How do you get job candidates as well as leaders transferring to a different company location to fully grasp the culture they’ll experience in their new job? A company culture is intangible, not something you can see or touch. It’s something you feel based on how you...

Are you experiencing this too? Are you finding yourself having to work with senior leaders who are stuck, bogged down in details, sometimes more concerned about proving themselves "right" than improving the situation, and similar types of difficult behaviors? Well,...

Asking and answering questions comes naturally to @MarceltheTherapyDog as well to us humans. Marcel doesn’t talk though; instead, he gestures with his head and front paws and occasionally barks to make requests. As for answering questions, he responds by positioning...

“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy” – the quintessential song that generally captures this season’s mood. Yet I’m not feeling it, even as “fish are jumping and the cotton is high” in the Charleston, SC region where I now live. Instead, I’m preoccupied with my heavy...

This is my plea to try multi-purposing instead of multitasking. Yes, it's tempting to multitask, but it's bad for your brain and the quality of the work you're trying to do. When you rapidly switch between two complex tasks, such as participating in a meeting and...

What an emotionally rich summer of 2024, thanks to the new critically acclaimed Pixar movie, Inside Out 2. The newest animated feature from Disney’s subsidiary is the biggest blockbuster of the year so far, reaching $1 billion at the box office in just 19 days. Inside...

If you’re serious about wanting to become a better communicator and you haven’t yet read or listened to the book Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, please check it out. The award-winning author Charles Duhigg has written a clear,...

How's your social fitness these days? Yes, social fitness is a thing, and actually more important than your physical and mental fitness in terms of a long, happy life. Social fitness is all about building and maintaining quality relationships, according to Dr. Robert...

Delegation. Why is it so hard for many to entrust their work to others? Several leaders I’ve worked with this year have said they struggle delegating tasks and projects to team members. Their lack of delegation is causing them to feel overworked at the same time they...