Connection Doesn’t Take a Vacation
June arrives with a cocktail of out-of-office replies, summer travel plans, and an inbox that’s somehow just as chaotic, but less responsive. If anything, it’s even more jammed, with auto-responses piling up like carry-on luggage at an overbooked gate.
As someone who sends a monthly blog to over 10,000 professionals, I see my fair share of OOO replies. And let me tell you, some of them are anything but boring. These aren’t generic “I’ll be back soon” notes, they’re personality-packed gems I’ve actually received over the years. They made me smile. They made me remember the person behind the title. And…
4 Powerful Question Strategies Smart Communicators Swear By
What truly separates people who consistently get insightful, detailed answers from AI, colleagues, or clients from those who receive only surface level responses? After years…
5 Ways to Be the Leader People Actually Want to Follow Right Now
“Hope is not a strategy.”
You’ve heard it, I’ve heard it, and let’s be real, it’s not wrong. If you’re leading a team, trying to close…
The Power of Progress, Not Perfection
As we embrace a New Year filled with lists, promises, or one-word themes, I need to remind all of us that no matter how hard…
Rethink: 5 Keys to Build Resilience and Results
As 2021 comes to an end, what did you rethink or unlearn over the past couple of years in order to personally and professionally survive…
How Smart Leaders Use Praise That Pays
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”…
5 Ways to Make Hybrid Work, Work with Less Burnout
Make Hybrid Work, Work with Less Burnout
Are we virtual today, in-person, in-person on alternate days, every other week, masked, unmasked, sometimes masked? And, by the…
3 Steps to Become Interconnected in our Disconnected World
“Life is mostly froth and bubbles, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.”
— Emma Burstall, Bestselling Author
Bubbles. They have…
5 Ways to Hold onto Your Employees (P.S. It’s Not What You Think)
There has been a huge shift in the way people are looking at work. I call it “Going from YO-YO to YOLO.”
Most people in corporate…
Judging Too Much? 3 Strategies to Judge Less, Connect More
Please do not judge me for doing this, but I want to tell you an absolutely true story about a judge. She works out at my friend’s gym, and if…
How to Thrive in the Ever-Changing Hybrid Work Model
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” — Gail Sheehy
The pandemic changed our world overnight demanding agility,…