As a consultant, I constantly hear business leaders and entrepreneurs complain about the communication they have with their employees. “How can I get them to understand what I am saying? Why don’t they get it, Rick?” I can’t tell you how often I hear that. But what my clients fail to understand is, that the key to effective communication goes far beyond what we say in a meeting or type out in an email. It is both verbal and physical. If you want people to “see” what you are s

Someone once said to me that to be an effective leader you had to have at least seven distinct abilities. Interesting. How could you pin down the number to seven, but after listening to their thoughts and reading some recommended articles, I found that there were indeed seven basic elements of being a good leader. One leadership skill, in addition to being charismatic and smart was the ability to get and give (transfer) information. I find that if I could not communicate effe