I’m not a fan of hybrid meetings I’ve led many of them in my “side” role as a meeting facilitator, and they never go as well as purely live or purely virtual meetings. Why? Because, as my creative strategist Melea Seward says, they’re meetings where “some people are live and some people are virtual, and Read More
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Job Hunting? The Right Story Helps You Succeed
Long before she became Director of Recruiting at The Hired Guns, an award-winning digital talent agency, Melea Seward became my creative strategist, guiding how I’ve grown my business. But Melea could just as easily be called a futurist, a trend-spotter (she read the COVID tea leaves long before anyone else I know), a polymath (someone Read More
Why You Should Never Gather Your Thoughts
In the summers, when I was a kid, I used to gather blueberries on the north shore of Massachusetts, on Cape Ann. Like the person in this photo, I was a big fan of “one for the pot, five for me”-style gathering. But there was always enough, when I’d eaten my fill, to make blueberry Read More
Sneaky or Nasty Little Voice vs. Reality: The Bout in Your Brain
I spend a lot of time thinking about the “Nasty Little Voice” (NLV) that feeds self-judging throughts to my clients (and me). And recently, it occurred to me that: Your NLV doesn’t have to sound nasty. It can actually sound quite reasonable, which, in my view, is just plain SNEAKY. And… Your NLV and SLV Read More
How Do You Handle Disrespectful Questions?
A Problem That’s Thankfully Rare Most of the time, an audience is on the speaker’s side. The people who come to hear you want you to succeed—in part because it’s more fun to listen to a speech that goes smoothly than to watch a speaker struggling onstage. But sometimes, your audience includes that person. The Read More