3 Components of Chaotic Leadership Capable leaders guide teams through chaos. Incompetent leaders create it. In times of change and crisis, strong leaders provide stability by cultivating the three elements of trust: credibility, authenticity, and empathy. With...
How to Ask for What You Want Asking for what you want is an essential life skill that yields enormous positive benefits (e.g., the thing you want!). But like so many other life skills—budgeting, doing laundry, cooking breakfast, driving in snow—no one teaches...
How to Fix Passive-Aggressive Communication Direct, affirmative communication promotes peace and power. Passive-aggressive communication kills both. When you want something from someone, expect resistance, and then try to circumvent it by going covert with your...
How to Think on Your Feet You’ve got eight seconds. Something unexpected pops up: a last-minute client request, a surprising question from your audience, a technical glitch with your presentation files… According to author Robin Rose, you have eight seconds...
3 Steps to Handling Anxiety in Others Anxiety is contagious. How you handle it matters. Anxiety disorders are the #1 most common mental health condition in the US. They affect almost 20% of the population… so if it’s not you, just look around—someone you work...
