Skip to content

Year: 2014

Talk your way to the top

People with strong conversational intelligence have the power to connect and build trust, says Judith Glaser, author of Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust & Get Extra­­ordinary Results. She offers five ways to improve your conversational-intelligence skills.

Make productive connections over coffee

Let no one tell you that a coffee meeting must end in a caffeine-dazed, unproductive parting of ways. In fact, 99u’s Sean Blanda writes that a coffee meeting can be a power­­ful way to make a connection and accomplish some real work. The catch is you have to mean business.

Guarantee about 12″ x 18″ of bliss

Try designating exactly one of your desk drawers as your happy place, and fill it only with the snacks you like most, the photos you love, your best music CDs, etc.—no tools of productivity allowed! It’s nice to have a tiny perfect retreat, a magical spot always guaranteeing a little workday happiness.