We negotiate for our children all the time. We want them to have the best teacher. We work with their coaches to make sure they get some game time. We have their best interests at heart. We negotiate with our family about how and where to spend the holidays. We state...
Are you being stingy? by not letting others know what you have to offer? by not speaking up and sharing your opinion or ideas? Sometimes we are so focused on our own stuff and our fears or discomfort talking about ourselves that we forget that what we have to...
For the past two weeks, the focus of this blog has been how you would handle a situation at work when someone takes credit for your idea. Unfortunately, this happens quite frequently according to many of my readers, and their responses demonstrated a wide range of...
My blog last week posed a theoretical situation to all of you about a woman who was very excited about an idea she had to move a stale project forward for her department. She shared her idea with a colleague at lunch and the colleague ended up presenting the proposal...
Sometimes ideas come to me at the strangest times, like when Im taking a shower, at 2 am when I cant sleep, or when I’m driving my car. But when a great idea comes along you know it right away, right? This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. As I was driving...
The ability to communicate effectively and confidently has a dramatic effect on our ability to advance our careers. Yet many of us fall into the trap of using weak language that sabotages our efforts to present ourselves with authority and confidence. I would just...
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