Working with Emotional Intelligence

Every year my team and I read a book and discuss it as a group, at about a chapter a month in pace, sometimes I choose the book based on a topic I think we need to cover. Last year we worked on The 8th Habit by Stephen Covey, which is fairly heavy content covering … Continue reading

Building Better Presentations

Know your Audience The most important thing that I have learned about building effective presentations is beginning by understanding your audience. The book slide:ology by Nancy Duarte has some fantastic suggestions on how to get to the point that you’re planning your presentation based on who you’re presenting to. She outlines a simple seven step … Continue reading

July Goals

Leadership Everyone Communicates, Few Connect This Wednesday morning I’ll of the kicking off the first of the seven sessions of our training series based upon book.  Mission accomplished on the presentation and slide deck as they are ready to go, I also implemented a website with a number of tools to assist us with these … Continue reading

June Goals

Leadership Everyone Communicates Few Connect Last year I proposed doing a lunch and learn series based upon this book. The book grabbed my attention because the idea of connecting with people that I work with is something I believe is critical to the success of the organization, my team, our projects and myself. We’re all … Continue reading