You enter the meeting like a Ninja warrior. You are prepped, pumped and powerful. This time, you’ll really knock their socks off…. They have to sign on to this idea…it’s a no-brainer solution! You do the sales pitch of a…
5 Ways to Get Your Colleague (You Know the One) into Presentation Training
He’s your content expert ….. and his personality disappears in presentations. She’s the smartest engineer on your team…and her body language radiates hostility in public settings…. Or, perhaps he’s the star IT techie so sure of himself in front of…
What’s one thing we really CAN fix?
Amy Chen’s intriguing LinkedIn question seems simple on the surface: (If you could change one thing, what would it be? #FixIt) But how do you choose from the tsunami of possibilities? Here’s one behavioral issue that may underlie a host…
Three Ideas to Get Your Group Unstuck
So your group needs to make a decision and here they are at the same impasse that has derailed the process before. Time to do something different. Three strategies you can employ right now: 1. Change the context to get…
Group Soup: Getting closer to Umami with just the right diversity of “ingredients”
I’m excited about my third round as facilitator in a University training for Search Committees – those charged with hiring teaching faculty in this fairly large university campus. I have already done two highly praised facilitations and now I have…
Consensus Wins the Game
I’ll admit it right up front – I’m conflict avoidant. I’m often the peacemaker in the group, and a great collaborator, with a truck full of “people skills”. I’m patient to a fault. But what I gain in “niceness” by…
Voice Power: The Asset You Don’t Think About
We are such a visual culture: videogames, television, movies, i-Everything. It’s easy to lose connection with other parts of our experience, because we aren’t focused on what we hear, but on what we see. This has given rise to the…