Communication

Leaders never graduate from the school of self-awareness. I heard this line in a podcast and found it extremely meaningful. I am reminded that self-awareness is a continual journey, not a [...]

“Describe a favorite mentor and how they helped you.” It was a simple ice-breaker prompt, one intended to encourage connection and conversation. I was facilitating a team-building program with a [...]

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg The first thing that grabbed my attention was a statistic that 40% of the actions we take each day aren’t conscious [...]

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw As I kicked off a speaking engagement recently, I reminded my audience that [...]

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 [...]