ENLIST YOUR AUDIENCE TO MAKE THE LOAD LIGHTER Ever go to a conference break out session and experience 90 minutes of lecture, paired with the never-ending Power Point slide deck? It’s not a very engaging experience, is it? Now, imagine attending a four-hour conference break out session, with 70 other people in the room with you….
Leadership: Integrate Both Genders
I’ll say it: men and women are different. By many measures—physically, biologically, brain chemistry, shoe choice—we are different. We are the same, too. We like to laugh. We are fierce protectors of those we love. We seek meaningful work to occupy our time. Can both men and women reconcile these two disparate notions and be…
Leaders: Get The Rude Out
Given my love of words, I subscribe to Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus. Each day, I look forward to an email from Thinkmap’s Word of the Day. (Yes, I’m that geeky.) Today’s word is “erudite”. It means “having or showing profound knowledge”. Don’t you just love how it trips off your tongue? Say it with me: erudite….
Find a New Flock
Have you noticed that when people attend meetings, go to networking events or participate in training classes that they tend to sit with people they already know? In academic circles this is known as homophily – the tendency to associate with people of “similarity” or familiarity. This is sometimes called the “birds of a feather”…
Socrates Was On To Something
Both of my kids are really into the stretchy bracelet craze. On the way to the grocery store today, my nine year old son remarked that one of his bracelets looked liked Medusa. Feigning ignorance, I said, “Medusa? Who’s that?” He replied, “You know, Mom, the mythological character who had snakes on top of her…