Remarkable and Powerful Leadership lessons From Queen Victoria
What Barry and Queen Victoria recognized was the power of presence. Not necessarily having the answer but being in the trenches working with their teams to find the answers.
Tag: Trust
I Don’t Need to be Right
In my workshops on communication, I often talk about the power of listening. It has the power to influence, it gives us the ability to learn and it allows us to connect and persuade others. I was inspired by a TEDx talk by a Columnist Ronnie Polaneczky. In it, she…
Meetings What are They Good For?
As corporate America realized that with technology they could have people work “remote” they found that they could save in terms of hard costs on real estate and office furniture etc. That they did not realize was the soft cost of going remote. In the past team members would assemble…
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 a guard tower and weeds had overtaken the yard. And this was the corporate office of a major food brand devoted to creating “global…
Communicate With People Not At Them
Talk with people not at them Are you stuck? Are people not engaging or acting in ways you expect? Try connecting with them versus talking at them. The way we communicate has such a powerful impact on the outcomes we experience for ourselves and through others. So let’s leverage that…
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 things done. For some time now I have been observing a trend. People will commit to an action; it could be any number of…
