July 22, 2016
Influence: Do You Have the Power?
Influence can come in a variety of forms. From a viral campaign on social media, to a presidential election campaign, to the pleadings of…
Posts tagged with 'communication'
July 12, 2016
#MTtalk: Team Meetings: Do You Help, Hide or Hinder?
Maybe you’re the exception to the rule and you absolutely love meetings, but many of us don’t enjoy them. Some meetings drag on for hours,…
July 8, 2016
Lost for Words? Or Cat Got Your Tongue?
Have you ever found yourself lost for words at a time when you needed them desperately? It’s easy to think that there’s not much “going…
July 5, 2016
Meetings: Do You Help, Hide or Hinder?
Please Join Us! What: #MTtalk Where: Twitter When: Friday, July 8, 2016 @ 1p.m. EST (6p.m. BST)…
June 14, 2016
#MTtalk Team Building: Good, Bad and Ugly!
Politics and team-building events have one thing in common: they have the power to unite or divide people. Team-building events that are badly planned or poorly executed…
May 10, 2016
Your Top Tips For Giving and Receiving Feedback at Work
“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” – Bill Gates, American…
April 29, 2016
Don’t Let a Crisis Become a Catastrophe
The saying “hope for the best, prepare for the worst” has always struck me as supremely sensible advice. Having said that, it’s not advice…
April 25, 2016
How to Give Feedback
Imagine being forever immune to heart attacks and strokes because you take a daily dose of medication. Great! But there’s a little hitch. The medication…
April 5, 2016
Step Off the Sidelines & Get Into the Game!
Ever watch a professional football game on television? The head coach paces back and forth along the sidelines, delivering plays, processing information he receives through…
March 7, 2016
Will They Stay or Will They Go?
What keeps you in your job? It might be the regular paycheck, interesting work, the camaraderie, or maybe a sense that you’re contributing to…
February 5, 2016
It Pays to Look After Customer-Facing Staff
I turn my back on the gray, drizzly high street and stand at the threshold of the store, blinking in the light of a thousand…
February 2, 2016
Don’t!
Don’t! I’ve been fixated on this word for a couple months now. It started when I wrote a blog about the self-promotion that is so…