How to think more in meetings

How to think more in meetings

How do you set up your staff meetings to better balance thinking with doing? One answer is to ask more questions. When you ask thoughtful, expansive questions, you encourage participants to reflect individually as well as with each other. Even better, as they think,...
How to feel more like a human at work

How to feel more like a human at work

One size doesn’t fit all for clothes, bicycles, prescription drugs – and certainly not humans at work. That message came through loud and clear from many presenters, forums and discussions at the 2017 WorkHuman conference. The more than 1,600 of us who attended the...
Want to get better? Be a work in progress!

Want to get better? Be a work in progress!

Which  term do you prefer? Being considered a “work in progress?” “In beta?” A “test case?” Something else? Call yourself whatever resonates most with you. Just don’t describe yourself as “complete.” Gone are the days when we declare people,...
How to be a more likeable communicator than Roger Ailes

How to be a more likeable communicator than Roger Ailes

“If you’ve read this far, you know by now that one of the themes of this book is that we’re all human. We make mistakes. We’re vulnerable. We’re not perfect.” – Epilogue, You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are by Roger Ailes with Jon Kraushar....