Archive for 'Communication'

Have you ever had to work with someone whose negative and difficult personality impacted productivity and caused additional stress? Here’s a strategy to turnaround destructive behavior and a caustic attitude to make a toxic person a model employee. Have you ever found yourself in this situation? “Their negativity rubs off on the rest of the …

If communication is the foundation for all successful relationships, then why do we struggle with creating rewarding, supportive relationships that foster alignment around shared goals, especially with the people we rely on to achieve greater personal and organizational success? Shoot the Messenger Did you ever cut someone off when speaking to them just to get …

  It’s not always the responsibility of the manager to run a successful meeting. Lead the meeting with questions in order to avoid monotony and tap into each person’s experience, knowledge, collaboration and creativity so that you can create breakthrough results. Lead with Questions, Not Answers Weekly, monthly or quarterly meetings can get stale quickly. …

Your salespeople may have their goals, but is there alignment, buy-in, self-accountability and clarity around their goals? Are you 100% confident that your sales team possesses the skills, attitude, knowledge, commitment, coachability and strategy needed to achieve them? Here’s the conversation that creates this. This isn’t just about setting the right goals. It’s about the …

To make meetings more productive so they’re less of a monologue and more of a dialogue, facilitate meetings through others to drive innovation and growth. Here are 5 steps to get your team to run constructive, engaging meetings. Reinvigorating the Redundant Meeting Managers, as well as many other people who have to get in front …

There’s a difference between facilitating a conversation and managing a meeting from a soapbox. When managers stand on their soapbox, the consequences of preaching are severe, since they’re the only one participating in the meeting. Here’s how to avoid the stale, monotonous meetings and reinvigorate ones that create the engagement, buy-in, alignment and accountability you …

Here’s how to become a powerful, executive level communicator and eliminate confrontation—permanently. “I want to work on improving my communication, especially with my peers, boss, sales team, and my customers. I find it challenging to talk with some people or have those difficult conversations, based on their personality or my experience with them.” An insightful …

How often do you and your salespeople use email throughout your sales process? Learn how to avoid hiring salespeople with the writing acumen of a five-year-old. The day starts like any other day. You open your inbox to check your emails. Maybe it’s from your boss or from the CEO of the company. Maybe it’s …