Moving beyond a too-brief response to spark better, longer conversations How are you doing? How do you feel? How was your weekend? Often, we respond to these innocuous questions with some [...]
Our focus at The Brief Lab is to help professionals become clear and concise communicators. During these training sessions over the last decade with CEOs, military leaders, and business [...]
Turner (a unit of WarnerMedia) operates a large-scale, ad-supported media business spanning a number of premiums content brands, including Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, CNN, TBS, TNT, truTV and [...]
We’ve all been there. On a conference call, at a sales conference, in a meeting in which someone is communicating a new sales pitch or a new product, or explaining a new corporate initiative or a [...]
How do you regain control when there are so many things competing for your attention? The key to productivity isn’t multitasking – it’s single-minded focus. Productive people know how to focus on [...]
Think about the last few meetings you attended. How many people were there? Did everyone contribute in a valuable way? Did everyone even talk? Were people on their laptops and, if so, was it to [...]
Today on the Just Saying podcast, I’m pointing out a problem that confident leaders don’t know they have. In my experience working with CEOs, executives, and military leaders, they tend to [...]