Communication
28 posts
Stop Rambling in Meetings — and Start Getting Your Message Across
While it’s important to share your point of view in meetings, it’s critical to know when and how. You don’t want to monopolize the conversation. In this piece, the author…
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3 Questions Investors Ask Themselves When Evaluating a CEO
Market volatility is back. Corporate valuations are under the microscope. Today’s leaders need to demonstrate they can manage through uncertainty and remain agile in the face of one black swan…
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What the Best Presenters Do Differently
According to Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, villagers would come from far and wide to hear Abraham Lincoln, then a prairie lawyer with a gift for storytelling. Lincoln didn’t…
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Stop Wasting People’s Time with Meetings
Meetings provide a platform for people to investigate issues, explore new avenues, and agree on actions. They’re also an opportunity to highlight leadership skills, interests, and managerial styles. However, many…
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How to Get People to Speak Up in Virtual Meetings
There’s no question that virtual meetings have made workplace communications easier. Not only are virtual meetings easier to arrange and attend (just count how many more Zoom meetings you have…
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How to Interrupt Someone’s Workday — Without Annoying Them
Interruptions are a fact of life — but do they have to be unpleasant? A recent study found that 31% of workplace interruptions are actually experienced positively, and offers six…
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Life’s Work: An Interview with Sarah Cooper
Before Sarah Cooper satirized President Donald Trump with her TikTok lip-synchs of him, she was parodying the corporate world from her perch as a designer and manager at Google. After…
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Please Stop Using These Phrases in Meetings
Some New Year’s resolutions are more attainable than others. Even at a time when so much is beyond our control, we remain in control of our own speech patterns. And…
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When People Assume You’re Not In Charge Because You’re a Woman
Role incredulity is a form of gender bias where women are mistakenly assumed to be in a support or stereotypically female role — an administrative assistant, nurse, wife, or girlfriend,…
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How to Up Your Webinar Game – SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CVENT
How to Up Your Webinar Game Webinars have long been a staple of an effective demand-generation engine. They facilitate live communication with your ideal customer persona at scale—as well as…
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