triggers include 'how do I make this memorable', 'my pitch isn't landing', 'people forget what we told them', 'how do I tell a better story', 'our training materials are boring', 'how do I present data compellingly', 'nobody remembers our message', 'how do I get people to care about this', 'my writing is too abstract'. NOT for channel selection (use Traction), not for brand messaging structure (use StoryBrand), not for positioning (use Obviously Awesome).