How to Prevent Burnout when Working From Home
Working more hours yet have less time to get our work done. On calls, Zoom, or Teams all day. Rear end feels welded to the …
communication
What’s Truly True?
Albert Einstein, on being congratulated that an experiment had confirmed a prediction in his theories of relativity, said, “No amount of experimentation will ever prove …
Overcommunicate the Vision
If they don’t hear it from us day in and day out, how will our teams ever be able to navigate the constant craziness of …
Getting People Ready to Listen
Having difficulty getting others to see your point of view? Start by demonstrating that you understand theirs. Having difficulty demonstrating that you understand their point …
Tell, Tell, Tell, Yell!
Tell, tell, tell, yell. (To which we all respond with hide, fight, complain, and deflect.) Easy but not so effective, is it? What does work? …
Getting Others to See It Your Way
To get others to see things our way, we can try being louder, more energetic, more logical, more polite, or more correct. Or (and this …
How to Communicate Through A Very Narrow Pipe
Language is a very narrow pipe. Depending on the mindset of our listener, what we say can come across a little or a lot differently …
Present Present
Presence is simply staying focused on what’s happening now instead of worrying about the future, regretting the past, defending ourselves (“Here’s why I am justified…”), …
Fundamental Attribution Hearing
Reasons people don’t listen: Our approach feels bad to them. They don’t see how what we have to say connects to what they care about …
When to Double Up on Communication
When we as leaders fail to overcommunicate our intent, goals, progress, values, issues, and dreams, we leave a giant void that others are left to …