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“Without a healthy dose of heart, a supposed ‘leader’ may manage – but he does not lead.” So wrote Daniel Goleman in Emotional Intelligence. This episode has a unique tool to help you develop heart.

Often our best thinking gets buried beneath the everyday demands of our work. Time is precious. Priorities compete. Accessing your best thinking requires you to honor your thoughts and make time for them.

What do you choose for us to see in your workspace? Pictures of your family or art from the corporate art bin? Rows of work binders or books you’re reading? Use your space to manage how you’re perceived.

Engaging in a feedback conversation that yields valuable insights is not intuitive for most of us. This five-part model gives you tools you can use tomorrow immediately to help you boost your career.

When leaders derail, it’s often due to their inability to overcome their strengths. Are you over-relying on your strengths? Have you perhaps turned up the volume on them until they’ve begun to distort?

Five behaviors to help you communicate clearly. These behaviors are part of an essential communications skill set. Practicing these apparently simple behaviors puts you on a lifelong learning journey that has no finish line.

A three-step model for crafting stories so your data migrate from people’s heads to their hearts. Until you learn to tell stories, you cannot capture your listeners’ imaginations and get them to envision the future you’re seeing.

What message do you convey when you’re doing nothing at all? A daughter thinks her dad is perpetually angry. Her reflection woke him up to the truth that making the impression you want requires choice and awareness.

Three techniques to use at the start of any spoken communication to make your ideas leap out, right at the start, and grab your listeners. Plus one question to ask yourself before you begin to write.