How Good Leaders Handle Stress When I think back over all the dinner parties, showers, church gatherings and various events I’ve hosted over the years, one stands out as a complete and total disaster: Turkey Day in May. Several years ago, after eight months of...
Power Poses: Science or Snake Oil? Have you heard of “power poses”? Between Amy Cuddy’s TED talk (one of the top 20 viewed TED talks of all time), her book called Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, numerous parodies and all the...
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YOUR GUIDE TO CATS & DOGS One of my favorite workshops to present is on how to talk to cats and dogs. No, I haven’t turned into Dr. Doolittle. In this workshop, I use the analogy of cats and dogs to figure out how to gauge a person’s communication needs in the...
Two Ways to Increase Your Receptivity Recently, I had two different coaching clients coming for sessions on exactly the same communication issue. Though the material was the same between the two, the sessions varied wildly. One client’s sessions were full of...
4 Steps to Claiming Space Your space bubble is too small. That too-small bubble is holding you back, turning people away from you, and leading to missed opportunities and connection. I don’t mean your personal space bubble. That one is supposed to be small. It...