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 [...]
Hybrid Meetings: Being a Productive Participant
In our first post on hybrid meetings, we talked about best practices for managing focus when leading meetings with some people in the room and [...]
Hybrid Meetings: Projecting Professionalism
One of the many interesting observations from the pandemic is the evolution of people’s Zoom backgrounds. Initially, everyone was excited to play with the virtual [...]
Earn Trust by Making Your Destination Clear
Do you have that friend or family member who offers you a ride and then doesn’t look at a map or set their GPS app [...]
Hybrid Meetings: Managing the Focal Point
I write this as pandemic restrictions begin to lift, and companies are finalizing plans to return employees to their physical offices. However, one thing the [...]
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 [...]
Three Must-Haves For Running Fruitful Business Meetings
Whenever you’re delivering a presentation or running a meeting, one of your primary responsibilities is to facilitate the discussion that takes place during it. After [...]
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 [...]
The Orderly Conversation Defined
One of the most important things for business communicators to understand is the distinction between a speech and a presentation. They are not the same. [...]