There are a few reasons that performance reviews are important to both the employee/team member and the organization. They provide valuable feedback on how their performance is seen by managers to whom they report. They provide guidance to the employee as to how and what they can do to improve performance and thus, become more Read More

Effective communication within the workplace has always presented a challenge to accomplishing the task at hand when doing so requires the efforts of more than one person.  I have addressed this issue previously through the several years I have been blogging based on my experience in working with people in various organizations and at various Read More

Following the negotiations taking place in Washington D.C. for the past several weeks many with whom I work have been curious to understand what a good negotiation looks like.  In particular they have become interested in what makes for the most successful style and approach in terms of reaching an agreement that they see as Read More

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 Read More