To Reduce Stage Fright, Prepare Good preparation reduces performance anxiety. Next time you need to present to an audience, follow these three steps: Be confident in your topic. Your audience…

Managers must wear many different hats in formulating and implementing task activities related to their positions. In an attempt to understand the diversity of hats managers must wear, Henry Mintzberg…

4 Steps to Generating Your Next Breakthrough   Business leaders can learn a lot from the way that designers solve problems and create new innovations. Successful designers find new ideas…

3 Ways to Effectively Rally the Troops When organizations are struggling and morale is low, it falls on a leader’s shoulders to help keep employees’ chins up and focus on…

Maintain Your Mentoring Relationship Securing the right mentor is a major hurdle, but maintaining the relationship can be just as challenging. To keep the mentoring relationship going, try these three…

Command Attention like an Executive Executive presence is not an innate quality; it is a set of behaviors that you can learn over time. Whether you are a natural wallflower…

3 Don’ts of Persuasion In today’s business environment, it’s not enough to tell employees to do something. You need to also explain why they should. This is why people who’ve…

Get Comfortable with Collaboration We praise collaboration for improving problem solving, increasing creativity, and spurring innovation. Done correctly, it does yield all these benefits. But it can also be scary.…