Skip to content

Tag: communication

The Cringe Is Strong With The Zoom Wave

That strange, awkward feeling that one gets when you do something that everyone else is doing, but it feels really weird when actually performing the action.

This specific action is one that was never performed in a pre-pandemic world. Walking out of someone’s office or out of the meeting was the final action in the workplace play.

Now, we all awkwardly stare at each other while surreptitiously trying to blindly click the ‘Leave’ button without breaking eye contact. That or we all end up committing the most cringy action of all to end a pandemic video conference.

I am talking about waving.

9 Steps You Need To Follow For Good Business Communications

One of the biggest mantras that my team hears over and over and over again: Communicate, communicate, and then go back and communicate some more. This concept is absolutely critical to everything in the business world. People crave information. People need direction. People desire knowledge. All of these things come from communication. Yet, most of us don’t know how to make this transfer of information work effectively. There is no place that the delivery of news (or lack thereof) drives conflict than in movies. This is an easy and fun game to play. First, pick your favorite movie. Let’s use Back To The Future 2 as an example. Second, determine some kind of communication that would have saved everyone a whole lot of trouble and basically ended the movie right then and there. Ready? Whew that was fast. The new version of Back To The Future 2 is now only…

7 Ways To Gain And Keep Your Manager’s Trust

The world has changed. Upon first glance that statement seems obvious and almost a little silly. Of course the world has changed, the world changes each and every day. New products come out. More people are The concept that is really on my mind here is the massive changes in the workplace due to the coronavirus. SO maybe a better phrase to use here would be something like this: The workplace has changed. And it will probably never go back to the way that it was before. Yet, even thinking through this idea, this is nothing new. Go watch an episode of Mad Men. The workplace that we know in 2019 looked nothing like that office ideal. While it can be said that any dramatization of workplace culture and etiquette can only present one ruby-lensed viewpoint of a workplace, there are some big differences that can be seen when comparing…

Forget 10X – What about a 1000X Engineer?

Some recent reading brought the concept of a 10X Engineer to my attention, specifically an article titled: “The 100x Engineer”. This is a concept that I had no knowledge of prior to this revelation but after digging deeper there is quite a large amount of information regarding this philosophy out there on the web. Think about all of the things in your life that would change if some of them were 10X. Sure, we would all love a 10X bigger paycheck. What if your internet was 10X faster? Or your car was 10X more fuel efficient? What if you worked out so much that you needed to eat 10X the calories to balance out the workouts?