One Key Way to Demonstrate Confidence In the face of crisis, you cannot stay calm without confidence. You can be apathetic. That’s nihilism, not calmness. That’s doubtfulness and uncertainty that leads to giving up—the complete opposite of confidence. True...
Cultivate the Three Elements of Trust Human interactions rely on trust. We constantly gauge others and try to determine “friend or foe?” from the first second we’re introduced. Others constantly assess us, too. The “Trust Meter” rises and falls throughout specific...
How Good Leaders Handle Stress When I think back over all the dinner parties, showers, church gatherings and various events I’ve hosted over the years, one stands out as a complete and total disaster: Turkey Day in May. Several years ago, after eight months of...
Power Poses: Science or Snake Oil? Have you heard of “power poses”? Between Amy Cuddy’s TED talk (one of the top 20 viewed TED talks of all time), her book called Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, numerous parodies and all the...
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YOUR GUIDE TO CATS & DOGS One of my favorite workshops to present is on how to talk to cats and dogs. No, I haven’t turned into Dr. Doolittle. In this workshop, I use the analogy of cats and dogs to figure out how to gauge a person’s communication needs in the...
