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Active listening skills in leadership

Holly Green — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:30:00 +0000

In this age of the Internet, smart phones and social media, it seems like people are talking at each other more than listening to each other. Pause for a moment to consider how many emails, text messages, voice mails and...

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5 ways email costs your company

maura-thomas — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:00:00 +0000

Email is supposed to be a great productivity enhancer. It’s how our work arrives to us and how we make requests of others. However, because of the way most of us use this tool, it’s turned out to be a...

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How conversational capacity can improve workplace communication

Vistage Staff — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:29:00 +0000

When people leave organizations, they often cite poor workplace communication as a top reason for moving on. But in the age of the “Great Resignation,” it is far from the driving factor, according to Craig Weber, founder of The Weber...

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Improve decision making with heart-brain communication

Vistage Staff — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 17:58:00 +0000

The brain is the powerhouse of the body. Or so we thought… The heart organ, it turns out, has a mind of its own. Research shows that the heart doesn’t just take commands from the brain—heart-brain communication is a dynamic,...

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How leaders decide: Three lessons to learn from one of U.S. history’s bloodiest days

Greg Bustin — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 12:46:50 +0000

Winners, we’re told, write history. Yet the history of one of the bloodiest days on the American frontier — June 25, 1876 — was written by the losers. For nearly 100 years, Americans portrayed the Battle of Little Bighorn, commonly known...

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Executive coaching: How to get it right

Vistage Staff — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 09:00:18 +0000

Nearly two out of three CEOs do not receive outside leadership advice, though nearly all of them want it. That’s the headline of a study onducted by the Center for Leadership Development and Research at the Stanford Graduate School of...

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Repairing a relationship in the workplace

Judith Glaser — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:00:57 +0000

Suppose that you have argued with a colleague and now you avoid talking to them because the relationship feels strained. You may wonder how to repair and restore that relationship—how to start over, make up, rebuild trust and work through...

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The chemistry behind your conversational intelligence

Judith Glaser — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:00:40 +0000

Understanding the chemical reactions to your conversations leads to conversational intelligence and more effective communications. For many decades, I’ve been intrigued by the chemical impacts — both positive and negative — that conversations have on us. I married a biochemist...

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The art and heart of storytelling [video podcast]

Dave Nelsen — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:23:26 +0000

For many executives, storytelling is an effective communication tool for bringing a presentation to life. But people aren’t necessarily born with great skills in storytelling or speaking. It’s “craft that must be learned,” explains Mikki Williams, an award-winning Certified...

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