The Worst Way to Start a Presentation
Jun 27, 2011Imagine you’re out on a date (it could be date night with your spouse, a blind date with a total stranger or whatever). Now, let’s say you really want to win that date over, become the only person in the room he or she can see or hear. We’re talking full-blown smitten here. How do you think you should start that date: by …
Bad Listening Can Hurt Your Career
Jun 21, 2011Almost every conversation involves 4 layers: Facts, Interpretations, Reactions and Ends. At Leadership IQ, we call this the FIRE model.
Each of these four elements of conversation feeds into the next. The process starts with the Facts, things that empirical evidence render objectively provable. And from the facts are born …
The One Question That Instantly Improves Accountability
Jun 14, 2011There’s one area that we all participate in where accountability raises its head, and that is meetings.
In a typical meeting, people share several ideas, goals and plans, but we’re all too familiar with what often happens next: nothing.
Days, even weeks go by, and no one brings their concepts to life. Virtually no …
How to Prepare Your Culture for Change
Jun 2, 2011Change is hard. Whether you’re facing a big change like reinventing a business model or something simple like the day paychecks come out, change is difficult.
One Harvard Business School study found that 70% of change efforts fail. That’s not a typo, that’s seven-zero! Big or small, change efforts seem to run into the …
