communication skills Tag

31 Jul Hire, Inspire, and Engage

Posted at 11:10h in Career Acceleration, Career Success, Communication, Executive Presence, Leadership by Sarah Hathorn 0 Comments

Leaders have to get outside their own heads enough to see to it that the minds and passions of their employees are fully engaged for the greater good of the entire organization. This is Not Your Daddy’s Era That’s the real test of a leader in...

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24 Jul Train Skills, but Recruit Attitude

Posted at 10:00h in Career Acceleration, Corporate Culture, Executive Presence, Leadership, Teams by Sarah Hathorn 0 Comments

Competition is so intense that you cannot afford to just hire good talent. You have to hire the best people you can possibly attract and afford who will be the reliable building blocks of dynamic high-performance teams. Diversify Your Vision: One key to succeeding in this regard...

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10 Jul Communicate to Influence: Avoid 7 Major Talking Traps

Posted at 10:02h in Career Success, Communication, Corporate Culture, Leadership by Sarah Hathorn 0 Comments

Unprofessional communication can throw your fast track career into reverse faster than you can say “oops.” That’s why I like to warn my clients to beware of what I call the seven deadly sins of communication. 1) Loose Tongues Lose Credibility If you wouldn’t say it...

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03 Jul Influential Communication for Informal Situations

Posted at 10:31h in Career Acceleration, Career Success, Communication, Executive Presence, Influence, Leadership by Sarah Hathorn 0 Comments

I recently enrolled a new client who asked for tips on how to communicate value during informal, off-the-cuff conversations. Her question totally resonated with me, because early in my career I used short, casual interactions to promote my qualifications and land my first dream job. You...

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19 Jun 12 Leadership Lessons from Dad to Help Me Play a Bigger Game

Posted at 16:36h in Career Success, Communication, Executive Presence, Leadership, Leadership Mindset by Sarah Hathorn 0 Comments

My dad attended seminary at Columbia University at a time when many of the great theologians of the 20th century emerged. Later on, as a minister in charge of his own large congregation, he was a rather prominent public figure in town and was continually...

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08 May How to Flip the Internal Easy Switch

Posted at 14:49h in Career Success, Communication, Executive Presence, Leadership by Sarah Hathorn 0 Comments

Do you have areas in your life or work where you feel chronic resistance on the path to success and productivity? If so, that’s usually your intuition telling you that the real source of the problem is your mindset. But don’t despair because that’s good...

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08 May Adding Fluency to Your Body Language

Posted at 10:00h in Communication, Professional Image by Sarah Hathorn 0 Comments

Effective leadership relies on effective communication, but many leaders focus only on verbal forms of expression while overlooking nonverbal signals. But as body language expert Carol Goman points out, people can send nearly 1,000 different nonverbal signals during a 30-minute negotiation. So I thought it...

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01 May Leadership Communication to Address Performance Problems

Posted at 10:00h in Career Acceleration, Career Success, Communication, Executive Presence, Leadership by Sarah Hathorn 0 Comments

I get phone calls all the time from amazingly powerful, intelligent, and talented senior executives who can manage multi-million dollar businesses and dozens of people. But when they have to do a relatively simple face-to-face with a valued employee about a touchy performance issue they...

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17 Apr 4 Tips for Managing Your Boss

Posted at 10:00h in Career Success, Communication, Corporate Culture, Leadership by Sarah Hathorn 0 Comments

These four tips will help you become a better “boss manager” so that you can avoid unwanted problems and encourage a more cooperative, productive, and satisfying working relationship. Mimic their methods. Each of us has our own style when it comes to digesting information, expressing ourselves,...

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10 Apr Body Talk Business-Speak

Posted at 14:33h in Career Success, Communication, Professional Image by Sarah Hathorn 0 Comments

What if you found out that someone was constantly chattering on about you at the office to undermine your chance at a promotion? Now hear this: unmanaged body language does exactly that. The wrong body talk silently inflicts more damage to your professional presence...

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