At the beginning of each day, ask yourself these two questions to create more value for colleagues and clients. First, how do you create value during each meeting and customer touchpoint: written, verbally, visually, and experientially? Second, how dependent are you on professional jargon to communicate your professional value to others? If you target creating… [Continue Reading]
Create More Value by Speaking Less Professional Jargon
Are There Still Elephants in Your Virtual Workplace Rooms?
Your virtual workplace rooms are interesting spaces, aren’t they? And these collaboration spaces are not going away any time soon. As we move forward through 2021, together, eventually we will have hybridized workplace opportunities. However, will you be dragging the elephants in your virtual workplace rooms back into these physical or hybridized settings? Because those… [Continue Reading]
Are You Managing Teams for Innovation or Stasis?
When you are managing teams for innovation, everyone focuses on creating better and better solutions. Otherwise, you reinforce stasis, or reliance on whatever worked yesterday. The concept and execution of managing for innovation is a hot topic in my keynotes, workshops and coaching. First, by focusing on innovation you and your team create outcomes which… [Continue Reading]
Very Compelling Storytelling embraces Risk and Opportunity
Moving your stories into the Very Compelling Storytelling category is a scary proposition, isn’t it? Sort of like standing in rush-hour traffic during a polar vortex. Very compelling storytelling moves you the biggest one millimeter beyond your storytelling comfort level as you can move. Because the most compelling stories are about how you embrace both… [Continue Reading]
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