There is a little, unpublicized feature on your phone called Do Not Disturb where you can block emails coming into you during specific intervals or ad-hoc. I never knew about it until my daughter started to use it because her phone would keep dinging all night long. Now I use it between 10pm and 6am. This doesn’t mean I don’t get the message, I do and sometimes, by force of a horrible habit, I check…

Generally, when speaking or presenting, we ask the audience to ask questions. As a presenter, you WANT and even NEED them to ask questions. It’s a bit of validation into what you have probably just invested an insurmountable amount of time and energy in, in making this presentation, to get some feedback and generate discussion. If you don’t want your question/answer period to end at 1 question to do the following; Think about the question…

Whether it is SLACK, the kitchen, the water cooler, the meeting room, the couch by the doorway, Jeff’s desk or maybe even your Dining Room table (that has been missing for way too long), it’s important to have that communal place – whether virtual or physical – where everyone goes to relax, recharge, rethink and regroup. It doesn’t have to be elaborate, you don’t need leather chairs and a keg.  It can be as simple…

Remember the reason why you were not willing to switch from your Blackberry to the new iPhone or Android phone years ago? Remember the reason you kept holding on until the very end because you thought you’d be getting all those new goodies that the next generation of smartphones had? Take a second and think about it – what was really holding you back. Now take a look at your phone du jour – iPhone…