By Carolyn Crawford This is a summary of some key communications themes from the book “Virtual Teams That Work” Edited by Cristina Gibson and Susan Cohen (http://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Teams-That-Work-Effectiveness/dp/0787961620 ). It’s an extremely th ...
Influencing and Presentation Confidence: Sports psychology for communicators
By Carolyn Crawford I don’t think anyone falls into corporate training or coaching for a living unless they have at least a passing interest in psychology. My interest has journeyed over the years from a curiosity about the impact of our upbringing an ...
Influencing skills: How to network with busy people
As far as I can see, absolutely nothing beats this 12 part blog from Personal Development author Steve Pavlina, on the topic of professional networking. It’s thorough, frank and packed with well articulated old and new ideas. You can read it in ...
Facilitation skills: Conference calls
By Carolyn Crawford According to a 2004 survey from Raindance Communications: 90% of people multitask while on conference calls; 70% do unrelated work emails, texts and instant messaging; and a bunch of folk are eating, muting to have side co ...