These qualities make a great impression on your boss, your teams, and your customers. You will be more respected, noticed, and appreciated in the process. As your own CEO of Self, projecting this posi...
The way you walk, talk, stand, and carry yourself sends messages to others that can attract or repel, encourage or discourage, and impress or depress.
Stepping out and stepping up can be an intimidating experience, especially in social situations where the outcomes are unpredictable and uncertain. Have you ever been reluctant to . . . • Say no?• Req...
Sometimes you must earn the right to be included. Otherwise, you may appear awkward or pushy.
Research by the Income Center for Tradeshows found that people are twice as likely to remember you if you shake hands. According to the American Management Association, it takes only one-fortieth of a...
Poise: a graceful and elegant bearing in person; a composure of dignity and manner.Postures: the position of a person’s body when standing, sitting, or walking; carriage, bearing, and stance.
Mix, Mingle, Glow. Stretch beyond your own comfort zone to speak with, sit with, and start conversations with people whom you do not know. Take the initiative to help other people capture the spotligh...
It's a fact. We are magnets who attract whatever we are being. When we emit positive energy, thoughts, feelings, and vibrations, we attract more positives to us. When we emit negative energy, thoughts...
In the legend of Camelot, King Arthur gave consideration as to how his knights might be positioned spatially to impart a message of power and status. He decided they would have their meetings at a rou...
Ignoring his advice, I got up, walked over, gently rested my hands on two of their shoulders and said, Ladies, I have to tell you how much you have impressed me. I just moved to Madison from Florida a...
I was once hired by an organization to deliver a workshop on networking. The goal was to provide their engineers with tools and strategies for expanding their circles of influence—to foster innovation...
How do you minimize the awkwardness in that moment? What are some of the conversations starters you've used to open, encourage, and support enjoyable and beneficial conversations?
Google Proves Nice Counts. On a quest to discover what it takes to build the perfect team, Google launched the Project Aristotle initiative to find the answers. Over a period of several years, they su...
Energy is contagious and infectious and whether it is the good kind or the bad kind—other people feel it.
Being grounded in your lifelong culture and your personal perspective, you are comfortable with the way you see things and may believe it is the best and only way.
Becoming an empathetic listener helps you to better understand how another person feels and why they communicate as they do.
Approachable people are straight-up. It is comforting to know exactly what to expect when you see them. What you see is what you get!
Although it may serve you well, any strength or skill which is overused can become a limitation when it forces you to constantly be moving and looking for the next best thing. Distractions, interrupti...
Your body language is your primary language—and one that every person understands! Although it is non-verbal, evidence suggests that our body language and tone of voice can have a bigger impact and ac...
When you begin conversations with confidence and listen attentively, you will become more flexible and adaptable in most any situation.