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Should You Write with Gen AI?
December 10th 2024
Generative AI can make business writing faster and easier, but it can also introduce errors and flatten your individual voice. The answer is not necessarily whether to use it, but how. Read more...
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A Simple Way to Communicate More Effectively
December 1st 2024
Clear communication is not always about finding better words. Often, it is about giving your message a structure that makes it easier for people to understand, remember and act upon. In his Harvard
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The Best Public Speakers Put Their Audience First
December 13th 2022
Exceptional public speaking is about more than delivering a polished introduction, maintaining eye contact or appearing confident on stage. The most effective speakers focus on what their audience
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The secret to a Good Meeting? Preparation!
June 27th 2023
Productive meetings rarely happen by accident. The quality of the conversation, decisions and outcomes often depends on the preparation completed before anyone enters the room. Read more... Meetings
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Stop Talking Over Each Other in Virtual Meetings
February 26th 2021
As companies of all sizes grapple with how and when to return to a physical office, it's clear that virtual meetings are here to stay, with all the challenges and pet peeves that come with them. As
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Why your meetings stink, and what to do about it
November 10th 2020
Dave, a senior VP at a large U.S. bank, was a strong one-on-one manager. However, 360-degree feedback revealed that he struggled in one critical area: leading effective meetings. Multiple employees
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What it takes to run a great virtual meeting
September 26th 2020
As companies scramble to protect employees from the spreading coronavirus with travel restrictions and remote work arrangements, there's a distinct possibility that in-person meetings with teams,
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How to Write a Cover Letter
May 18th 2020
No one likes job hunting. Scouring through online jobs boards, spiffing up your résumé, prepping for grueling interviews — none of it's fun. But perhaps the most challenging part of the process
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Maintaining Eye Contact While Talking Overwhelms the Brain
March 23rd 2020
To humans, eye contact is everything. From infancy onward, humans look to the gaze of others to try to gauge their emotions and thereby determine what those emotions say about their relationship.
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How to explain anything to anyone: 4 steps to clearer communication
January 20th 2020
"Have you ever had this experience?" asks physicist Dominic Walliman in a TEDxEastVan Talk. "You're having a chat with someone, and they're telling you something about a subject they're very interest
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Why Do We Gesture When We Talk?
November 6th 2019
We all know people who talk with their hands. Turns out there's quite a bit of research around the relationship between language and
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Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders
July 30th 2019
good leaders communicate effectively because they do three specific things well in an ongoing cycle which gets progressively more focused and more targeted over
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Tell To Win
June 5th 2019
Article by Peter Guber: For Peter Guber, what began as a knack for telling stories as one of the world's leading entertainment executives has evolved into a set of principles that anyone can use to
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Know What Your Customers Want Before They Do
April 30th 2019
Article by Thomas H. Davenport, Leandro Dalle Mule, and John Lucker: Retailers need to target customers with the right deal at the right time, here's how to nail the "next best
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