How to use your voice more effectively: 4 Critical strategies
To get a job or start a business you probably spend a lot of time perfecting your resume, personal description of strengths, your handshake and your pitch. You likely had a professional head shot taken for your website, or put effort into creating one that would make...
“Why don’t they do things my way?” Practical strategies to deal with the emotions of cultural clash
The non-neutrality of culture Culture is not neutral. When any group of people starts spending time in the same place, over time they develop norms of behaviour. Some of those norms are helpful, healthy, creative and show interesting ways to see the world, take...
5 Disastrously common meeting presentation mistakes & what you can learn from them
For many of us, just the mention of the word “meeting” makes us roll our eyes and groan. We’ve all had the misfortune of sitting through yet another bad presentation and have cursed the heavens for losing an hour (or longer) of our lives to boredom and frustration....
7 Barriers to communication and a lesson from YouTube
7 Barriers to communication and a lesson from YouTube Barriers to communication can be removed! Ask employees in any workplace what the company’s biggest internal problem is and the majority will say without hesitation, “communication,” (insert eye rolling and...
Why you can’t afford to have poor communication in your business or organization
We start with a story… There was a young man driving his car home on the expressway one evening, when he heard a loud bang and felt his left rear tire blow out. He pulled the car over on the shoulder of the expressway, got out, and saw that he had a flat tire....
