by Liz Guthridge | May 8, 2021 | Blog
Company leaders ordering employees to stop talking about politics at work is akin these days to generals who are preparing to fight the last war. How do you win a war of words when the conversation has moved past politics? The new dividing line is between facts and...
by Liz Guthridge | Apr 27, 2021 | Blog
Have you discovered “the power of yet”? This three-letter word is especially potent for increasing learning, building engagement, and improving self-confidence, especially when working with powerful jerks. In my Forbes article, How to use the ‘power...
by Liz Guthridge | Apr 21, 2021 | Blog
Learning about Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives has been a memorable experience during the Covid-19 pandemic. The book’s author, Dr. Michele Gelfand, is a professor in cross cultural psychology at the...
by Liz Guthridge | Apr 10, 2021 | Blog
As the days grow longer and warmer this spring, the trees, bushes and flowers are responding with healthy new growth that fills the air with wonderful sights and smells. Amid all of this beautiful new growth outdoors, how well are your latest “culture adds” taking...
by Liz Guthridge | Apr 2, 2021 | Blog
“Know your audience” is great advice for actors, musicians and other performance artists. For those of you working in organizations, “know your audience” is bad advice because it sends the wrong message. It’s too easy to interpret the phrase as follows: “You’re...
by Liz Guthridge | Mar 25, 2021 | Blog
If you want to be an inclusive leader or someone who strives to be more inclusive in how you relate to colleagues and others, you need to be inclusive with your communication. In other words, your talk needs to match your walk on your path to create a more inclusive...
