As leaders, it's our responsibility to communicate proactively. Each instance of communication we provide for our team helps fill in their gaps, frame anxiet...

Here's a few tips to leaving a meeting well: Schedule meetings back-to-back. If one meeting looks to runs long, you simply say, "my next meeting starts in 10...

The most important step in project management is defining the problem. Time spent ensuring you've addressing the real issue is always time well spent. Here's...

Rejection sucks. But not getting the feedback you need to improve is worse. Having a sales proposal turned down is painful for two reasons: 1) You've put tim...

"This job would be easy if it weren't for the people." "Employees don't care. I have to watch them closely the entire time." "How is this not common sense to...

3 questions to fuel forward momentum

"And what else?" Almost every good thing starts with curiosity. The ability to ask a question and genuinely listen to the answer is the gateway towards impro...

You've determined to use meetings as a chance to make an impact, you've invited the right people, you've communicated the agenda, you've got your headspace r...

One sign of organizational health is constructive conflict in your meetings. The fact that someone cares enough to make a ruckus about an issue means they ac...

You've determined to use meetings as a chance to make in impact, you've invited the right people, you've communicated the agenda, you've got your headspace r...

One of the biggest frustrations in organizational life is the meeting that overruns its allotted time. It inhibits your colleagues’ capacity to plan anything...

Leading well in a meeting is one of the strongest ways to communicate value to the organization and show expertise to your colleagues. And one of the key ste...

How you conduct yourself in meetings is a force multiplier on your status in the organization

Drucker said that the large organization is the pinnacle of human society. And the meeting is the primary mechanism by which the organization capitalizes on ...

I always considered myself helpful and available to my team, until I asked them if they thought I was. Long pauses, averted eyes, and pained smiles met me. I...

How do you get the feedback you need to lead more effectively? How can you get your directs to surface the issues that are important to them? Focus on the sp...