True Insights #29 Convincing the Boss
One of the most common challenges people bring up in leadership training is the difficulty of convincing upper management to listen to…
True Insights #28 4 Ways to Optimize Your Learning
Dear Friends, When friends in career development consulting interviewed me in LinkedIn Live event last year, they asked me how to use…
True Insights #27 A Small Shift that Immediately Improves any Relationship
Dear Friends, We all know that human relationships are dynamic. They ebb and flow. They can be fragile. The wrong message, delivered…
True Insights #26 Give Your Presentations a Huge Boost with One Simple Technique
Dear Friends, Given the increase in the complexity of our world and the increase in workloads over the past year, I am…
True Insights #25 The Power of Mechanisms
Dear Friends, I have worn a Buddha bead bracelet like this one on my right wrist for the past 10 years. It…
True Insights #24 Centeredness
Dear Friends, In leadership development programs and coaching sessions, we often discuss the topic of how to inspire team members. If you’ve…
True Insights #23 The Simple Power of Mindfulness
Dear Friends, In our coaching sessions and workshops at True Development, the topic of mindfulness often comes up. Mindfulness is one of…
True Insights #22 The Thing About Resilience
Dear Friends, 2020 will go down in history as a year of intense challenge and hardship. I also think 2020 will be…
True Insights #21 The Opposite Effect
True Insights＃21 The Opposite Effect Dear Friends, I hope you and the people in your circle are well at this unusual and [...]
True Insights #20 How to Change
True Insights #20 How to Change Dear Friends, During this time of uncertainty and challenge, our hearts go out to the people—many [...]
True Insights #19: The Right Decision
Dear Friends, A few months ago I had the opportunity to coach several leaders in consecutive one on one sessions. It was [...]
True Insights #18: The Power of a Weekly Reflection
Dear Friends, Over the past six months I have focused a lot of my energy on learning. Part of this is motivated…
True Insights #17 The Gift of Feedback
Dear Friends, I recently worked with a group of leaders in a leadership communication workshop. One of the activities involved standing and…
True Insights #16 The Best Leader I Know
Dear Friends, Over the years I’ve met many leaders across a wide range of ages, cultural backgrounds, languages, experience levels, and levels [...]
True Insights #15 Empathy as a Weapon
Dear Friends, In an effort to make True Insights more useful, we’re changing to a more concise format and increasing the focus…
True Insights #14 The Positive No
Dear Friends, Like many of you, we have just returned from the Chinese New Year holiday. I hope it was a time…
True Insights #13 Battle of the Brains
Dear Friends, Happy New Year! I hope 2018 is a fantastic year for you, your loved ones, and your colleagues. In 2017…
True Insights #12 Accountable Children and Adults
Dear Friends, A few weeks ago my wife and I attended Parents Day at our daughter’s elementary school. Our daughter’s homeroom teacher…
True Insights #11 The Boss’s Emotions
Dear Friends, I hope the summer of 2017 was a happy one for you and the people you care about. My family…
True Insights #10 Why, “WHY” ?
Dear Friends, Happy Year of the Rooster! 2016 was a good year for True Development. As Training Director at True Development, I am…
True Insights #9 Develop Your Way to Success
Dear Friends, My first job after graduating from my MBA program at the end of 1993 was a territory manager position with…
True Insights #8 On Feedback: Some Notes from the Field
Dear Friends, I hope you are well. True Development has grown dramatically since I last wrote and we find ourselves happily engaged…
True Insights #7 Who WANTS to Be at Work? On Employee Engagement
Have you ever stood outside of a large office building in the morning and observed the body language of people as they…
True Insights #6 Ethical, Smart Influence
Dear Friends, Happy New Year from True Development! We hope 2015 is your best year ever! Now, I have a question for…
True Insights #5 Value from Creativity Part 2
Dear Friends, In our last True Insights we provided a clear definition of creativity and innovation, and described the types of thinking that support truly creative…
True Insights #4 Generating Value from Creativity
Dear Friends, I hope you are enjoying a rewarding summer at work and the chance to take a little vacation time. In the…
True Insights #3 Motivation
Dear Friends, As we enjoy the beautiful spring season in so many places around the world, I’d like to share some insights…
True Insights #2 Peak Performance Every Day
Happy Year of the Horse! Dear Friends, In my work I often discover useful resources (books, articles, videos, techniques, tools, and programs)…
True Insights #1 Getting Things Done
Merry Christmas! Dear Friends, In my work I often discover useful resources (books, articles, videos, techniques, tools, and programs) that I share…