The ultimate cheat sheet for staying calm
You’d been angling to get assigned to the special project team at work for a long time. Finally your dream came true. What you weren’t expecting, however, was discovering the team facilitator rubbed you the wrong way, big-time. Maybe it’s a case of opinions and values...
Can leadership and dead cats be used in the same sentence?
You know, if it weren’t so sad, this leadership story would be funny in a sick kind of way. I’ve been wrangling with the local post office for two months over a book I'd purchased that never made it to my mailbox. I have no doubt the book was delivered somewhere; it...
Got your 7C leadership game on?
Want to be a positive leader who embraces possibility with childlike wonder? Who practices inclusion without judgment? Who turns dreams into reality? Who inspires others to do the same? You can if you're willing to put the 7 c's of leadership to work! Before we can...
Lessons from our time of “mad genius”
When Amy Diederich and I started offering elearning, we had a business plan full of charts, models and projections. We’d both come out of Fortune 100 companies so we knew the drill. Former bosses would have been proud how we learned the lessons they taught us. While...
10 things to remember today
Many times in life, love and leadership, the small things are really big things. Sometimes for us, sometimes for others. We get so busy with the busyness of life that we forget to make or take time for the small things. Often, it's those small things that make life...
Address Email Overload, Don’t Eliminate Email
Today’s guest writer is David Grossman, consultant, speaker, author, one of America's foremost authorities on communication inside organizations, and founder and CEO of The Grossman Group, a Chicago-based communications consultancy focusing on organizational...
