Your personality, culture, needs and personal challenges collectively affect your ability to communicate with others. To effectively communicate with anyone in social or professional settings, you must develop a specific set of skills. Here are some ways that you can improve your ability to talk to people from a variety of backgrounds. (more…)

Most organizations lack a clear, consistent message about what they do. When asked what they do, employees within the same organization will often describe their organization completely differently, and some employees don’t even know how to answer the question at all!

The following activity not only brings this truth to light, it leads to discussion around writing an organizational message that everyone can buy into and easily articulate. (more…)