by Rebecca Morgan | Mar 15, 2019 | Developing People, Management Training
In my family caustic teasing was de rigueur. We would be teased about anything the teaser thought was funny, no matter how humiliating, and with no thought to how it would leave the receiver feeling. Didn’t do well on a test? You’d be teased about...
by Rebecca Morgan | Mar 14, 2019 | Developing People, Management Training
I’ve noticed a lot of people — maybe 90% — aren’t very conscious of their conversational habits. The most common habit I’ve noticed is no awareness of the relevance of what the speaker is saying to their conversational partner. I began to wonder how...
by Rebecca Morgan | Mar 13, 2019 | Developing People, Management Training
In the first chapter of Give and Take, author Adam Grant features Adam Rifkin, who was dubbed Fortune magazine’s Best Networker (he has the most LinkedIn connections to Fortune’s 640 most powerful people). I decided to invite him to connect on LinkedIn....
by Rebecca Morgan | Mar 12, 2019 | Developing People, Management Training
People I admire strive to become better as a partner, parent, child, friend, boss, coworker or human being. They are continually looking for ways to improve, whether for their relationships, or to create more effective habits for themselves. I’ve noticed three...
by Rebecca Morgan | Mar 11, 2019 | Developing People, Management Training
Photo: Rebecca Morgan, Chinese New Year lanterns, Hong Kong Identifying one’s “superpower” has become a hot topic. We are encouraged to identify where we excel. This is not always an easy task. Most of us are either oblivious to how we stand...
by Rebecca Morgan | Mar 5, 2019 | Developing People, Management Training
Have you ever been told you are difficult? When I’ve labeled someone difficult, they have been some of these: obstinate, uncooperative, inflexible, demanding, dictatorial undiplomatic, blunt, condescending, arrogant, caustic, hyper-critical, argumentative (often...