Have you ever given a presentation and when it was over you said to yourself . . . “I should have been better prepared.”? Have you vowed in that moment of stress, frustration and with the sense of lost opportunity that “I’ll be better prepared next time.”? Then, as the next presentation came up like
It doesn’t matter where I go, or what I do, whether coaching, consulting, or training, the topic of communication always plays a part. It makes sense – we are all dealing with other people and communication is not only critical, but unavoidable. So when I came across this quotation from George Bernard Shaw, I thought it would be worth
During last night’s Republican National Convention, New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, gave the keynote address. During his speech, he made a point worthy of our consideration as leaders. Relatively early in the speech, Governor Christie said: The greatest lesson Mom ever taught me, though, was this one: she told me there would be times in your life
Engagement is a very trendy word, and while it is so powerful, because of its (over)use, people are making it harder to understand and think about than is necessary. In fact, it is writers, speakers and consultants (yep, people like me) who are adding to the confusion by injecting complexity where it isn’t needed. So
Workshops and lectures about decision making center around tools, data and processes. The thinking goes that to make the best decisions, the best data must be available and properly used. And since we often have lots of data, we need tools for parsing, analyzing, understanding and displaying that data. These tools and approaches are important
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