Asking questions is one of the simplest and most powerful ways to advance your leadership skills and connect with your team. Questions challenge assumptions and encourage us to reach beyond what we think we already know. Good questions lead to innovative products and solutions. Questions build trust. As children, we ask questions easily and often.…
As a one-time customer of Yahoo!, I was staggered to learn that the biggest data breach in history occurred three years after 500 million to one billion Yahoo! customers had their information stolen. How could the company justify the delay in notification? What role did the board have in deciding when to communicate with customers,…
This post first appeared on Women 2.0, a community-driven media brand designed for aspiring and current innovators in technology. If one of your career goals is to serve on a board of directors, good for you! Board service is an exceptional opportunity to contribute your strengths to a worthy cause. It will allow you to grow…
Happy new year and I hope you are off to a wonderful and productive start! My goal has always been to provide you with valuable guidance on how to take small, incremental steps to advance in your career and achieve a life of success and happiness. As we jump into the new year, I’m eager…
For more tips on effective communication, download my free guide, 7 Secrets To Highly Effective Communications When reflecting on your recent communications, have you experienced any of the following? There was disconnect between what you said you wanted from your team and what they delivered. You were denied a promotion that you deserved (and requested). Your…
This article was originally featured on Business Woman Media – The website for ambitious women who seriously want to succeed in business and the corporate world. Some business leaders seem to have a gift for continually generating creative ideas. Consider Sara Blakely, whose innovative, original Spanx product later spawned dozens of other products for her company (not…
Gratitude is a gift you give to others because you’ve already given it to yourself, not in thanking yourself but in directing your mind toward what is true. Gratitude helps you see more clearly in good times and in challenging ones, too. In his autobiography, Eric Clapton wrote of two daily habits, one for morning, one…
With the holidays just around the corner, and Thanksgiving next week here in the U.S., this time of the year can be especially stressful. Your company aims to finish the final quarter of 2016 strong, you may be busy booking holiday travel and coordinating gatherings with friends and family, or spending time driving your kids…
This article was recently featured on Entrepreneur.com! At one time or another, every one of us will experience the aggravation of working with someone who should be fired. Often, the people in question are managers or co-workers who are apathetic and unmotivated, or perhaps they erode the culture through gossip or dishonesty. They complain instead of finding…
Are you looking for constant inspiration and daily, bite-sized doses of advice to help develop your leadership skills? Your Twitter feed can deliver that shot in the arm you need. If only there wasn’t so much content to scroll through! Well, not to worry. I’ve discovered a handful of leaders whose words will stoke the fires of…