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I recently found myself on the other side of coaching and want to share the experience with you. Yes, it involves a dragon boat: a long boat with 18 oarsmen. I agreed to be a dragon boat oarsman [...]

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 [...]

Of all the potentially fabulous ways to spend a day in Las Vegas, most people wouldn’t pick sitting in a hotel conference room with a dozen strangers. But that’s exactly what I did last week when [...]

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 [...]

Do you think to talk or talk to think? His words were blunt: “When you don’t say anything, I assume you have nothing to contribute.” My colleague’s assumption was completely false. But I [...]

A quick way to understand how others perceive you – Just ask! A recent Twitter post by Tasha Eurich, a psychologist, researcher and author: My research team and I have found that 95% of [...]

An alternative to a New Year’s resolution? Collect data to begin the journey of increased self-awareness. I want to share a quick thought with you as we wrap up 2018. There is likely a temptation [...]

Surprises on either side of employment decisions are never ideal. Recently, I was involved in two discussions around the surprise consequences of another person’s unexpected employment decision. [...]

In last week’s Wednesday Wisdom, I concluded that the remedy for a lack of feedback was to “just ask for it.” In hindsight, I mentioned it like an easy, all-in-one solution. And while the concept [...]