Lead Your Team Right How Can You Lead When You’re Not Sure Who Your Team Members Are? As a leader, you want to lead your team right. You want to serve your team. But how do you do it if you’re not sure who they are and what they need in order to succeed? Each…

Overheard this week

In this week’s Friday Feature, I relate life lessons from two short interactions. These two brought me some great knowledge. People drop wisdom in their everyday conversation that they don’t even realize. Today’s lessons come from two frenemies and a six-year-old. Listen to get the shameless eavesdropping scoop.

Doing Some Public Speaking? Three Things You Must Do To Be Effective

To Be Effective, Spark Curiosity, Interact and Help Them Experience Your Message. This photo captures the best way to engage an audience. The entertainer connected with the audience member. He aroused the child’s curiosity. He’d been spinning plates, saw the child watching, and invited him to play. They shared laughter and fun. But things didn’t…

doorways

If not this door, another door. The universe just keeps nudging us in the right direction, doesn’t it? Sometimes, it’s driving and hitting all the right lights. Sometimes, it’s having events that you didn’t really want to do get canceled at the last minute, therefore, freeing you up to go do what you really want…

Overheard: episode 3, zombie brains, the drive to succeed, and boy sopranos

This week’s Overheard has three fun bits. These slices of life are brought to you by me being a shameless eavesdropper. I learn so much about people, their dreams, ideas, and lives by keeping an open ear and an open mind. I hope you enjoy these snippets of life from cafe’s restaurants and the streets…

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How to Use Point-Counterpoint to Improve Your Plans, Goals, and Logistics

How to Use “Point/Counterpoint” to Improve Your Plans, Goals, and Methods Want a great way to clarify who you are and what you stand for? Write down what you want to achieve and why. Now, argue for the other side. Make a counter-argument against what you believe and what you want to achieve. Counter every…