For more tips on how to communicate effectively, 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…
It’s that time of year when you may be thinking of looking for a promotion where you work, or looking to move up, on, and out of your current organization. You can increase your odds of landing the job of your dreams with a few tips that I have found valuable. I’ve updated one of…
Success is 15 percent due to professional knowledge and 85 percent due to “the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people.” Dale Carnegie said this 78 years ago, yet all of us know what research reveals: That many leaders or aspiring leaders miss the mark on communicating ideas that…
A friend recently called me and said she was both thrilled and a little nervous to be invited back for her third interview for a job position she has wanted for over six months. She’s smart and talented, and has obviously done a lot of things right by advancing through two previous rounds of interviews.…
Questions are the secret sauce that lead to big and small successes in your career development. Asking questions can be a pivotal tool in accelerating your trajectory to achieve the impact, influence, and rewards you want. Questions ignite new paths of thinking, challenge assumptions, and encourage us to reach beyond what we think we already…
The emails you write are either helping you move forward and standout, tread water, or worse, an email can diminish your reputation, or embarass you, as the hacked emails from Sony Pictures revealed. Think about it. If you’re like most people you write hundreds (or more) emails each week. Yet most of us believe that…