Episode 94: How to Listen to Engage Stakeholders/The Annual Page Center's Awards for Integrity

As communicators are increasingly tasked with engaging all of their stakeholders, organizational listening becomes essential, whether in corporations or non-profits. Quinnipiac University strategic communication professor and senior research fellow at The Page Center, Katie Place explains her research on organizational listening and marginalized publics and how companies can engage all stakeholders in new ways, simply by taking the time to sit down and listen. Denise Sevick Bortree of the Arthur W. Page Center at Penn State highlights free training modules they have produced to equip communicators to be effective listeners. Denise also highlights the upcoming Page Center's Annual Awards for Integrity on February 22 at 7 p.m. EST, which will recognize three public communications leaders who have demonstrated the value of “truth well told.”