Monthly Archives: May 2024
My number 1 key to successful project delivery
You can try to contain scope, juggle the budget, and negotiate the timelines, but there is one factor I watch like a hawk to ensure my projects remain successful. The key is: purpose-driven communication. I know that I have a … Continue reading
3 Steps to Polished Presentation Skills
Friends, Have you ever been in a meeting or presentation where the speaker sounded so polished and confident that you wished you could communicate like them? Well, you can! With a little practice, you too can sound like a top-notch … Continue reading
Have you ever been in a meeting where someone hogs the microphone?
And then afterwards, you and a few colleagues discuss how no one else got a chance to say anything? The key question here is this: What stopped YOU from voicing your thoughts? Sometimes, we feel that in discussions, someone should … Continue reading
How to tell if you are living in the past
Think of a painful incident from your past which happened to you. 👽 How long did it take you to bring this to your memory? 🤖 When was the last time you thought about this event? ☠When you thought … Continue reading
Sometimes, it’s important to lower your expectations
I have always highlighted the importance of forming connections with people, and strengthening your ties with your network. But here is something I should have also highlighted. When you ping someone with the intent to form a connection via a … Continue reading
The dark side of resilience training.
Learning and development in organisations is crucial for people development. And there are many types of training that are useful, practical and informative. Except resilience training. Resilience training often is code for this: We are about to implement wide-scale changes … Continue reading
An unforeseen and even bigger problem to a harsh solution
So friends, I will be the first to say I don’t have in-depth information about this subject. And I probably have a western bias to this topic. But I do wonder what officials were thinking when the Chinese imposed the … Continue reading
Who do you dislike? Do you even know why?
A former manager was talking to me about all the things she disliked about her peer – and it occurred to me that these qualities were the very things she disliked in herself! Of course, I decided that I was … Continue reading