John Richardson offers this easy to digest outline for giving feedback. It’s valuable to people who need to guide others to be more effective. There are three forms of feedback: Appreciation: Encouragement, praise, acknowledgment. Focus on the individual, not the individual’s performance. Coaching: Advice intended… Read More »Feedback: 13 Ways to Help Improve People’s Performance
I respect data, but I don’t revere it as I revere wisdom and judgment. That’s why I believe leaders need soft skills. After all: Data is not complex. It doesn’t get context, it’s developed by subjective humans, it doesn’t reach… Read More »7 Reasons Why Leaders Need Soft Skills
Actually, there are infinite ways to structure presentations, but these seven are the most popular. In any major art form that has stood the test of time there are structures. In poetry, there are sonnets–Shakespearean and Petrarchan, odes, epics, elegies, villanells, sestinas,… Read More »Infographic: 7 Ways to Structure Presentations
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” Three out of the four nouns in this famous sentence penned by Winston Churchill are concrete nouns. That’s probably why it’s a famous sentence. It packs a powerful sensory… Read More »The Worm That’s Eating your Eloquence
When a projector is out of focus, the images on the screen are fuzzy, leaving the viewer uncertain as to what he is actually seeing. His mind darts from blur to blur trying to make sense of the shapes on the screen.… Read More »Content is King, But Focus is Key
A revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I opened recently at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Yul Brynner, the great actor who devoted much of his career to The King and I, was known to prepare for each performance… Read More »Get Your Act Together