Less Chatter, More Matter: The Communications Podcast
Communications expert, business owner, group fitness instructor...that's your podcast host, Mel Loy! In the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, Mel shares tips on how to improve your communication skills, and interviews with the experts.
In 2020, after almost 20 years in corporate communications, Mel (happily) took a redundancy from her full-time, executive corporate job and went out on her own, founding her communications agency, Cuttlefish Communications.
These days, she's a sought-after speaker, workshop facilitator, and consultant, working for some of the biggest brands in Australia and popping up on speaker line-ups at conferences world wide.
Expect short, entertaining episodes packed with valuable tips that will inspire you to try new things. Communication tips to improve your relationships at work, navigate crises, internal communication, and deliver change are top of the agenda.
Less Chatter, More Matter: The Communications Podcast
Latest Episodes
#170 Why communication isn’t always the solution (and when comms should say no)
Communication is often seen as the solution to every problem in an organisation. Low engagement, unhappy teams, backlash to decisions and somehow, the default response is usually “let’s communicate more.”... what if communication isn’t t...
#169 How psychological safety plays a role in comms (especially change comms) (ft. Dr. Samantha Rush)
Every day, we make around 35,000 decisions, of which most of them are fast, subconscious, and driven by emotion rather than logic. So what does that mean for how we communicate change?In this episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podc...
#168 Communicating in uncertainty
"Oh, when things settle down" - this is an almost direct quote from every business, ever. However, do things actually ever settle down anymore? We went from COVID to mass shutdowns, fuel crises to wars... we can pretty well assume t...
#167 5 things every advocacy communication strategy needs
When we think about change communication, it’s often within the walls of an organisation in things like new systems, strategies, or restructures. However, advocacy communication operates in a very different environment, where audiences are not ...
#166 How to make your communications effective (ft. Lisa Partridge)
As AI continues to reshape the communication landscape, one thing remains unchanged: the need to put humans at the centre of how we communicate.In this episode of Less Chatter, More Matter, we welcome back Lisa Partridge, learning design...