by Liz Guthridge | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog
Facilitating a large virtual meeting is a lot harder than conducting many small virtual meetings, and way harder than large in-person meetings. At least that’s my experience, based on my one virtual big meeting in March 2020 versus more than 100 in-person meetings of...
by Liz Guthridge | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog
How do you separate the signal from the noise as both a sender and receiver of information? When information is noise, it’s a human-made pollutant. Just consider the downsides of information that’s inaccurate, misleading and overwhelming. Information...
by Liz Guthridge | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog
Did best-selling author Simon Sinek have any idea how prophetic his new book The Infinite Game would be? At the April 2018 WorkHuman conference, Sinek gave us participants a preview of his latest thinking. Sinek explained that after reading James Carse’s 1986 book,...
by Liz Guthridge | Mar 7, 2020 | Blog
If you’re looking for a “motivational” speaker for your in-person or virtual event, do yourself and your participants a favor and please reconsider. At the risk of alienating anyone who likes a good cry when hearing a heart-wrenching personal story and the members of...
by Liz Guthridge | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog
While the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak demands our attention, please keep in mind there are positive contagions out there that also deserve your awareness. Emotions, feelings, and attitudes are contagious too, especially at work. For example, one of my clients...
by Liz Guthridge | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog
CEOs are ranking soft skills more valuable than technical skills, according to IBM’s fall 2019 report “The Enterprise Guide to Closing the Skills Gap.” Yet, the term “soft skills” has a bad rap for a number of reasons, as I explain in my Forbes...
