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We! Connect Cards App and Spanish Edition Announcement
I’m thrilled to let you know that you can now get a box of We! Connect Cards in Spanish! We’re really excited for you to be able to check these out. They’re the same great connection-building questions that you’ve been using for years—just en español. We have a...
How To Create Humor In Conversations
Laughter is medicine, right? It can connect us. It releases tension. Strengthens our abs. So...how can we inject humor into conversations? "Oh Chad, you don't understand. I'm sooo, so not funny." To that, I say "LOL." Disclaimer: Watching this video does NOT...
Quick And Unique 60 Second Icebreaker Activity
What makes a conversation "matter"? Is it the depth of sharing? The topic? Or can you have a meaningful conversation about something as trivial as the brand of toothpaste you use? This week's video features a quick exercise that is especially powerful for...
Need To Boost Morale On Your Team? | Try THIS!
Your team might be running on fumes, but you can help them pick back up! It’s been a jam-packed couple of years. We’re all tired, we’re worn out, and most of us feel like we’re still having too many meetings. (Psst… check out last week's video to help make turn...
How To Be Interesting
What do you think is more important? To be interested—or to be interesting? You can actually answer that and see everyone else's response right here. My answer to this question in today’s video might surprise you. I hope you choose to spend 7 minutes and 51 seconds...
How To Make Boring Topics More Interesting
Turn the mundane memorable! Look around at the next meeting or training you are attending—or leading. What do you see? Are your team members engaged, leaning forward, taking notes, participating in the session? Or are you more likely to see people fighting to stay...
How To Improve Remote Communication Asynchronously
It was 66° and sunny yesterday where I live in Pittsburgh, PA. And after a long winter, the last place I wanted to be was on Zoom—even though I like thinking about How to Make Virtual Engagement Easy quite a bit. Pandemic or no pandemic, the world will always work and...
3 Group Activities To Keep Virtual Fresh
At this point, we’re all (perhaps a bit too) familiar with virtual meetings. Your team is quite possibly burned out by them. They might even feel like they’re going to pull their hair out if they get. One. More. Calendar. Invite! But you can hit "refresh" on all the...
Smart Leaders Do This
Have you hit a learning plateau? Have you even noticed? Don’t duck under your desk—it’s ok. It tends to happen to all of us once we get to a certain point in our leadership roles. But while It’s ok, you should try to push past it. Hitting that learning plateau can...
These 3 Questions Spark Action
Have you been around kids recently? How many questions did you answer during that time? 300? 400? 1,000? Now think about your own (presumably adult) self. How many questions do you ask in a day? Probably not as many. Maybe a cool dozen. And how many of those questions...
This Meeting Should Have Been An Email
Look around at your next meeting. Who’s truly engaged? How many people are subtly checking their email, scrolling through social media, or maybe even trying to sneak-watch the latest episode of Ted Lasso? Now try to add up all the productivity and salary dollars that...
How To Stop Polarizing
One of the smartest people I know, Matt Church, said this to me once, and frankly, it stopped me in my tracks. Third option? What third option? What did this mean, and how was I supposed to use this idea to stretch my comfort zone and find the middle? Right now, we’re...
2 Words To Foster Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential ingredients for creating a high-performing culture of connection, belonging, and trust. But ... very tangibly ... how do we do it? To answer that, I'm bringing in the one and only, Meg Bolger, co-founder of the Safe Zone...
How To “Manage Up”?
Vacuums come with a user guide, but why don't people? “How do I manage up?” is one of the most frequent questions I hear from people. In other words, "how can I lead when I'm not in a position of leadership?" Everyone knows that they need to “manage up”, but very few...
Connection Toolkit Coaching Clinic
I just facilitated an informal "Coaching Clinic" session with 10 amazing leaders based in Taiwan. After the session, I asked the group how they felt about handing off the recording of our conversation to my editing team to make a video with some of the golden nuggets....
How To Give And Receive Feedback At Work
Studies have shown that people prefer hearing corrective criticism over straight positive criticism. However, they’ve also shown that we don’t like giving feedback at all, whether constructive or positive. And because of that, we put it off. We have a tendency to only...
How To Empower Employees To Improve Performance
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” This quote from Aristotle was the inspiration for the title of a project Google embarked on a few years ago to answer the question – “What makes a team effective?” And while Google was specifically looking at their own...
How To Connect With Anyone In 60 Seconds
Time is precious. And limited. So how can we connect quickly—but meaningfully—with our coworkers, clients, students, friends, or even family? Promising this in 60 seconds sounds like a bold claim. But it's true. You'll love the story about "the Yankees guy" I share in...