How to be more curious at work
How often do you think kids ask questions? About 70 to 80% of the time they’re talking, according to the authors Tom Pohlmann and Neethi Mary Thomas in their Harvard Business Review article, “Relearning the Art of Asking Questions.” These numbers come from the poll...
How to improve the conversation in the room
Are you experiencing this too in your meetings and other face-to-face events? Groups of 12 to 18 individuals who convene face-to-face are speaking up, pushing back, and staying together. Over the past six months, about half a dozen of in-person groups I’ve...
Why and how to avoid “best practices”
“Anytime somebody starts talking to me about ‘best practices,’ I thank them for their time and shut down the conversation. Things move so fast today that by the time you identify something as a ‘best practice,’ there’s a good chance it’s already out of date.” –...
How to protect your well-being from the dangers of stress
Stress can take a long-term toll on your brain as well as your body without you even knowing it, according to research. It's as if your body's natural alarm system gets stuck on the "on" switch and can't turn off. Check out How To Protect Your Well-Being From The...
3 ways to help you engage better with employees
What do accountability, conscientious recognition and extraordinary moments have in common? Alone or combined, these three unconventional actions can help you improve employee engagement at your organization—however you define engagement. Here’s how. 1.Build in...
How to use your voice to support humanity
To what extent do you and your leaders talk about social and political issues at work? If you’re concerned about the risks of talking about topical issues with key stakeholders inside and outside of your organization, please reconsider. “To be silent is to be...
How to improve your performance on the pronoun test
Do you use the pronoun test? It’s a simple diagnostic tool for assessing organizational health, created by Robert Reich, the US Labor Secretary in the Clinton Administration and now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Here’s how to use the test:...
How to drive success with three little words
These three little, yet powerful, words--tight, loose, tight--can help you drive success in a number of different venues. For example, you can apply the principles of tight, loose, tight in strategy, agile, performance management conversations, presentation...
How to turn time management into better “me management”
How well are you managing a precious personal resource—your time? As the saying goes, we all have the same amount of time each day. How we use our time says volumes about us and the lives we lead. From that perspective, time management is really “me” management,...
