A crucial but often neglected part of successful business communication is making it easy for your audience to understand what you are communicating. The use...
read moreOnboarding Training: Making New Employees Happy to Be There
If you’re in L&D, a leader, or a subject matter expert (SME), you probably have some responsibility for the onboarding process, and you understand why...
read moreThe Chilling Effect of Icebreakers
Comedian Karen Morgan nailed it with this joke about icebreakers. What she says about an introvert’s reaction to icebreakers (and no doubt most extrovert’s as...
read moreThe Meeting Agenda: Your Trust-Building Contract
We recently had a multi-phase engagement with a client during which we got to know their culture quite well. As is sometimes the case, the...
read moreWhy is meeting facilitation training important?
According to an article on MIT’s human resources blog, over 25 million professional meetings are held every day in the US. That’s a staggering amount...
read moreWhat Is Missing From Your Leadership Development Training?
When we are asked to develop a Leadership Communication training program for a client, it’s almost always because the leadership development training they’ve already invested...
read more16 Signs Your Company Should Invest in Communication Training
We’ve been talking recently about our collective experience with communication challenges in the various places we’ve all worked. One topic that keeps coming up is...
read moreManaging Conflict in Virtual Meetings
This article was inspired by a question posed by a client in a recent virtual workshop. She asked: If you are part of a virtual...
read moreWhat we wish everyone knew about meeting behavior
In previous blogs, I’ve written about the need for meeting facilitators to initiate and manage the conversation that takes place during meetings and about how team presentations...
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