Communication

A friend of mine is teaching a finance class at the University of Iowa and he asked me to share my solopreneur story. As I contemplated my talk, I took time to consider which elements of my [...]

“We’ll, there’s another one out there now,” my friend quipped. We were meeting for coffee and, as so many of us do, she was killing time while our orders came up by scrolling through her emails [...]

Being accessible is important when you’re a manager with a team to lead. But what happens when your team takes advantage of that accessibility and interruptions threaten to sabotage your own [...]

You won’t find me in front of a TV very often, and when you do, one of the last things I’m probably watching is a reality TV series. But (surprise!) a couple of weeks ago I actually watched some [...]

An email with the subject line of “crickets” snagged my attention recently. The email was from a friend and it was about the way a company treated her after a series of job interviews. More than [...]

I’ve been hearing a lot of bad job-departure stories recently and this has me thinking about how organizations handle employee off-boarding. There’s a lot of emphasis on hiring employees. HR [...]

Find the lesson, even if a training seminar doesn’t have immediate applicability. It was one of a dozen “training” sessions I attended that year. Luckily, opportunities to learn about a new idea [...]

Cliché but true; it’s all about the little things. The smallest gestures to acknowledge others (or lack thereof) send a powerful message. The new employee in Accounting brings about twenty years [...]

Predictability increases trust. The long holiday weekend provided a wonderful excuse to get together with some girlfriends. We sat in a corner of the bar catching up on recent life events. Our [...]

‘Tis the season! Enjoy a couple of my favorites.   Oprah Winfrey Colorado College 2019 The truth is, you cannot fix everything. But what you can do, here and now, is make a decision, because [...]