You might not be a speaker, but I was ruminating on my professional (at least the speaking part) and came up with these contradictions I thought you might be interested in. As you get older you get better. As you charge more the more you are in demand (you hope.)…
In a workshop this week one person complained that the communication technique I was suggesting would be spotted as a “technique”. You know the old complaint: “Have you just come from a communication workshop?” Nonsense. Here’s the reality (from my perspective of course). You can’t improve your communication until you…
You don’t need to go to the bookstore to know there will always be more stuff written on leadership than you can absorb. The “new” leadership models promoted by Drucker, Covey, Peters, De Pree, and Bennis (and many more) promoted hundreds more authors to throw their two bits into the…
The art of making time work for you We are working in a time of distraction – endless emails, back-to-back meetings, interruptions, and growing work demands are taking their toll. People are constantly rushing, multi-tasking, bringing work home, and struggling to find time for themselves and their family. Based on…
It happens innocently, two people need to discuss something so the time gets booked, two others are invited to “keep them in the loop”, one more calls in remotely and before you know it you have “meeting creep” (like scope creep, but more sinister). Sure, meetings are invaluable–we connect, see…