Work on Your Weaknesses...Sometimes.

When reading the title of this article, there is no doubt that it sparked either an emotion or a name of that person we should be having a difficult conversation with. It is likely our reaction was [...]

We all have so much to do. I don’t know a single person who isn’t “busy”. Yet, every time I go to a networking event, I see people unknowingly wasting their precious time. To put it bluntly, I see [...]

I recently had the privilege of attending some Workforce Roundtables at the Missouri Career Center. These roundtables involve groups of employers from different industries talking about their [...]

Most of us want to be viewed as an effective communicator, and a majority of us believe that we are. Effective communication requires listening, clear language, and the ability to ask good questions. [...]

Management is hard. It's a daily and intentional effort needed to keep the people machine running effectively. While we seek to do our jobs flawlessly, our biggest opportunity is to learn from our [...]

It is not uncommon that a lot of our biggest pain points for ourselves and our companies exist when there is so much chaos in our environment and we are not always sure where it is coming from. We [...]

Words are impactful. The tone, flow, and perception are major influences in the workplace. Words can motivate and encourage, or they can make people feel powerless and disengaged. There are a lot of [...]

Facilitation means 'to make easy', but most of the time, facilitating meetings and conversations feel like a daunting task. It can be intimidating to be expected to have all of the answers, capture [...]

Good and bad go together. When the ship was invented, so was the shipwreck. When we learned to ride a bicycle, we also learned how to fall off of it. Failure and success come as a package.