Pause Before Reacting: A Key to Professional Success

Learn the crucial strategy of pausing before reacting in the fast-paced, high-pressure workplace. Discover how this simple practice can enhance your professional interactions, foster a respectful work environment, and build a positive reputation. Embrace the power of the pause for career success.

Listen to Understand, Not Just to Respond

In this article Kathy explains the importance of listening to understand to enhance your relationships and establish you as a thoughtful and considerate professional.

Communicating effectively with your stakeholders

Businesswoman communicating effectively with stakeholders

This article provides advice on communicating effectively with your stakeholders. The focus is on what to communicate and why. Your communication style is another dimension of communicating effectively that will be covered in a later article.

Communicating effectively with your team

This article provides advice on communicating effectively with your team. The focus is on what to communicate and why. Your communication style is another dimension of communicating effectively that will be covered in a later article. When you are reading this, I recommend that you consider the advice given from the perspective that you are […]

Communicating effectively with your boss

It doesn’t matter where you sit in an organisation’s hierarchy. How well you communicate with your boss directly impacts perceptions of your performance and your level of success or otherwise. Key reasons for you to foster regular, open and transparent, two-way communication with your boss include: You can’t lead your people if you don’t know […]