Returning to the Office: the importance of Emotional Intelligence in meetings
A recent article at trainingindustry.com has us thinking about the importance of emotional intelligence, or EQ, as US businesses start to return to in-person work. [...]
Leadership That Fosters Successful Hybrid Meetings
In other blog posts, we’ve been talking about hybrid meetings: how to lead them successfully, how to practice good participation behaviors, and even how to [...]
Business Success Depends on Soft Skills
Over the last several decades, our economy has shifted from one with lots of rote work, whether blue-collar or white-collar, to one in which routine [...]
Leading Remote Teams During Challenging Times
I am writing this article on March 10, 2020. If your organization is like many others, you’re worried about the spread of Coronavirus and what [...]
Communication is an Essential Leadership Skill
Praise for All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence There is no doubt that communication is a skill that must [...]
Is Nervousness Limiting Your Career?
For some business presenters, nervousness is a temporary condition. When they’ve moved past the first few minutes, their nerves seem to float away. For other [...]
4 Ways to Progress from a Trainer to a ‘Thinking Coach’
If you are a trainer or a SME who delivers training, one of your major responsibilities, and possibly one of your major challenges, is knowing [...]
8 Tried-and-True Steps to Building Trust
When we wrote about Turpin’s culture in the fall of 2016, we had no idea who it might lead us to. As friends do, they lead you [...]
Communicate Like a Leader
Communication is an Essential Leadership Skill I recently watched a TED talk by Simon Sinek called “Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe.” His talk [...]
TRUST: It’s Yours to Lose
Earlier this week, I was coaching a senior executive on a very high-stakes presentation. He told me he wanted to be perceived as trustworthy. Setting [...]