How to Make a Career Transition Overcoming Fear and Inhabiting Your Emerging Self The sense that something needs to change in your career can creep up on you. For some, it may take years. It might begin as a kind…
Who is Dr. Julie Diamond? Dr. Julie Diamond is the author of Power: A Users Guide and an international trainer and coach. She is also the creator of the Diamond Power Index which is the first 360-degree psychometric tool which…
How They Used the Kite to Help Find and Capture bin Laden Recently, best-selling author Steven Johnson published a book titled Farsighted where he shared how to make the decisions that matter most in our lives. The book includes an…
7 Steps to Running Effective and Engaging Team Meetings Most teams don’t really work. And most team meetings don’t work either. Am I going too far? What should you expect of your team, and your team meetings? I believe…
Alternative Meeting Guidelines to Elon Musk's Advice to 'Walk Out' So, Elon Musk says you should “walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value”. I feel compelled to…
How to Design Effective Meetings That Get Decisions Made The Kite © As a Tool To Better Structure Your Meetings In my previous article and video I spoke about the two main problems that derail business meetings. They were the “social”…
Executive Meetings Need Help. Here's Why and How. Are you bored? Maybe you’re waiting for something real, and important to happen in your executive meetings? USA Today magazine recently reported that 49% of all office meetings were found to be…
Creating Safety for Employees to Really Talk Background. This case study relates to my work with a small pharmaceutical company completed recently. I had been invited to facilitate a full day session with a group that included the MD, the…
The Single Biggest Reason Why Meetings Go Wrong This video examines the poor thinking that causes so many meetings to disappoint. Managers are in such a hurry to get answers from groups, they unintentionally hamstring groups to deliver those answers!…
