The holiday season has officially arrived, and with it comes many annual office and professional organization holiday parties. These...

As leaders, we focus a lot on what we say: preparing for meetings, writing the perfect email, or rehearsing for presentations. But the...

Imagine if you worked in an organization where staff members have no idea what other staff members are doing, management has no idea what...

Imagine if you worked in an organization where staff members have no idea what other staff members are doing, management has no idea what...

As someone who has trained leaders for more than 25 years, one of the biggest challenges I see leaders facing is making the transition...

Many people define empathy as the ability to step into someone else's shoes. However as a leader, it's more than that. It is the things...

There's one in every office -- that person whose coffee is always cold, whose commute is longer and worse than everyone elses, who is the...

Yesterday, I was asked by a client to re-run this post from a few years ago. Jack, my Doberman, died in December 2017 at the age of 13....

Back East where I'm from, it's a fall tradition for many families to take an afternoon trip to a local farm to pick out Halloween...

Like many of you, I've spent the past month or so trying to set priorities and goals for 2016 and part of that process was establishing...

Last week, I shared some common mistakes many meeting facilitators make when conducting meetings and I shared tips on how you can avoid...

"Hey, I'm having a meeting this afternoon, do you want to come?" "Yes! HOORAY! Thanks so much for asking!" Said no one ever. Millions of...

If honesty is the best policy, why is so difficult to be truly honest? Here are 5 tips for sharing your truth in a way others can hear it.

Great leaders know that discipline is just one of those things that comes with the job. However, most people who find themselves in...

Technical expertise isn't enough to ensure career success. You must have excellent communication skills to achieve career longevity.

When you accept the title of leader, manager, supervisor, or any other title that puts you in charge of a group of people, you also...

I just completed a 30-day video series called, "Communication Skills for Career Success." Over the 30 days, people who watch the daily...

A few years ago I worked with a man named Martin. He was a condescending know-it-all and I avoided him whenever I could. As soon as I saw...

For many of us, it’s the first word we learn, thus the popularity of baby T-shirts that read, “My name is No No” on the front. We learn...

I woke up feeling happy this morning. Yes, it was partly because my first conscious thought was, "I have the day off  today!" However,...