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Sports Conversation Starters For Your Workweek Mar 29, 2020

Do you find yourself craving the conversations you once took for granted?

Like the kind that happen when you bump into a colleague in the hallway, or...

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Practicing Leadership: Communicating With Remote Teams + What Talk Sporty to Me Is Doing Mar 24, 2020

“The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.” George Bernard Shaw

I couldn’t say it any better George.

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Mar 22, 2020

Life without live sporting events doesn’t mean we don’t have sports to talk about. There are still stories making headlines and an opportunity to take...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Mar 15, 2020

I never thought I'd write a weekly blog about sports conversation starters without a single sports event on the calendar, or while social distancing i...

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5 Ways to Keep Sports in Your Conversations (without sporting events) Mar 15, 2020

A week ago I was preparing to write an article about using sports conversations to maintain connections while offices started working remotely and “so...

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I'd Rather Talk About Something Else... 3 Steps to Controlling the Direction of a Conversation Mar 11, 2020

The hottest news topic isn’t always the one you want to talk about, even when it seems like that’s ALL anyone is talking about.

The coronavirus domin...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Mar 08, 2020

The topic dominating headlines isn’t always the best conversation starter.

I mean, how much more do you really want to talk about the coronavirus (An...

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ONLINE TRAINING: Stop Asking Stupid Questions Mar 07, 2020

The person who coined the phrase, “there’s no such thing as a stupid question” was either flat-out lying or unaware of all the stupid questions he/she...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Mar 01, 2020

All opportunities come through people.

It’s something I heard an NFL Agent tell a group of conference attendees at the NFL Combine during the weekend...

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Conversation Fail - More Information Isn't Better Feb 27, 2020

More isn’t better. Longer conversations don’t lead to better communication. Additional information doesn’t lead to better understanding.

Unnecessary ...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Feb 23, 2020

We lost power for two hours Sunday. It wasn’t a big deal, or even much of an inconvenience … although it did delay baking my blueberry coffee cake by ...

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Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek Feb 16, 2020

Stay interested to be interesting.

A friend reminded me of that phrase at dinner the other night.

For her it meant listening to different podcasts r...

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