Category: Lead

Perhaps this sounds obvious, but Good Leadership is Good Communications, and vice versa. This came to mind – yet again – as I’m teaching at a client’s business school campus in

I’ve long believed that . I also believe there are important phrases every leader needs to know, and they find the right situation and time to ensure their audiences hear

Many people deservedly know Don Miguel Ruiz from his appearances on Oprah Winfrey’s television show to speak about his philosophy in the book The Four Agreements. I’ve owned the book

A big fan of lists, I kept an article entitled The Innovator vs. The Pseudo-Innovator for its insight into the characteristics of an innovator. It’s a good list for two specific reasons.

Some days I wake up to a marvellous gift via e-mail. This morning, my friend Hertha sent me this article from The New York Times on the U.S. military and

If you’re a lover of ‘lists,’ this post of the seven different types of meetings will be catnip to you. The list comes from a book that keeps finding is

The best task management tool, the Eisenhower Time Management Matrix organises and priorities tasks into two equal and related attributes – importance and urgency – to help a person get more work done and increase their productivity.

You may not recognise the name, but Albert Mehrabian authored some of the most famous studies in communications research. His most well-known hypothesis: When two people communicate face-to-face, how much

Because presenting sitting down impacts so much of one’s presentation skills, there are some things to consider to ensure your effectiveness isn’t affected as well. Body When you sit to

Should you present standing up? Or sitting down? There’s difference. The decision is not inter-changable. When I lead a Presentation Skills workshop, participant will usually say they’d prefer to sit