Organizations these days face limited resources and numerous external challenges, yet the demand to achieve full capacity remains constant. More than twenty years in business with employees tells me the key to achieving full capacity is to build and continuously nurture an Honest Communication Success Culture (HCSC) because such a culture makes all the difference to innovation, efficiency, and […]
ADVICE. It’s everywhere. Magazine covers. Morning news broadcasts. E-mail forwards. It seems everyone has some advice to give, and most of us must be looking for it, because self-help books continue to sell and those morning shows keep booking guests who offer life direction in perfect sound bites. Recently I started thinking about some of
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All you have to do is turn on the news to see how a lack of honest communication is affecting the workplace as well as everyday relationships we have with one another. In fact, it seems these problems are very common. Therefore, honest, effective communication is even more critical to teamwork, productivity, and profitability and
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Spooked Beware of the Halloween Principle Are there life principles that you used to live by, but now you don’t? Have you ever allowed someone to spook you to such an extent that you change your behavior? It’s natural to let someone’s bad reaction derail us from doing what we know needs to be done.
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How To Effectively Give Presentations Every Time Through Honesty Fingernails on a black board. Visits to the dentist. Filing taxes. These activities could not be preferred to anything – except, possibly, speaking in public. Most people really hate public speaking – and often devise complex strategies to avoid it. Unfortunately, despite the expansion of communication
How to Cure Them and Boost Performance, Productivity and Profitability While working with thousands of private- and public-sector executives and managers over the past 15 years on how to increase cooperation, innovation and productivity in their workplace, I uncovered problems plaguing their organizations that stem from an undiagnosed condition … common to all … that
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How a Simple Shift in Understanding Can Improve Decision-Making and Positively Affect the Bottom Line If only I had known. It’s a terrible thought most of us have had at one point—usually when we have discovered a big problem that started out small. The good news is most problems really do start out small. The
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Are you where you thought you would be as the New Year begins? Have you put off changes that you need to make? Are there people zapping your energy and robbing you of what you could achieve? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, here are 9 crucial actions that can help
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Chapter 18 from Steven’s book, Honesty Works! DURING THE COURSE of each day without even realizing it, we train and condition people how to respond to us. Unfortunately, we often encourage individuals to act in ways that we did not intend, failing to recognize the messages that we send through our own actions. How are
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Chapter 6 from Steven’s book, Honesty Works! HAVE YOU HEARD someone complain about the same thing so often that you can predict exactly what they are going to say? It may seem as if they would rather complain than find a solution. That may be true for some, but many complainers really do want to
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