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Why You Should Calibrate Difficult Conversations with Your Team

At times, I've avoided difficult conversations; other times I've been overly eager. Calibrating the conversation is what's most important.

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Good communication has the power to set the foundation for a project to either consistently thrive or to create a bottleneck.

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All questions aren't equal. Understanding when, where, what, and to whom to direct questions is an important skill to develop.

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The Liked Best/Next Time framework is a tool learned at a ZingTrain seminar. I've found it's similar to a team retrospective conversation.

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Mindfulness is the deliberate choice to bring your focus to the present moment and situation, rather than running on autopilot.

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Conversations tend to disappear into a black hole on platforms like Slack. Having them in the open, wisely, can help everyone around them.

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Directness isn't blunt — it's respect. Learn why executives value transparency about what you're optimizing for hedged recommendations.

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Executives don't need more slides. They need signal through noise. Learn pattern matching and the inverted pyramid approach to storytelling.

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I use a simple formula for meeting invites that helps everyone show up prepared, confident, and clear about why they’re there.

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When we tailor our communication to stakeholders, we build trust. Here are few stakeholder communication strategies.

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When a client hires you to build custom software, here's how you become not just a software consultant, but a true, trusted partner.

Effective communication

Technical troubleshooting isn’t just for Engineers! Here's how non-developers can help with effective troubleshooting.