Tag: Communication

Language Can Be A Barrier, But Communication Is Universal

Good poetry makes me forget words, renders me speechless. I don’t hear language littered like trinkets. These aren’t roadside tchotchkes, they’re riverbed stones. Feelings don’t clink like pebbles on tin scraps. These landscapes are laid like boulders, grenade-shattered reveries, vast canyons we’ve ignored… but poetry lets us walk among their ruins. —Kerry Flory What a …

You’re Doing Something Wrong If You Have To Ask For Loyalty

How do you develop loyalty when it doesn’t exist? How do you transform an organization’s or team’s culture? What things are loyalty killers? These questions are ongoing challenges for all of us who seek to move ourselves, our teams – and others – from good to great. The Godfather, Michael Corleone, built his empire on …

Truing Your Wheel

This would be the equivalent of a quick hitter in basketball. It’s a “deceptively simple 3-min segment video from Dr. Laura Trice as she impresses upon viewers the power of the magic words “Thank You” – to deepen a friendship, to repair a bond, to make sure another person knows what they mean to you.” …

Good vs. Great Teachers

The important thing is not what teachers know but what their students know, not what teacher can do but what their students can do. Good teachers speak the language of intellect – words – and communicate clearly so that students understand. They use hindsight to learn by their mistakes and improve. Excellent teachers speak the …

Your Team Culture Is Held In The Conversations

A newly minted friend in the US, William Sheldon, spoke about culture recently. He said, and I’m paraphrasing here, ‘culture is held (or staged) in conversations.‘ Culture is defined, and lived, in the way we talk about ourselves and each other; it’s found in our interactions. Think about that for a moment. Read it again… …

The Nature Of Memory

There’s a big difference, to me, between coaching-speak and athlete-speak. Similarly, between scientific babble and real-talk. All the stuff I wrote on neural pathways is classic science-talk. My apologies. I don’t enjoy writing or speaking like that. Allow me to rephrase. … In Made To Stick, they ask readers to give some thought to the …