Team Building Won’t Fix the Team

By Pam Paquet Managers commonly seek out “team building” sessions for their staff. They want a fix for low morale, falling productivity, strained working relationships...

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Presentations to Decision-Makers a Double Opportunity

By Eric Bergman There is no question that it can be daunting to present to senior management teams or decision-makers, even for the most seasoned...

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Communicating As A Leader

We often find ourselves sitting through long and boring PowerPoint presentations where we witness the presenter slowly disappear as they are outperformed by their...

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Memory Boosters: 9 Easy Ways to Remember Your Presentation Material

By Bruna Martinuzzi One of the most common reasons we experience presentation anxiety is the fear that we will forget what we have to say...

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Avoid Communication Pitfalls in the Workplace

By Bruna Martinuzzi There is a large body of work concerning the way women's communication style differs from that of men. For example, there is...

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Are You Talking to Me? Rx for Extraverts and Introverts

By Bruna Martinuzzi George Bernard Shaw said: “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.” Nowhere is this statement...

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Cut the Noise and Cut to the Chase: Tips for Streamlining Workplace Communication

If you don’t think that our society is experiencing a communication overload, you really are living under a rock. We can (over)share every aspect...

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Smart Swarm: Birds, Bees and Better Business

By Nilesh Bhagat, CHRP What can bugs, birds and fish teach us about the way we do business? The constraints of the organizational hierarchy common in...

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