Visualize Good Communication
How do you want to communicate at work? Start with a vision of what it feels like when communication works well – then you’ll be able to recognize it when it happens again.
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presence
Use Your Brain – it’s Good for Mindfulness
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
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Fundamentals of Communication: the 5 Ws
(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
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Leadership – a linguistic ruse
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
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