The last few weeks have felt like I was playing Whac-a-Mole. Travel. Back-to-back-to-back training programs. Coaching sessions. The holidays. Visiting family. Sickness. It’s all been there. But I also had several new or altered programs to develop. This has...
I’ve just finished coaching a group making a pitch for a very large grant. The pitches were virtual – the entire team was spread out over multiple locations and continents. While everyone agreed that an in-person presentation would be preferred, that opportunity was...
I’ve been quoted by students and clients as saying I hate PowerPoint. That’s not true. I hate BAD PowerPoint. Which is, sadly, almost the same thing since it’s rare that I see slides and visuals that are effective, or even necessary. In the last month I’ve...
After years of procrastination and adaptation, I recently had my second total hip replacement this year. THR is a radical one-way street—there’s no going back. The surgeon sawed off my femoral head, cleaned out the hip socket (with a chisel and drill), and replaced...
The central model of our training methodology (adapted from Aristotle’s work a few millennia ago), says that great communication lives at the intersection of what you say, how you say it, and the relationship that exists between the speaker and the listener. On an...
