Building Personal Strength

Compliments. Praise. Recognition. Affirmation. Gratitude. Appreciation. Positive feedback. Positive strokes. Pats on the back. Good stuff!...

There are five people/communication skills that are so important to parenting a teenager that the failure to use any one of them - even ju...

I remember when I finished my first draft Conversations with the Wise Uncle . The storyline was inspired by a good friend of mine, who tol...

As I write this, I've been sharing my experiences and insights on this blog for about 2 years, with over 625 articles archived here. I t...

It's one thing to decide to a change a behavior pattern. It's another thing altogether to follow through, working on the new patte...

In my last post , I described a simple approach for giving effective positive feedback. But more often we're motivated to give constru...

Everything people do has an impact. But much of the time, they may not be aware of what that impact is. They may not realize that you genuin...

In many high-rise buildings, certain floors have a single tenant or facility, and the elevators that serve these floors have special securit...

The first book I ever read about people skills was Dr. Thomas Gordon's 1970 book P.E.T. , which stands for Parent Effectiveness Training...

“You can’t handle the truth!” shouts Marine colonel Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson) in the 1992 movie, “A Few Good Men.” The outburst comes w...

In 1994 my company introduced an innovative multi-source feedback system called 20/20 Insight . It was used by over a million people in virt...

On this blog, I write a lot about people skills and personal strengths. My work is about helping people improve their skills and strengths, ...

I recently posted an article about what I believe is the number one people skill:  listening . Possibly the No. 2 people skill is giving fee...

As I said in my post on December 9th , I never did write the article exposing the "Dark Secret" of the training and development in...