New York Times best selling author, Inc. 500 entrepreneur, and LEADx founder Kevin Kruse interviewed G. Riley Mills for the second time. LEADx provides business professionals with insight and knowledge for achieving your potential. In this short, but powerful podcast, Gary discussed giving feedback, leadership communication, and successful interviewing tips. And it all comes back to objective and […] Read More...

Maestro Schulz has devoted his life to mastering classical music – understanding the composer’s intention and conveying it collaboratively with an orchestra so the audience feels it. A disciple of legendary conductors Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, and Sir Georg Solti, Maestro Schulz has lead some of the world’s most renowned orchestras. The talent, expertise, […] Read More...

You’ll never guess the number one job skill lacking in the U.S., according to LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. Drum roll please! The answer: communication skills. During a recent interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Weiner said, “Not surprisingly, there continues to be an imbalance with regards to software engineers. But somewhat surprisingly, some people may not […] Read More...

Teddy Roosevelt once said, “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” Hate to sound like a broken record, but if you want to increase employee engagement, improve your manager’s communication skills. If you want to increase profits, improve your manager’s communication skills. If you […] Read More...

The ability to communicate with purpose and clarity and purpose is the key to personal and professional success. Effective communication is not something that happens easily though. Without a firm grasp of the elements needed to be a good communicator, there is no guarantee it will happen at all. Our new book, The Bullseye Principle, […] Read More...

There are several things that make communication and interpersonal skills excellent, but for this post, we’ll focus on a big one: listening. As a manager or leader, listening is particularly important because it can help increase employee engagement. “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” -unknown To […] Read More...

Great leaders are great communicators. That doesn’t just mean they’re great orators though. By definition, communication is “a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior,” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The key word here is exchange. Consider the most basic communication model defined by Osgood […] Read More...

Everything we do communicates something to our audience. Words are important, but they are the tip of the iceberg. The delivery, particularly our nonverbal communication, often communicates more. That’s because our bodies are billboards, sending messages out into the world, and our audience constantly reads and interprets them, for better or for worse. Allan and […] Read More...

In our last post, Barriers to Communication Part One, we highlighted jargon, attention spans and distractions, differences in perception/viewpoint, and physical disabilities, as barriers to communication. In this post, we’ll focus on physical barriers, language differences, and bias. Physical barriers to non-verbal communication (The environmental and natural conditions that make it difficult to see non-verbal cues, gestures, […] Read More...

In today’s global economy, there are several barriers to communication in the workplace. As communicators, we must work harder to ensure our message is received and acted upon. While we spend most of our day communicating, sending messages is only half the communication equation. The other half involves the recipient’s ability to accurately interpret and […] Read More...