I will guess that at some time we’ve all been in a social group of people when someone decides to play the ‘whisper and pass on the secret’ game and it passes from one person to the next.  Ultimately, after everyone has been the  recipient of the message from the person next to them, the […]

Life at work is so much more effective.  I mean we now have tools that allow us to shoot out messages from our keyboard or phone … messages that we used king there’s no question that today’s methods enable us to deliver messages or gather input in a faster manner and this saves time.  At […]

When coaching an individual in relationship to their job, it’s not unusual to uncover a very real reluctance on the part of that person to confront their own challenges with those to whom they report.  They come to realize that having specific conversations is the pathway to resolution however, anticipating that exchange becomes a wall […]

Regardless of type or size of an organization, one challenge that permeates most, at all levels, is the tendency and willingness of people to move forward on a project, in their overall job or simply general conversation based on what they understood.  We often just assume that we ‘get it’ and don’t need to or […]

I imagine all of us have experienced going into a meeting wherein at least one in attendance seemed determined to sell her/his idea to the group even if that required quieting other voices, opinions or thoughts.  In fact that is just     how they succeed … no listening, just selling.  Such meetings often become a debate […]