Our new research focuses on the effects of filler words - on us, and our audiences - and what we can do to eradicate them RECENTLY I was...

How a chance meeting in the 1970s changed the world's political leaders for the worse - starting with Margaret Thatcher Pic: Allan Warren...

"What should I do with my hands?" is a question we hear every week. So our researcher dug deep into academic papers to cast some light on...

The final piece in a series of five reflections from 20 years in the comms trenches I’ve come to the conclusion – after years of trying...

The fourth in a series of five reflections from 20 years in the comms trenches I know, it's been a while. Don't you hate it when work...

Take ‘briefings’, abbreviate it; you get briefs. And that’s what they should be. Brief. If your time is short, my work is done: make...

Published on October 4, 2022 Office of U.S. Ambassador to U.K., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Guarente + Company Ltd. Imagine, as...

Like Mr Bond, just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean you should... but having a formal gating process might prevent some media...

It’s taken a decade, and two defining crisis responses, for the banking industry to finally look beyond one set of stakeholders and...

This week, The Economist's Bartleby column took aim at 'woolly' corporate communications for using words like 'innovative' and...

Last week Matt Guarente got schooled by a Frenchman on language compression... There's a French lesson in comms that goes "Ici, on vend...

Six things we now know that reporters will quote you on by Matt Guarente Leaders I'm advising very often ask me, ‘what makes a good...

Leaders of businesses come in all guises. The call for them to be 'authentic' when they communicate might be missing a bigger point......

Our new research uncovers the three types of questions reporters ask business leaders – and when they ask them. Guarente + Company...

Unless you actually have run 50 miles to say something, it's time to think a little more deeply, argues Matt Guarente in our latest blog....

... it's easier to give a good answer. The first cut of new Guarente + Company research that gets to the heart of interviewers' intent...