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25 Questions That Move Conversations Beyond Small Talk
(Because “Fine, thanks” is the Conversation Killer of the Century)
Picture a room of ten people, your team, your family, or a table of conference attendees. According to recent data from the American Psychological Association, seven of those ten people needed more emotional support in the past year than they received. Let that sink in.
While we are all “connected” by devices, we are starving for connection. LinkedIn’s 25 Big Ideas That Will Define 2026 highlights this exact tension: loneliness is reaching a breaking point. And while AI is getting scary good at simulating companionship, it lacks the one thing we crave…
Connect Rather Than Correct: The Leadership Skill AI Can’t Replicate
A senior executive recently shared a story with me. During a strategy session, a director presented a proposal with one glaring flaw. The executive leaned…
What a Tile Game Taught Me About Leadership (at My Mom’s 90th Birthday)
Last Wednesday, I flew to celebrate my mother’s 90th birthday, an age she wears with the kind of energy that makes the rest of us…
5 Keys to Get Growing in Your Career
Spring is a time of new growth and, I believe, a time of infinite possibility and personal development. However, just as you can’t expect a…
“I Know Just How You Feel” “You Do?”
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at…
4 Keys to a Healthy Workplace
It’s January, and we all know what that means: a friend will announce that she’s promising to cut all carbs from her diet or she…
Are You Truly Celebrating the Season?
2022 brought uncertainty, inflation, supply-chain shortages, bigotry, uncomfortable change and all too often, vitriol. The demands on everyone’s time only seemed to increase causing many…
Do Your Rituals Serve or Sabotage You?
Whether your caregivers read you a nightly bedtime story or your work team regularly meditates before a meeting, you experienced the power of rituals. These…
5 Strategies to Leverage Your Professional, Digital Connections
When was it that people first started to chat about their digital connections? I’m sure Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn would know. LinkedIn was…
Why Empathetic Leaders Must Read Fiction
Empathy, the necessary human trait of having the ability to share in the feeling of others, is declining in our society. Things have gotten worse,…
How to Politely Leave a Meeting Early
Would it surprise you to learn my Google Analytics report shows my most searched for blog continues to be “phraseology to leave a meeting early”?…
