Cross-Selling Made Easy
As everyone returns from summer vacations and refocuses on business, there’s usually a renewed energy put toward business development. Particularly in Q4, firms look to develop a strategic plan for […]
Author: krodriguez
Thinking Critically – Through the Election and Throughout Every Day
As the election approaches, we’ll be inundated with ads and messages about a wide array of important topics. Effective democracy requires engagement by all of us. But we’re all busy […]
How Your Passion Drives Your Executive Presence
When experienced professionals share complex ideas in meetings or in formal presentations, their delivery can, on occasion, be flat and matter-of-fact. Sometimes it’s because they have heard their own message […]
Mindfulness Made Easy
We are all better communicators when we focus less on ourselves and more on other people, always asking ourselves, “Why is this person reading my email?” “Why are they attending […]
How To Make Your Presentation Sound More Like A Conversation
The main difference between strong, confident speakers and speakers who seem nervous in front of the room is in how relaxed and conversational they appear. Here are some basic pointers […]
Becoming a More Nimble Leader
When Bob Dylan wrote The Times They Are A-Changin’ in 1963, he chose a tempo that seems quaint and measured today, but is in keeping with his folk genre. If he wrote […]
To Increase Your Impact, Think From Your Audience’s Perspective
The next time you have to share an update at a meeting, give an important presentation, or deliver a speech in front of large audience, you’ll have more impact if […]
Improve Your Critical Thinking By Avoiding Assumptions
In an article earlier this month, I shared three questions we can ask ourselves in the moment to avoid allowing our snap decision about someone’s idea hardening into a firm […]
Replacing “No” with “Whoa.”: Three Questions to Help Us Avoid Making Assumptions
Being human, we are prone to two behaviors that impact our ability to both think critically and communicate effectively. First, we tend to make assumptions about other people’s comments and […]