We're no longer "going remote" or "transitioning to online." It has already happened. If you're going to be leading online meetings, learning sessions, webinars, programs--whatever you call them--you need to develop special skills to keep people engaged...

A friend asked me to sit in on a staff meeting a few months ago. "How do you stand that?" I asked him later. "It was like a class where no one looks at the professor." Eye contact was almost nonexistent. One person was doing something on his laptop; the other nine people...

It has been estimated that executives can be in meetings for up to 23 hours per week on average. And business owners can spend more than that in a given week. That's a lot of meetings, and if done improperly, it's a lot of wasted time and missed opportunities. As a business owner...

The option for remote work is growing in popularity: it’s estimated that 3.9 million Americans work remotely, and that number is expected to continue to rise to...

How many meetings have you attended this week? This month? If you are like most business owners, the answer is too many. In my own business coaching firm, I sat down and crunched the numbers on our bimonthly executive meeting, and the results were eye-opening.  Every two weeks...

Longtime presentation expert and Microsoft PowerPoint MVP will show you how to properly approach your next PowerPoint presentation and design slides that use far fewer words, more effective graphics and ultimately communicate better with your audiences.

One-on-one meeting agenda app, Soapbox, recently surveyed over 200 managers to learn how they conduct one-on-one meetings with their teams.  Turns out, regardless of seniority, role or department, there were many common threads around how these managers approached one-on-one meetings. Here’s a brief breakdown of some of the key findings...

When we lead classes in making virtual meetings run more efficiently, the first question we always get is: “How can we get them to start on time?” The bad news is that there’s no silver bullet that will solve the problem. The good news is...

There's a problem that involves all of us. We're all part of it and we're all guilty of contributing to billions (with a B) of easily-avoidable waste. Yet very little is ever done about it. Don't worry, I'm not going to get all tree-huggy with you (although...

From push-ups and power poses to meditation or even medication, there’s no shortage of advice aimed at nervous public speakers. But the best coping strategy may be less complicated than any of that. After coaching hundreds of speakers over the past 20 years...

When it comes time to present annual numbers or important updates at your company, you want to guarantee it goes swimmingly.  But you know nothing’s foolproof.

When you press your cold hands around a warm cup of coffee in the morning? The steam wafts up, and you breathe in the roasty scent that reminds you everything’s going to be okay. Or perhaps it’s Diet Coke that gets you through the day. You have a similar moment when you hear the crisp sound of carbonation escaping the top of the can, making you salivate with the promise of a clear head and a checked-off list of to-dos. Whatever your pleasure, that tall drink of help got you through some pretty rough days, and you can’t imagine your life without it. You may even feel a sense of obligation because you’ve been together so long. Even if you have thought a time or two that you may kick the caffeine habit someday. Haven’t we all?

Grab your slate chalkboard and jot this down: “The old performance management model is dead.” But of course you don’t own a slate chalkboard, because its time has come and gone. And just as it no longer makes sense to use an antiquated method to take notes...