The power is within your grasp to transform the quality of meetings in your organization. Earn the reputation of being someone who convenes interesting, productive and effective meetings – starting today.

When it comes to great meetings, the true measure of success comes with converting commitments to action. There are three steps to making that happen.

The success or failure of a meeting is determined in large part by how it is facilitated. The person in the hot seat has a tremendous responsibility. Far too often, they don’t get it right.

There’s a saying that a meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. Get ready to break out of that rut and reclaim your time and productivity!

Want to master a new skill? There’s a formula for that. Here it is: Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

What’s the best course of action when it feels like you’re going through hell? Keep moving! This article provides insights on how you can do so.

Millennials now occupy managerial positions, and they’re pretty ambivalent about that. As one female executive put it, “we feel like kids with adult jobs.”

Any journey of learning and development can be an emotional rollercoaster. With these four steps, you can effectively navigate that treacherous terrain.

Whether you’re the head of the organization, or a supervisor/manager with responsibility for a major department or a member of line staff, coaching is something that you should be thinking about.

“I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.” Can you relate to that statement?

One of the keys to success is establishing mutual respect in your relationship with your boss. This article outlines three nuggets to help you do just that.

Learn how to make difficult people disappear – legally.

This 5 step plan could be just what you need to redesign the job you’re in into the one you want.

High Stakes Negotiation In June 2004, I was appointed as Antigua and Barbuda’s Non-Resident Ambassador to several Latin American countries. Among my assigned portfolio was Brazil. As a congratulatory gift, a colleague commissioned a special lapel pin for me. It consisted of the intertwined flags of the two countries. He was thoughtful and kind enough

One rainy Friday morning, I decided to do a YouTube workout rather than hitting the highway for the four-mile walk that I had originally planned for that day.  I settled on a HASfit video.  I chose that video because it promised a full body resistance band workout – sounded like just the thing I needed

During a quiet moment of reflection have you ever thought “I know that our team has the potential to excel, but we’re not there yet? What can I do to help take our performance to the next level?” Management performance is one of the key determinants of success factors such as profitability, employee engagement and

Greetings from UTDS Publishing – the new division in the UTDS family. We hope that you, your family, friends, and colleagues are well in these unprecedented times. What’s new with me? I am delighted to share that I have finished my long-awaited book and will be launching it in December – just in time for

For a coaching relationship to be optimally effective, rapport must exist between the coach and the coachee. This article provides the concrete steps required to establish and maintain such a bond.

From Fortune 500 companies to individual managers and executives, all are reporting outstanding returns on investment. In this article we explain what exactly business coaching is and, perhaps more importantly, what it isn’t.

While there have been some gains in terms of the prevalence of women in leadership over the past 5 years, it hasn’t been a clear win.

To succeed in creating the future, we must also excel in letting go of the past: selectively forgetting practices and attitudes that stand in the way of the new future.  Vijay Govindarajan While in secondary school, I was required to read the story of Sir Thomas Moore as captured in the book titled A Man

What you tell yourself every day will either lift you up or tear you down. Choose wisely.