Video – How Words Shape Our Mind and World
In this short video I explain, with examples, how the words we choose to use can impact our mind and our world.
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Business Communication Skills Tip – Be Prepared
While it’s no surprise that preparation is important, what is often forgotten is that different types of conversations require different types of preparation.
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Walking Coaching – Executive Coaching With A Twist
Walking Coaching Tired of virtual meetings? Here’s something different. There is nothing like a good walk to help clear your mind, boost your energy, and help you consider best options for moving forward. I was working on a project some time ago and feeling completely stuck, nothing was coming together, I was unable to make
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Responding to Requests
Responding to Requests. How often do you get asked to do something? If you are like most, it would be at least once a day, but likely numerous times throughout the day. This makes responding to requests effectively an important part of being a good communicator. So, how can we respond to a request
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Business Communications Skills Tip – Standing Strong
How often do you consider your body posture when communicating? What difference does it make? Here’s a quick experiment. Stand up straight and strong, lengthen your spine, put your head up, spread your arms and say out loud: “I can’t do it, I’m not confident enough to do this? I don’t know what I’m doing”
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Making Requests
How many requests of others do you make in a day? How many in a week? How many in a year? We can’t function in life alone. Making requests are a a vital part of communicating and working with others effectively Yet, often we miss the mark. Things we ask for don’t get done, or
Motorbikes and Metaphors and Analogy in coaching
You may be wondering how motorbikes connect to coaching. In many ways, they don’t connect. But, I want to share the story of how one of my clients used something he was familiar with to explore something more complex – and how I have shared this story with the coaches I mentor to help
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Building Trust and Connection – In A Virtual Environment
I’ve been providing virtual coaching and training for the past 14 years and while the technology has changed in that time (now we have video and I have to look presentable) and some things require more attention, many of the techniques I have used for building trust have remained the same. As someone who speaks
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Business Communications Skills – Tip – Practice makes perfect
Practice Makes Perfect Becoming a better communicator is entirely possible. But just wanting to be better doesn’t make it happen. Like learning to play an instrument, or any other skill, it takes effort and practice. The good news is, practice leads to improvement and even small improvements in how we communicate can make a difference
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Are We Stuck With Our Bad Communications Habits Forever?
Communicating well, like any other skill, is something that we can learn to do. And something that we can get better at with practice. I’ve often come across a misguided belief that we are either born good communicators or bad communicators. A belief that some people are ‘naturals’ and some are not. Some people just
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