Communication & Influencing skills tips. Answers to your questions about how to deal with difficult employees, turn a no into an opening and gain clarity on your own messaging.
If You Don’t Go After What You Want. You’ll Never Get It. The author Nora Roberts has written: “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you [...]
How To Manage Q&A Like A Pro Over the years I’ve seen great presentations fall apart—both online and in person—because the speaker hadn’t thought ahead about how to handle Q&A. Here are [...]
How to Run an Effective Virtual Meeting A friend of mine called yesterday to complain about the way his boss runs the weekly staff meeting. “He tells us to use the chat [...]
How to keep your Audience Engaged when Presenting Online It’s 4:00 pm. You’re the last presenter of a two-hour long agenda. Everyone is working remotely. How in the world are you going [...]
How to Network at a Virtual Summit? A client recently emailed me with this predicament: "I accepted a speaking gig for the networking opportunities before Covid-19 and #WFH. The event is now [...]
It's the 2nd month of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The economy is reshaping itself as I type this. Whether you love your current job, or have been furloughed, during uncertain times it's always [...]
Not long ago Forbes did a study on the topic of personal branding and reputation. They found that 70% of professionals believed they knew what their colleagues thought about them. Only 15% [...]
When I first started working with groups of women as part of their Leadership Development programs, I was shocked to discover how often we brushed off recognition for our own accomplishments. Someone [...]
Thanksgiving morning I found myself dressed as a clown marching down the streets of downtown Detroit with my husband and two cousins in America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I had a wonderful time [...]
Here’s a question for you, which US city increases its population by 20% once a year for an entire week? If you knew that the answer is San Francisco, then you probably also [...]
