A series of three videos from Core Skills LLC, packed full of the most important concepts and content to jumpstart your journey as a skillful communicator and leader: 1) A Bit About Brains (12 min) 2) Your Communications Tool Box (9 min) 3) The Skillful (and Safe) Self (8min)...
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Mellody Hobson, CEO of Ariel Investments, gives this great talk about diversity as a competitive advantage and the first steps we can ALL take in the work place toward being “Color Brave”. These conversations are important. They can also be difficult. A skilled, professional facilitator will ma...
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Everyone likes to look smart. In order to show our competence, we tend to rattle off our accomplishments, point to our experience, and speak with authority. This self-focused approach, however, can have a negative effect and sacrifice an important opportunity to build trust and alignment. In this Forbes ar...
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We all have things that we want to achieve in our lives — as individuals and in organizations. And for most of us, the path to those things starts by setting a specific and actionable goal. This article focuses on why systems are more productive that goals for individual achievement. I would argue th...
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All of them this is one of my go-to articles explaining what that is and how to create it. A must-read. HBR August 2017 by Laura Delizonna, PhD...
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The authors of Becoming Brilliant also believe in “Core Skills.” They suggest we should start teaching children the following: Collaboration with others Communication (skillful communication, that is) Content — especially learning how to understand language Critical thinking Creative inno...
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This report highlights social science research showing that people in positions of power aren’t always the best people to have on a team that needs to collaborate and work creatively . . . or why you might need a facilitator to make the process more efficient....
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A Kim Scott article in Quartz shares the surprising secret to being a good boss....
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This New York Times article highlights “Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others.” Three key ingredients to high-peforming teams: 1) equal participation of team members 2) good emotion-reading skills among members 3) having more women on the team Read the article...
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While facilitating a day-long leadership training this week, we came to a case where the group might be suffering from the kind of “terminal niceness” discussed in this Forbes article. It’s a reminder that honesty really is the best policy....
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