
It’s Never Too Late to Follow Up
Almost everybody is bad at following up, myself included. These days there are too many emails, social media messages, texts, and phone calls to respond to. Even worse, most big companies have eliminated executive assistants so people’s precious spare work time is...

Robert’s Rules of Order in Action: How to Participate in Meetings with Confidence by Randi Minetor
I've always known that Robert’s Rules of Order are used to run a meeting, but I never thought about what that meant until a couple of weeks ago when I went to my first HOA meeting, which was a train wreck. It started with an invitation to the meeting in a giant office...

Your Pitching Secret Weapon – the Project Cocktail Pitch
The project cocktail pitch is a short powerful way to pitch in any situation from cocktail parties to business meetings. How do you talk about your projects in a compelling and entertaining way? First, remember that pitching is selling, not...

What the heck is a cocktail pitch? And why do I need one?
You are at a cocktail party and someone asks you the dreaded question – what do you do? As you mumble something, his eyes glaze over and he starts looking over your shoulder for someone else to talk to. He wanders off and you wish you were home watching Netflix with...