Communication: Improving Communication

The Thinking Behind The Tweet You can choose to adjust your personality so it is more pleasing and less annoying. Sometimes, the choice involves biting your…

As a child I was admonished to be respectful and take care not to hurt other people’s feelings. In general, that’s OK advice. Regardless, I have found it…

Business leaders are opportunity-seekers and problem-solvers. Business leaders need help so they can take on ever-bigger opportunities and solve ever-bigger…

I found myself comparing business success to sports success. I concluded it would definitely fall in the zone of some sort of endurance competition…an…

The Thinking Behind The Tweet You can choose to adjust your personality so it is more pleasing and less annoying. Sometimes, the choice involves biting your…

The Thinking Behind The Tweet Our eyes fare better. Even our mouths, which cause us so much trouble, fare better. This helps us understand why dogs are Mans'…

While there's no question relationships are changing , d on't believe the hogwash about the death of relationship selling. The fact is, for many people…

Common sense tells us: Most people look for a fair deal, where both parties exchange value, Some people look to cheat others, heads I win - tails you lose …

Confidence is a personal thing. There is no reason to design your self-confidence in a way that fits someone else’s viewpoint or rules. Your self-confidence…

Some followers are intimidated by Leader's self-confidence . Here are some Spirited suggestions, to help you make sure you do not come across that way: Be…

Subtitle: Death by hyperbolic hyperbolas of hyperbole When I was a child, the adults in our neighbourhood had a habit of stopping me and asking me to answer…

Strong people tend to measure their progress: strong people enjoy adding their own weights. No strong person will tolerate people who 'just keep adding…

Just the other day, I met with Pinocchio. I listened to him. I couldn't help but pay attention to his body language...so packed with enthusiasm and emotion…

Have you ever noticed, nobody ever says that to you? People do not call you to come so they can listen to you. They call you to listen to them.

Over the last few years, I have written and talked about the communication problems that happen when business leaders use words like Passion and Integrity to…

Values are concepts covering things important and admirable to us (our minds). Values are our perceptions of intrinsically valuable or desirable ways of…

While you may feel cuddled or inspired while you deliver messages about integrity and workplace passion you will regularly miss the mark if you assume others…

Fire when the cost of presence exceeds its value: that's on the self-serving end of things [...and that is one of the ends] Fire when bad habits violate…

Have Culture - if it isn't defined it will define itself Give Compliments - everyone wants to use talents to create value...and get regular pats on the back…

Know how to communicate the essence of the role, seek simple descriptions; avoid lengthy series of tasks and responsibilities Magnetic job postings - show…

When you aim to give people more than they expect… You must be ready, willing and able to go the extra mile. You must embrace Napoleon Hill’s ‘QQS’…

Many years ago, Peter Urs Bender presented a wonderful, simple piece of advice: There are only 4 reasons you should give presentations - to inform

Some humans cannot help themselves - they have a bad habit - they always crow when they know. When humans crow what they know it tends to be off-putting. It…

While watching some of the U.S. Presidential "news coverage" a few things came to mind... Talk is Cheap. That's a saying, which carries some wisdom. Verbal…

Because it is important to you, you probably go out of your way to help some people understand what you do when you're at work. If you do that, you may be…

William MacDonald described Benjamin Franklin as a man who could control the common littleness of human nature 1 . It is clear MacDonald had tremendous…

During a discussion with a friend, the topic of ' victims ' arose. I thought it would be interesting to see a written summary of his thoughts on why many…

Curiosity opens the door to alternative realities: this is discovered when you are curious, when you ask questions and when you listen to other people's…

We became allergic to the word "No" when we were young and now all of us don't like to hear that word when others say it to us. And, our aversion to the word…

There's value in silence and stillness. I suppose I never really grasped that until I read the words of North American Indians , gained an understanding of…