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The Human Edge™ in Interviews: What the Best Candidates Do Differently

If you’re in the middle of a job search right now, you already know this truth: interviewing is exhausting. You prepare. You research the company. You rehearse answers to questions you’ve been asked a hundred times before. And sometimes, after all that effort, you hear… nothing. It’s easy to start wondering if you said the wrong thing, missed the perfect answer, or should have prepared more. First, a little encouragement: interviews aren’t just about proving you’re qualified, they’re about showing who you are. In a hiring process increasingly shaped by algorithms, automated screening tools, and résumé filters, the interview is often the first…
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Get Your Ask Together: Why Asking Well Is a Power Skill at Work and at Home

Valentine’s Day is a time many of us think about connection, care, and partnership. Yet long before flowers or chocolates arrive, many of us struggle…
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25 Questions That Move Conversations Beyond Small Talk

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….
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healthy workplace

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…
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inspiration

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…
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Rituals

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…
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Connections

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…
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leaders

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,…
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How to leave a meeting early

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”?…
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Extroverts

Extroverts…Listen Up!

Have you ever heard of an ambivert? No, it isn’t a West Texas animal or a driverless vehicle. An ambivert (and I confess to being…
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Psychological Safety

5 Strategies to Create a Culture of Psychological Safety

Can you recall a time at work you hesitated to share your thoughts, opinions or truth out of concern for possible embarrassment, rejection or even…
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