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I’m a reader. My house is full of books, and I trace chapters of my life through what I was reading at the time. In high school and college, you could count on me to always do the assigned reading, not because I was a nerd (though I was), but because I enjoyed it. But ... Continue Reading
I was watching a college basketball game the other night, and the team I was rooting for played well for 38 out of 40 minutes. Then in the last 2 minutes, everything they had been doing right seemed to abandon them. They made wild passes, took bad shots, and generally fell apart. When it came ... Continue Reading
The doing is the practice. When we’re coaching, we teach clients the best ways to practice for a presentation or a speech. But the real truth is—every day is a chance to practice. Every conversation is a chance to practice intention. How am I hoping to affect the person I’m talking to? Am I being ... Continue Reading
Lately I am finding myself in the middle of competing commitments. I have committed to directing a play, Jeeves Intervenes, that opens on February 5. I have committed to the William C. Friday Fellowship for Human Relations, a two-year journey in which the fifth seminar takes place this week. I have committed to an engagement ... Continue Reading
I don’t know about you, but 2022 has gotten off to a very busy, maybe a little overwhelming start. My typical response to having a ton do to is not, as my desktop photo would remind me, to “slow down since there is so much to do,” but instead to try to speed up to ... Continue Reading
Modern living is all about convenience. If we can have what we need, when we need it, at our fingertips, that’s a good thing. Right? The introduction of email (and its siblings, texting, IM, Slack, etc) was supposed to make our work lives more efficient—no more waiting for a call back before you could move ... Continue Reading
Being in front of people can be scary. It makes us feel vulnerable and exposed. And what “being in front of people” means varies from one person to the next. For some folks, the sentence “Let’s just go around the room and quickly introduce ourselves” is the scariest form of being in front of people. ... Continue Reading
A client shared recently that she had gotten a very dry throat and a cough while giving a virtual presentation. After asking a few questions and consulting with Ignite CSP coach Nathan Crocker, here’s what I think was going on. My client was presenting to a large group she didn’t know, and she described the ... Continue Reading
When I was in college, I took a lot of sociology classes. In one, I remember the professor sharing the (possibly apocryphal) story of a woman and her daughter who come to her mother’s house for dinner. All three generations are cooking together, preparing a pot roast for the meal. The youngest watches her mother ... Continue Reading
I’ve been seeing a specific kind of strained communication more and more lately. See if this rings a bell for you: Two or more people are having a discussion that needs to lead to an outcome: a decision, an understanding, a set of actions. Somewhere in the back and forth, at least two people stop ... Continue Reading
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