Speak with Urgency and Clarity

Mar 6, 2025 | Business, Communication

Reading Time: 3 minutesSpeak with Urgency and Clarity (or, “an unusable shower head must be fixed now”) This isn’t about plumbing but about speaking with a sense of urgency and clarity. Most people don’t do either. In other words, they bury...

Three Presentation Tricks for Introverts

Jan 26, 2017 | BRIEF

Reading Time: 3 minutesNot 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 anxiety is especially true for introverts....

Information overload: The science behind bad decisions

Dec 15, 2016 | BRIEF

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen we experience information overload, our brains reach their cognitive limit and our decision-making suffers tremendously. Ladies and gentlemen Elvis has left the building. And it has nothing to do with your intelligence. What if I make the...

BRIEF progress reports: Two free lessons for your team

Nov 30, 2016 | BRIEF

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou 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 important priorities? If you’re like most...

How bad communication kills teamwork

Sep 16, 2016 | BRIEF

Reading Time: 4 minutes“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 to attain uncommon results.” – Andrew...