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Do You Want to Improve Your Health, Reputation and Bank Account? Try This!
Reading headlines today, it jumps out that many people are experiencing greater anxiety and exhaustion. Many people are considering or have left jobs that were causing them stress or where they did not feel appreciated. The pandemic has seemed to have an effect of...
Spoiler Alert: Your Words Matter, Especially On A Remote Team
I got a new meeting on my calendar this morning. It was scheduled with my calendar appointment link, so the title basically just says meeting and the time, the standard for the app. In the description of what the meeting was to be about it said something like, “Want...
Shark Tank Winner Secrets and How to Use Them To Get What You Want At Work
Body language expert, Vanessa Van Edwards and her team analyzed hundreds of hours of footage of the show Shark Tank to see what made winning pitches stand out and get offers from the sharks. The things she and her team found can be used by you to build influence with...
A Surprising Way You Might Be Eroding Trust On Your Remote Team
The Erosion of Trust In her work as a body language expert, Vanessa Van Edwards has studied ways that body language impacts trust. One of the first things we notice when we see another person (in person) is their hands. This is a left-over survival mechanism from our...
We Need To Talk — About Difficult Conversations
A quick search brings back some staggering estimates of the cost of avoiding difficult conversations – cost calculations include dollars lost due to lost productivity, stress induced health costs, resignations and cost of hiring and legal and investigation and PR...
What’s Your Team’s Purpose
In my work with leaders and teams, I often find that there is a lack of clarity around purpose. This can be overall purpose of the team, or more specifically around purpose of an individual’s contribution to the team or a lack of connection between a team’s purpose...
Accelerate, Adapt, Anchor: Creating Lasting Change for Real Teams
I was recently asked about a problem facing teams and leaders today, the topic was leading change. While no change is the same and best practices for one change or group may have disastrous results in a different environment, I have found it helpful to think about...
Are you wasting your single most important productivity tool?
How often do you have 1:1 meetings with your team? Regularly scheduled and honored 1:1 meetings are the best productivity and anti-burnout tool a leader has, yet many leaders are inconsistent with 1:1 meetings and whether you intend to or not, cancelling or not even...
How to be responsible for how you show up at work or on video
How do we get responsible for our energy? We have heard the expression – he/she brightens a room. We don’t actually mean that they added more physical light to the space, we mean the energy they bring to the space feels like light.