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In a recent conversation with one of my one-on-one mentoring clients, we had a lively discussion about what it takes to persuade senior management. This particular leader was frustrated with the challenges he was having in communicating with several of
I’ve written in the past about how it’s important to modify your approach when you’re communicating upward, including in this column – How to persuade and influence senior management – that I wrote for CFM&D Magazine. I was reminded of
I often write in the blog about what it takes to become more persuasive in the workplace (including this column I wrote last year for Profit Magazine). A few weeks ago, one of my professional colleagues offered me a perspective
Okay, I’m super pumped! Today marks my first column for ProfitGuide.com, the online version of Profit Magazine, a Canadian business magazine aimed at entrepreneurs, focusing on how to find opportunity and seize it, management practices, case studies and access to
I’ve blogged previously about how we sometimes use phrases that cause us to be viewed by others as tentative, unsure, and hesitant, and thus inadvertently minimize our power, credibility and impact. See Phrases that diminish your power of persuasion. I
Are you inadvertently sabotaging your power of persuasion by using words that make you seem unsure, hesitant, tentative, or unassertive? You might be. Here are some phrases that you should never have in your business vocabulary: I might be wrong