Remember “Knock-Knock” jokes? Someone goes, “Knock-Knock,” and you go, “Who’s there?” And the other person answers with, let’s say, “Hike.” You say, “Hike who?” Then the other person says, “I...
Read more +Remember “Knock-Knock” jokes? Someone goes, “Knock-Knock,” and you go, “Who’s there?” And the other person answers with, let’s say, “Hike.” You say, “Hike who?” Then the other person says, “I...
Read more +When your team goes virtual for good, it’s harder for it to work cohesively as a unit. As I write this it may be too soon to tell, but I believe a sea change is happening in the corporate world....
Read more +Have you ever played the game “Telephone?” It’s where a group of people line up and the person on the one end whispers something to whoever’s next to them. That person then turns and whispers what...
Read more +When your entire team is working from home, normal ways of catching up on projects go out the door. When you were all working at an office, it was easy to run into Mary from Accounting in the...
Read more +It’s happened. The Zoom revolution is upon us. In 2020, everyone from CEOs to celebrities, everything from book clubs to board meetings, went virtual. Suddenly, we were all forced to reckon...
Read more +Appearances matter, because, unfortunately, that’s how people make judgments about others. Maybe before you started working from home, you would watch those perfectly coiffed and dressed hosts...
Read more +Seinfeld once tackled the problem of “close-talkers,” people who stand too close to you when they make conversation. Well, in this blog, I’d like to take on what I call “over-talkers”.
Read more +When we see outtakes from movies or TV shows, where someone says something they shouldn’t and everybody on the set breaks up, we laugh too. After all, it’s hilarious to watch someone else screw...
Read more +You’re working from home now, due to the pandemic. The good news? No commute. The bad news? You still have to primp and preen for your next video conference, so you don’t look like holy hell in...
Read more +Now that more of us are working at home, we must deal with meetings where nobody’s in the same room. Possibly not even in the same country. Luckily, we haven’t gotten to a place where we’re on...
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