You’ve prepared and analyzed, written and read and composed and rehearsed. You walk into the room ready for a solid,clear discussion The discussion begins and goes in a completely different direction. Did you see this coming? Can you flex with it? It has happened to all of us at one time or another: the misread […]
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Recently a friend reminded me of a scene she encountered on an evening out that got her to thinking about conversation and relationships. We call the story the canoe conversation. She was out to dinner by herself and she and an older couple were the only patrons in this Northwest-themed restaurant. Hanging from the ceiling
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We spend a lot of time in conversations and in electronic communications. Sometimes we lose the thread of who were are and our ideals. Have confidence and be positive. Be your brand with no apologies. This came up after seeing the movie “The Help.” A repetitive theme and scene in the story is when the
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To be an effective networker you need to be armed with stories. Stories help you connect and make points with your fellow networkers so that they can relate to you and you to them. Stories have a beginning, a middle and an end. But they also need to be relevant to who you are talking
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The other day I had a short conversation with a client about trade show graphics. It seems she was having a bit of a battle with her art department about the format and formula of the graphics going into her new trade show booth. One of the biggest problems was consistency. As we sat talking,
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