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Get Productive: Strategies for Productive Body Language
What does your body language say about you? Often when working with leaders on helping accelerate their productive communications skills the topic of body language is discussed. Our non-verbal...
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Get Productive: Make the List
Make a list – you will feel better It’s no secret I love a to-do list. However sometimes I wonder if the right things make it on our to-do lists? With a busy start to this year and a crazy upcoming...
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Get Productive – Just say No!
Productivity is about deletion… not addition. It’s not about adding more to your already full plate, it’s about deleting activities from your plate. One of the most effective ways to delete or...
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Get Productive: Yanking Bootstraps
Recently I read Tammy Hawk-Bridges book Yanking Bootstraps – a great little resource on how to bootstrap your business to success. This small book is full of ideas and insights from someone who...
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Get Productive: Think and Act Strategically
In today’s competitive environment where everyone feels over busy, overwhelmed, overcommitted it’s time to focus on accelerating your productivity and impact by being a strategic leader and thinking...
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Get Productive: Be Great on Platform
Several years ago before attending the National Speakers Association Keynote lab (an industry event for those focused on delivering keynotes as part of their thought leadership practice), I...
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Get Productive: Make a 5-Degree Change
Recently I read the great book The 5 Degree Principle by one of the best coaches I know (and of course I am bias as she is a friend and someone I admire). Shannon Cassidy, CEO of bridge between has...
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Get Productive: Apps to Organize Your Life- Guest Blogger
When Thoreau spoke that the solution to a life “frittered away by detail” was to “simplify, simplify, simplify,” he couldn’t have imagined a world where we manage much of our lives via computers and...
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Get Productive: Don’t lean in… step up!
By now you have heard the buzz about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In. She is listed as one of the 50 most powerful women in Business. I really enjoyed her TED talk and you can watch it...
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Get Productive: Show someone you care – especially this week!
With all that is happening around the world (and especially if you are living anywhere near Boston or have someone you love affected by this horrible event) it is easy to become overwhelmed and wonder...
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Get Productive: Do The Work
In his book Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and get out of your own way, Steven Pressfield had great one liners, deep thoughts and challenging questions for his reader. When I read it I was struggling...
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Get Productive: Use Text Expander for Mac Users
If you are a Mac user you MUST get this app! I know that is strong language and I am not kidding you. No one paid me to write this, no one is paying me to promote this – it saves me hours of typing and...
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Get Productive: Work in Your Strengths
Many authors have written books around discovering your strengths (Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton) and one of my favorites is Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath (I love the online assessment at...
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Get More Money: How to Ask for a Pay Raise
When we have our annual review, sometimes our thoughts lead to money… maybe it’s time for a pay rise? Many people are too scared to ask for a pay rise. Why is this? If you believe you deserve a...
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Get Productive: Book Yourself Solid
Many of you would know of Michael Port’s original book Book Yourself Solid … did you know he recently released an Illustrated version? What’s special about that you ask… well so many things! If you...
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Get Productive: How to be in the Top 10
While attending a National Speakers Association conference several years ago a conversation focused on what it takes to be in the top 10% of speakers who are excelling at their craft, loved by their...
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Get Productive Breaking through the Noise – Guest Blog Stacey Hanke
From social media, to texting, to not having enough time, communication is getting more difficult and complicated. If we want to influence our listeners to act on what we have to say, we need to work...
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Get Productive: Action Replaces Excuses – Guest Blog Stacey Hanke
What Are Your Excuses That Are Holding You Back from Influence? There are two roadblocks most individuals experience that prevent them from taking their communication from good to influential. First,...
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Get Productive: Get Committed
It is said at breakfast the chicken is interested… but the pig is committed! Several years ago I co-facilitated a session at a National Speakers Association with one of my favorite writers, Scott...
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Get Productive: Stop Being Perfect
Kill Perfection - Perfection kills productivity – 80% is OK Several of our clients share that they want everything to be perfect. Voltaire once said, “The perfect is the enemy of the good. He’s...
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