Many different takes on the structure of communication highlight the importance of listening: listening is half of communicating, listen twice as much as you...

We are in an unprecedented time, with huge numbers of people working from home now, and teams split up, many for the first time, in order to socially distanc...

I was speaking with a fellow professional coach type just last week about what has changed in career development in the last decade and what they see the cur...

I wrote a book, and you can find it on Amazon right now, in Kindle and Paperback formats! Not only that, but somehow it is a #1 New Release in its Kindle for...

I am heading to a conference this week up in Durham, NC for Duke Women Alumni. I love this conference -- I've been before and it is exciting to see what my ...

Albert Einstein is a name we all know, even if we don't all understand his physics theories (I know I am not fully versed in them!). He is also a good remind...

I had two different conversations with people just this morning about out-of-town job searching, and another conversation on networking in general, so I want...

This is the time of year when I get a number of people reaching out -- December and January are a hot time for career coaches and leadership consultants. Th...

The finale of Season 2 of the Masked Singer was last night, and I have to admit I was hooked all season. I knew a few weeks back that the Rottweiler was Chri...

I've spent some of the last couple days working through my end-of-the-year things, thinking through what worked this year, what didn't work this year, what I...

Where are you right now? What are you doing? What's important to you? What do you want to achieve? This interview is amazing (though, note: NSFW language),...

When you say the name, "Leonardo Da Vinci," many things may come to mind for people -- the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, generally exquisite painting skills, a...

While sometimes trying to "get the last word in" could be considered a negative, let's twist it a bit and make it a reminder to follow-up and close out conve...

There is, inevitably, a lot of grunt work involved in running the many pieces of complicated jobs (and lots of uncomplicated ones, too, actually, if we are b...

Many successful people, when they look backward at their career and reflect on some of their first jobs, mention that they ended up doing something they neve...

I've been brought in to a few different businesses to review, streamline, "clean-up", and redesign administrative processes, and though all of the processes ...

I was the most skeptical person in our Improv 101 class. I had just finished law school, which is a whole lot of learning to think in boxes, and this instru...

When I started in contract negotiation, I found that I was immediately balancing multiple priorities -- document precision, the interests of my party / my si...

There was a discussion today at a conference I was at about the difficulty of keep track of your time when you bill by the time increment. I strongly recomm...

I had the pleasure of attending the 2019 Applied Improv Network International Conference in Stony Brook, New York last month. I attended my first AIN Confer...