Does Grammar Matter?
Does grammar matter? And did you have a teacher in your youth who insisted on drumming the rules of good ...
Healing Humans Requires the Communal Touch
I posted earlier this year about how a recent study showed that a single conversation a day with another human ...
My Favorite Brain Study Reveals a Startling Secret
One of my favorite brain studies was carried out in 2014 by the renowned Brian C. Clark of Ohio University, ...
Presenting to the Executive Team? Here’s What to Think About – Part 3
This is the third of a three-part series on presenting to the executive team. During the pandemic, I worked with ...
5 Ways to Handle a Hostile Audience
What if your audience is hostile? How do you handle it? It’s a sad commentary of the times that this ...
Now That the Pandemic Is Officially Over…
Human communication is difficult at best. We don’t hear each other perfectly in a noisy, fast-paced world, we don’t listen ...
Is the Hybrid Workplace Working?
Remember Zoom fatigue? Perhaps it’s only a distant memory now as you’ve returned from the pandemic to a full in-person ...
The Real Purpose of Eye Contact
Among the many common misunderstandings about body language is a very basic one: the real purpose of eye contact. We ...
Why One Conversation a Day Is Essential for Us Humans
With a hat tip, or maybe a dedication would be a better word, to my dear friend Riaz Meghji. I ...
Are there any reliable body language ‘tells’?
There’s a lot of misinformation about body language sloshing around in the information ocean that is the Internet. Perhaps the ...
