How many times have you heard “bad news doesn’t get better with age”? One of the most difficult things a leader must do is have tough conversations with co-workers, direct reports, or a boss. [...]

Not everyone is a natural born public speaker. Formal presentations can even make some people sick. As one of my military clients once told me “I’d rather get shot at than speak in public.” This [...]

You need important information from your team members every week, if not every day. But what do you do when these conversations and emails take so much time that it pulls you away from your most [...]

Progress reports and team updates should be positive and productive. So why do we constantly hear from managers that they’re one of the most painful parts of their week? They’re missing the [...]

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people [...]

Does this question ever cross your mind after a rough conversation with your colleagues or boss? “Why doesn’t anyone seem to listen to me? I have awesome ideas!” Or even better, “Hey that was my [...]

The first time I conducted an interview, I focused a lot of attention on the resume. That’s because I was inexperienced and didn’t know what the hell I was doing. Experience is important, but as [...]

  A few years ago I met an aspiring business consultant with all the signs of a rising star. Let’s call her Grace. Grace was leading strategic client engagements and had the undivided [...]

We love our acronyms in the military. Even though it can sound like we’re speaking in code, some of them are very useful. One of my favorites — and one of the the most useful is NSTR – “Nothing [...]

“So what do you do professionally?” Seems like a simple question, right? Then why do so many of us struggle with providing a clear and succinct answer? When every professional interaction could [...]