Make ADJECTIVES Your Friend!
Written by Achim Nowak
Don’t talk like a written memo. When you speak, make adjectives your friend. Your verbal encounters will transform your outcomes.
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How To Help WELL (at work)
Written by Achim Nowak
There is helping well, and there is interfering, knowing better, rescuing, being annoying. What does helping well at work look like?
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Unlimit Your Limits, Please!
Written by Achim Nowak
We think we know our limiting beliefs. Have seen our blind spots. Think again. Many of us are masterful at camouflaging our limits.
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The Perils of Talking Fast
Written by Achim Nowak
When you speak fast, your message is hijacked by your delivery. And the message never wins. Manage your delivery – it’s an essential life skill.
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To Gesture Or Not To GESTURE …
Written by Achim Nowak
Leaders tend to receive conflicting messages about the use of gestures in professional settings. Consider this research conducted in the Netherlands!
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Be IMPATIENT. Do It Well.
Written by Achim Nowak
Impatience is a GREAT character trait, no matter what your spiritual guru may tell you. Cultivate it. Deploy it well.
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How Do YOU Define SUCCESS?
Written by Achim Nowak
In a world that seems to be coming off the rails, what does success look like for you? Professional success? Personal?
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My Cat Lady Lessons
Written by Achim Nowak
There are things that enrage us. At work, at home. We feel powerless to effect a change. How do we let go?
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Beware of the BYSTANDER Effect!
Written by Achim Nowak
How long do you stand by before you speak up? Observe but don’t say anything? What is the cost to you personally, and to your business, for your silence in the face of things that need to be fixed?
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How to Apologize Well
Written by Achim Nowak
Confident leaders apologize. Smart leaders apologize. Only the weak and incompetent ones don’t. Apologize well.
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