How To Get Home Field Advantage In Life
Lauren E Miller, International motivational Speaker and Author, Grab and Go Stress Solutions, LLC
How Can You Communicate With More Presence?
Jeff Kavanaugh, Senior Partner, Infosys
Experiencing Technical Distractions?
Stacey Hanke, Founder and communication expert, Stacey Hanke Inc.
Playing The Right Chords
Dr. Michael Brenner, Founder and President, Right Chord Leadership
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Being happy at work and loving what you do gives you more satisfaction than having a fat paycheck. However, sometimes you find yourself unhappy or miserable. What could be the reasons? Are there any solutions? In this issue, we have handpicked a bunch of articles that can help you make your work and personal life more colourful and active.
Joan was sitting at a round table when a hand descended over her right shoulder and slapped a piece of paper down on the wooden surface. A permission slip lay before her. Joan wondered, “Why do I need a permission slip?” She glanced up at her colleague, Cheryl, who said, “It’s a permission slip. You’ve been thinking about honing your presentation skills for decades. Why haven’t you?”
Can you imagine waking up and going to work each day knowing you have home field advantage when it comes to a potential win for your day? Whatever you shine the light of your awareness on in life expands or contracts depending upon the frame you place it in. Do you play more "away games" or home games in your life?
Everyone wants to have presence. It implies significance. We listen to people with presence. We value their opinions. Yet, we rarely think of presence as a skill we can cultivate. We tend to think that the people who we experience as charismatic have always been that way. Some may be exceptionally gifted, but it’s just as likely that they’ve worked consciously to develop their presence. This short article will offer some ways you can emulate them.
Have you ever thought about how many emails and texts you send each day or how those messages impact your influence? Each one is an opportunity to stand out from the crowd and grow your influence. Each one is also an opportunity to be misinterpreted, to damage your reputation and to negate your influence.
One of the things being a professional musician for over 30 years has taught me is the importance of accountability. I realize that when we think of accountable people, the first examples that pop into mind may not be musicians. If you’re a rock fan, you’re no doubt familiar with legendary tales of debauchery and mischief from the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Who, and Guns N’ Roses.
Politics, along with sex and religion, has long been a taboo workplace topic, but there is no denying that it rears its head. It’s hard to know where to draw the line when it comes to this sticky subject, especially in a time of great divide in our country. In our book Beyond Resistance: Coping with the Stress of the Trump Era, we write that, in this country, we have come to a place beyond disagreement
Sandra was introduced to me as a highly successful business professional with exceptional leadership skills. She was being groomed for a top executive position, and she sounded perfect for my favorite kind of coaching assignment. I love working with accomplished women who are looking to become even more effective.
Whether you are communicating with someone face-to-face, over the telephone, or via email, text, or instant messaging, if your communication styles do not match one another, you might be headed towards problems. Considering email communications in particular, corresponding parties can misunderstand each other in many ways. To understand why, let’s review some basic email communication response techniques: