Should Professionals use Social Media? What is your objective? Are you looking to connect with friends and loved ones and post about your personal life? Or is your objective to further your career? Knowing the nuances of social media networks will help you decide if you should or shouldn’t use social media. Cons Social media […]
How our World has Changed The current shelf life our technology is about as long as a tuna sandwich. Tech disruptions have overturned entire industries. Think of how Uber, Airbnb, and others have changed the way we travel. We are uncouth if we pay at Starbucks with cash, how dare we not use their app?!! […]
Have you ever met someone who you just couldn’t get through to? There could be many reasons for this, one of the most common is different communication styles. Communication styles are deeply engrained, based on hereditary and environmental factors. Our “style” tends to remain rather constant through life. Since it’s all we know, many leaders […]
No is a complete sentence. Why do some leaders have a hard time with these two little letters? Why it’s Hard to Say No According to Dr. Judith Tingley, author of Say What You Mean, Get What You Want: A Businessperson’s Guide to Direct Communication, the biggest barrier to communicating assertively is fear. We fear […]
According to William Strunk Jr.’s Elements of Style, “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.” Too many details cause the minds of your audience to wander. Know when […]
