Essential Communication Skills

Dr. K’s article about Know It Alls Featured on Cincom Expert Access

March 11, 2010

My article on dealing with Know it Alls and Think They Know it Alls is one of the featured articles right now. And while you’re on the Cincom site, you might also want to take in one of my favorite articles, written by my friend and fellow blogger J.D. Meier, ‘the Top 10 Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee, for Business and for Life’.

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Can Changing Your Story Change Your Life?

March 1, 2010

Here’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. I love narrative psychology, and teach it to my clients and students as a powerful change tool. Because, consider this. Everyone has a story. And when you change your story (or someone else’s story), you can change a life.

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Paved With Good Intentions – Why You Do What You Do, What You Can Do About It

November 9, 2009

When your problems surface in your awareness as problems, I think you’ll find it instructive and constructive to interpret your awareness of problems as signals from your subconscious that you’re ready for a change and able to make new choices. If your conscious mind sets the direction, then your subconscious is likely to follow.

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How Do We Resolve Conflict With Others? – Reply To A Reader

November 2, 2009

I love the idea of resolving conflict instead of suffering it and making it worse. I frequently do this kind of work with my coaching clients and organizational clients. Effective communication is the key, and breaking the chains of reaction in yourself and then others is the beginning of it.

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How To Brainstorm Successfully – Life Skills

October 12, 2009

What matters is that whenever you have an outcome, it’s useful to come at it in a lot of different ways before settling on the best way, in order to keep tunnel vision from narrowing your range of powerful possibilities.

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For Successful Masterminding – First, A Big Clear Outcome

October 5, 2009

Remember me telling you that you need a group committed to being extraordinary? That means you need a big outcome in mind, not some piddly thing that doesn’t mean anything to you. To go for success, you need a big desired state that requires you to stretch in order for you to achieve it. Think of it this way:

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Masterminding Your Success – Life Skills

September 21, 2009

Masterminding is a powerful approach to brainstorming, problem solving and goal achievement that has been around for centuries. It is what takes place when a group of people agree in a committed way to utilize the synergetic advantage of ‘all of us are smarter than any of us,’ to help each person in the group do better than they might on their own.

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Top Ten Interpersonal Skills – 8 – Project And Expect The Best

August 19, 2009

Consider the power of positive projection. It’s based on the fact that most people rise or fall to the level of your expectations and projections. This phenomenon has been used by exceptional teachers to turn average students into exceptional ones, by loving wives to turn angry husbands into loving ones, and by managers to turn poorly performing employees into stellar ones.

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