(JENKINTOWN, Pa.)--Gavin-Hodges Associates has announced the opening of its 2008 public seminar series. Each one-day seminar is limited to 21 people. For more information, see the 2008 Registration Form or contact Ms. S.N. Jones, Marketing Associate at (215)287-0383.

"Gavin-Hodges' training sessions provide a proven successful process that communicators can follow to insure that they always ask operating managers all of the right questions. Always asking the right questions is the only way communicators 'train' operating managers to seek their advice and counsel. When we do not learn to ask the right questions, we create an endless loop of misunderstanding about who we are, what we do, what we can do and how what we do is connected to achieving our organizations' goals," said IABC-recommended Management Consultant-Trainer Roland L. Draughon, who leads the firm's seminars.

The Jenkintown, Pa.-based firm's public seminars for communication professionals include a one-day strategic communication targeting workshop, "Planning Communications to Support Organizational Objectives" followed by "Internal Communication Consulting for Bottom-Line Impact," an advance session on internal communication consulting with operating managers.

"Our company's operating managers don't come to us for communication process advice and counsel because organizational communication professionals accept that behavior from them. Operating managers don't ask us for counsel and advice because they don't know that we are communication management experts. Organizational communicators have not made it clear to operating managers that there is a brain attached to our hands--not just a laptop! Operating managers behave with communicators the way that they do because we, communication professionals, do not appear to believe, ourselves, that we're the communication experts in our organizations," said Draughon, an IABC Gold Quill Award of Excellence winner for communication training.

"Believe me. If organizational communication professionals do not believe that we're the communication process experts in our organizations, nobody else in our organizations is ever going to believe it either! Too many of us still are all too willing to trail along behind the battles--just in back of the supply wagons-- lugging our laptops, waiting and hoping to be told by organizational generals to produce messages and media about victories by organizational troops who are at the frontlines engaged in real organizational battles. If we are not yet ready to join the real organizational battles, then we had hurry and get ready!," Draughon added.

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