by ida | Leadership, Listening
Is it time to stop talking and start asking questions? Many leaders don’t ask questions – of their teams, their colleagues, or their customers. Why not? In many instances, they • are expected to have all the answers • assume their employees or colleagues don’t...
by ida | Meetings, Problem solving
“No one participates.” This is a common complaint that leaders often have about the meetings they lead. Is this problem happening at your meetings too? You probably have a good understanding of the word participation, but let’s begin with a dictionary definition...
by ida | Leadership, Presentation Strategies
How natural is your presentation style? So often it seems that presenters leave their personalities behind as soon as they set foot on stage. It’s not clear where people got the idea that a presentation should be done without any personality or enjoyment, but it has...
by ida | Creativity, Meetings
You probably don’t have to stretch your imagination very far in order to picture yourself and your meeting attendees sitting around a boardroom table in a room with no windows, drab grey walls, and poor ventilation. This setting is a recipe for “boardroom table...
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