Tag Archives: communication

Use This Reserach-Based Appreciation Formula to Boost Retention, Productivity, and Engagment

When used consistently and delivered sincerely, appreciation fuels high performance by helping employees feel valued, respected, impactful, and confident – all the emotions required for high engagement and high-quality work that benefits both the employee and the business. Appreciation is also a powerful form of feedback. It reinforces what right looks like and the behaviorsContinueContinue reading “Use This Reserach-Based Appreciation Formula to Boost Retention, Productivity, and Engagment”

A Simple Weekly Pause That Changes Everything

Insights fade fast. Life gets noisy. Old habits return. But a Weekly Reflection keeps your awareness alive. It’s a short strategic reset that helps you stay aligned, energized, and intentional.

Energy Protection Technique: Reveal Your Personal Values & Priorities

One of the easiest ways to prevent unnecessary emotional and cognitive energy drain is to have a clear understanding of the values and priorities that are most important to you.

“Derailer” Disrupting Your Meetings? Try This 3-Step Technique

Do you have a meeting participant who regularly interjects plot twists that cause confusion, doubt, or fear? I call them grenade launchers, and I have a technique for getting things back on track. But the first thing to keep in mind is that their grenade-launching behavior often stems from fear-based conditioning. They’ve learned that it’sContinueContinue reading ““Derailer” Disrupting Your Meetings? Try This 3-Step Technique”

How to Leverage Listening for Smoother Relationships

Bottom Line Up Front: Listening only happens when others feel heard, and how well we listen is based on our intention while the other person is talking. Many of us often enter conversations with the intention of multi-tasking or judging what we hear. I call these Distracted Listening and Defensive Listening, and neither are helpfulContinueContinue reading “How to Leverage Listening for Smoother Relationships”

Overwhelmed? Use Your Values to Tame Your To-Do List

While the pandemic lockdown helped many of us recalibrate our life priorities and gave us a new perspective on how we should spend our time, some of us are finding ourselves sliding back into the old familiar grind of high-pressure hustling to tackle the ever-expanding to-do list. The root cause? Prioritization. When too many thingsContinueContinue reading “Overwhelmed? Use Your Values to Tame Your To-Do List”

How Change Comm Can Strengthen Relationships

Our brains tend to automatically classify transitions as “high-risk” because of the likelihood that we might lose something as a result. However, these high-stakes situations present the ideal opportunity to lift engagement by strengthening relationships between employees and leaders. Using change communication to create an emotionally healthy environment allows employees to focus more of theirContinueContinue reading “How Change Comm Can Strengthen Relationships”

5 Expectations of Today’s High-Impact Employees

As life priorities continue to recalibrate in the wake of the pandemic, today’s employees are looking for work experiences that satisfy five essential human needs: 1 – Achieving GROWTHImproving their skills and making progress in their occupations and careers(Note: this does not always mean promotions) 2 – Having an IMPACTMaking a difference in meaningful waysContinueContinue reading “5 Expectations of Today’s High-Impact Employees”

Should We Be Saying “I Love You” at Work? 

My client swiftly angled her laptop toward me with an urgent command of “read this!”  Just above the email signature block displaying the sender’s name, title, and company logo was the most unexpected sign-off phrase:   “Love you!”  It was an email from an executive at a consulting firm. It was sent to a client weContinueContinue reading “Should We Be Saying “I Love You” at Work? “