Skillfully Navigating Workplace Drama

The word drama gets tossed about regularly these days.  Nobody wants it and yet, like rubbernecking the scene of an accident on the highway, most of us have a hard time looking away.  When we get too close to a person acting out their drama it can be quite easy to get sucked in and … Read more

Identifying Communication Filters

In promotion of the release of the Peanuts Movie two years ago, 20th Century Fox put a voice-changing machine on their website where you could record and phrase and it would convert it to sound like the “wha, wha, wha” voice of Charlie Brown’s teacher. I’d link the page here, but sadly they have taken … Read more

Nice or Kind?

Many parents tell their children to be nice to friends or siblings. That’s good training, but what does it mean to be nice? On the surface it seems we are asking children to be polite and not mistreat others. Often, however, nice implies that I act in a way that pleases the other person. The … Read more