Healing Has Been On My Mind Lately
Communication alone can't and won't heal us, but care and communication is a good start.
I Had No Idea How a Few Words Could Change Someone Else’s Life
Before the pandemic, when I shared meals with others, I had lunch with a client. She let slip that she was unhappy with her job.
Your Employees are Your Most Important Audience
Despite, or perhaps because of the pandemic, internal communications is finally getting its due. Here are few tips for how to connect with employees especially as businesses contemplate a return to work.
The Awesome and Powerful Leadership Lesson of the Iguana
Sometimes the most powerful leadership lessons come from unexpected and unlikely sources. For me, my teacher was a creepy and yet beautiful green iguana. Find out what this spectacular lizard had to teach.
So You Want to Be a Thought Leader
Thought leadership can increase your visibility and build your credibility in the marketplace. But here's the rub: to be a thought leader, you have to have thoughts that matters. Find out the seven things you need to do to establish yourself and your company as a thought leader.
Crossing the Writing Finish Line
For a runner, nothing is more exhilarating than coming to the finish line after giving it your all in a road race. That same feeling overwhelmed me when the brown UPS truck showed up a few days ago with six cartons of my new book, Prism of Value: Connect, Convince and Influence When It Matters Most.
Viewpoint: To thrive on social media, ditch the ego
Jul 5, 2018, 2:13pm EDT Updated Jul 6, 2018, 10:33am EDT
This article originally appeared on BizJournals.com
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Bigger or Louder Doesn’t Make Me Hear You
It’s an election year and with the primaries in full swing in my county, my mailbox overfloweth with postcards from candidates. They all look and sound alike with promises of fighting for me, for better education, for jobs, for better health care. In order to stand out, these political hopefuls are putting their bland messages on bigger card stock.
Walk Your Way to Creative Writing
After a few hours of staring at the blank Word document on my screen, I had had enough. My creative writing was hardly that. I was starting to surf the Internet for Real Housewives gossip and knew I needed an intervention.
Want to Write Better: Get Out the Verbal Pruning Shears
Imagine you had to pay $100 for every word, whether in email or conversation. Would it change the way you write and speak? Odds are we’d be much briefer. So much of our online and spoken discourse is filled with unnecessary words.