The Importance of Feedback

The Importance of Feedback

The more specific, the more terrific! You can’t improve if you don’t know what you’re doing wrong. In reality, many of us complain about underachieving co-workers, but we don’t give them the type of explicit feedback they need to do their jobs...
The Power of Observation

The Power of Observation

  “Observation skills help you understand what is happening in a conversation or in a group. If you are a good observer, you will know how well you are communicating, and can make mid-course corrections.” — Karen Snyder For more of Karen’s...
No One Listens to Me!

No One Listens to Me!

I was an undergrad at the University of Virginia when a classmate said, “It’s so rude to interrupt.” What? I had never heard that before. I truly had made it to college without being taught that interrupting was rude.   My mother tells the story of an ordinary evening...