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I teach clients to develop communication skills that help them stay present, effective and engaged at work. These skills are profoundly helpful and are easily observed as beneficial when practiced in the day-to-day. But using them when activities are predictable and people are relatively agreeable is the easy part. The hard part is putting good […]
Use Your Brain – it’s Good for Mindfulness Read More »
(Plus an H, an S & and an extra W) “Didn’t you hear? Journalism’s dead – it’s in all the papers.” That’s what a journalist friend of mine said when I said I wanted to talk with him about journalism and how it relates to communication. While the joke and looming epitaph about his 40-year
Fundamentals of Communication: the 5 Ws Read More »
The 4 Things To Do Forever are not rocket surgery, but they are tricky because at least one of them is often missed when we try communicating with one another at work.
4 Things To Do Forever Read More »
Making the average workday sound super duper important. Perhaps it’s my inborn disposition to want to challenge the status quo, but part of me is tired of hearing about “leadership.” I’m bored by the organizational and business speak that lauds high achievers, charismatic personae, innovative thinkers, strategic visionaries, integrative performers, and the like. Every working
Leadership – a linguistic ruse Read More »
Here’s a question: how many of us consider wildly subjective factors when making management decisions? Things like justifying an employee’s odd behavior because his kid just left for college; or choosing one intern over another because his name is only one letter off from your favorite author’s and that seems like a nice coincidence; or
Mars in Retrograde & Other Workplace Issues Read More »
Are we practicing what we preach? This post was written for and originally posted on the PMGblog. It takes a look the trouble with work/life balance idea through a social responsibility and sustainability lens. It was based on an earlier post here on Slate. Many thanks to Nicole Ravlin and PMG – great People Making
CSR, Sustainability and the Illusion of “Work/Life Balance” Read More »
We all struggle with how to make our lives what we want them to be. Our goals, dreams, tasks, obligations, chores and aspirations all compete for our attention. Add the goals and needs of others – spouses, parents, children, friends, colleagues, etc. – and it is a miracle our brains can possibly organize our lives
Work/Life Balance is Bunk. Read More »
I recently witnessed the birth of a cynic. It was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen. And as I watched it happen, I felt powerless to stop it. A smart, effective, loyal employee had endured several years of oppressive management at a job he liked and was now a working for new ownership
The Sad Value of Cynics Read More »
Anybody out there work with humans? My condolences. We can be just awful sometimes. We can be wonderful, too. Most of us try to be helpful, aware and dependable more often than not. But we also have times when all bets are off and we are impeding, distracted and emotionally unpredictable. The fact that we
The Trouble with Colleagues… Read More »
Transparent Communication & Financial Health This is post is in response to Tom Szaky’s piece in the You’re the Boss section of the New York Times. Transparency is vital for building effective communication in a company. In order for employees and managers to gain confidence in that transparency, a company also must work to sustain
Clarifing the Importance of Transparency at Work Read More »
