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You’re Going to Exit Your Business. The Only Question Is How.

This year, My Sister lost her accountant of 25 years. He died suddenly with no succession plan. She had to scramble. It got me thinking: You ...

Personal Development

Why You can’t always get what you want…

Every year, billions of people decide to start the New Year off in a different way. Maybe they will quit smoking? Perhaps they will choose to ...

Leadership / Management

Why Most Founders Never Escape the Job They have Created

In 2023, there were 5.5 million new small businesses launched, according to the US Chamber of Commerce. Most of them will fail because the owner cannot ...

Communication

Being Human in Business Even When Everything is Changing

I write a lot here about the craft of creating and succeeding in business. I deliberately use the word craft because building a business is ...

Sales

But You Don’t Want to Change

There is a brighter future ahead for all of us. It requires that we get out of our comfort zone to pursue it. Sometimes that means an extra hour a day. Sometimes it means having a difficult conversation with a long-time employee, who you like, but that needs to step it up.

Leadership

Get the Results you Want Through Influence and Impact

Clients often ask, “How can I wield more influence?” Or, “How can I create a bigger impact?” Personal Presence is hard to define and yet when ...

Management

A Powerful Way to Improve Your Teams with Continuous Development

As leaders, we want our teams to be tip-top with skill sets and mindsets. That requires an investment, at least of time. In some cases, money. ...

Communication

The most important Conversation: the one you have with yourself

When I was young I ran with the wrong crowd. A job transfer for my dad allowed me to narrowly miss being sent to a military ...

Sales

You Hate Networking, Here’s How to Make it Work For You

For many people, going to a networking event is painful. In part because it sometimes feels like people are just handing out cards, looking for a ...

Leadership

Why Not Just Call It Presence?

Clients often ask me about developing Executive Presence, Leadership Presence, or Command Presence. Why not just call it presence? What is it? How do we develop ...

Management

That Difficult Conversation – How to have a Feedback Conversation

I often hear from client managers that feedback is difficult because employees don’t want to hear it. And I hear from team members that they don’t ...

Leadership

Who Wants a Disengaged Employee?

In 2017 Gallup reported that 70% of the US workforce is unengaged! That is a 3 point jump over 2015. How does that happen? I hear ...

Personal Development

Why Are We So Afraid?!!!

I am fascinated by the effect communications has on our ability to perform and thrive. Then, over the weekend, I had the same insight delivered ...

Communication

Listening: What is it good for…

Listening is a key component of good communications and because we are hearing what others are saying, we “assume” we are listening. There is a difference ...

Business Culture

You Say You Want a Promotion? Can you communicate?

I just returned from a workshop where the trainer had people list out on sticky-notes the characteristics of someone that really made a dramatic impact on ...

Communication

Five Communication Secrets of Great Connectors

You know them. They are the people you meet and when, the meeting is over you feel better for the conversation. You want more. What is ...

Business Culture

Better Feedback

Common complaints from managers I work with are, “my employees are not engaged, they are not adopting the new system, they are not stretching out of ...

Personal Development

Can Emotion Be Influential?

I was delivering a workshop recently when one of the participants wanted to be heard. He wanted to acknowledge the role that emotion and feelings play ...

Communication

What you say vs. What you do

I was struck by this article by Doug Conant and Stephen MR Covey that described a building surrounded by a fence and razor wire. This had ...

Communication

Is He Lying?

I don’t know about you but I work in an interdependent world; A world where I rely on others and they rely on me to get ...

Communication

What you say vs. what you communicate

Interesting distinction can you see it? All too often we say what we think others want to hear. Sometimes to avoid confrontation, sometimes to pursue, and ...

Leadership

A way to create more trust

You can Create Trust within your team

Leadership

Positive Connections and Productivity

I recently read, “Are You Fully Charged”, by Tom Rath. I am struck by the data that shows how important our interactions are to our productivity ...

Business Culture

Get out of the way

While lunch with a friend recently, she was telling me that she felt she could not be authentic in some negotiations because the other party was “bound” by ...