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Asking for Help Can Reduce Tension
Tension can crop up anywhere—especially when your company culture is made up of people with diverse backgrounds, viewpoints and experience levels. You can choose to avoid that tension, surrounding ...
Learn How to ‘Think Fast and Talk Smart’
Learning to be comfortable with spontaneous speaking is a necessity in the workplace, whether you're being called upon to introduce someone, deliver feedback to your boss or handle the Q&A ...
How to Keep Your Conversations on Track and Productive
Keeping business conversations on track and productive can be difficult, especially when we view our conversational partners as opponents. We end up wasting our time and effort while producing ...
Why Managers Become Jerks
One of the main reasons people leave their companies is their manager. They can't stand working for a boss who is cruel, rude or small-minded—in other words, a jerk. These managers likely earned ...
Tips for Avoiding Email Abuse
Email and other messaging tools make it too easy to abuse communication, pushing us to talk even when we have nothing of substance to say, writes Tomas Kucera, VP of Business Operations at ...
Don’t Let Emotions Control the Conversation, Exec Coach Says
Effective communication is an important part of any manager's toolkit. But how can you have a productive conversation when emotions begin to escalate? You first need to diffuse the situation, says ...
Leaders Still Not Connecting with Employees, Survey Finds
In a business environment that demands employee commitment, leaders who make it a point to connect with their people are a step ahead. Unfortunately, however, 91 percent of America's workers say ...