I love the quiet of the early mornings. One of my favorite things to do is wake up early, pour a cup of hot coffee, sit in a rocking chair on our front porch and just

Therefore, the most valuable person in most meetings today is not the person with all the details. The most valuable person today is the person who can

We have been having the same conversation over and over lately, with many different client companies. Many of our clients are looking closely into

Great communication requires a full toolbox of strong communication skills. And my colleagues and I can (and do) talk about such skills with our clients every day. But before we can fill up your toolbox with strong skills, we first need to lay the foundation of strong mindsets

Twice a week, The Latimer Group’s experienced facilitators deliver clear, succinct, and actionable lessons about business communication to tens of thousands of readers worldwide. Here’s the latest entry:

We do an enormous amount of writing here about how to prepare well, and not waste other people’s time… especially if that person is your boss. We all know how important it is to be able to communicate well to people above you on the org chart. But let’s flip that around for a moment.

Before you start your day, take a moment and walk with me… a quick, figurative one. I know you are busy and you have a lot to do today. Just a few minutes, is all I ask.

A great leader will find a balance between her or his own priorities, and the needs of the team. A great leader will have a range of styles and behaviors from which to draw depending on the situation. Here are some of things to strive for when leading and communicating with your team

Every organization is a dynamic organism, in a constant state of evolution… sometimes expanding, sometimes contracting, sometimes getting stronger, sometimes weaker. What an organization needs at any given moment is likely to

My colleagues and I coach people on their communication skills for a living… all day, every day, for the last 21+ years. And one of our biggest lessons learned over these last two decades is this:

in May 2002, right around the time I was launching The Latimer Group, I took some time to clear my head and enrolled in an eight-day desert survival course in Boulder, Utah. At the end of the journal, my final entry in fact, I wrote down three things that I learned from the experience.

My family and I just completed the trip of a lifetime: eight days rafting down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.. The intent of this trip was an amazing family experience in a stunning national park. But the impact of this trip went well beyond the experience itself.

When we communicate well in the workplace — when we get to the point, when we articulate value, when we make the point clearly — what we are really doing is

People are constantly evolving. As we grow, get older, and experience new things, the sum total of who we are is constantly changing. We are not the same people we were a year ago, two years ago, ten years ago. Because every experience,

My family and I were visiting my wife’s parents in central Mexico recently, when an extraordinary thing happened. We took our two children to a nearby playground, and there were lots of local children playing there

One of the most frequent debates that comes up in our workshops and coaching is this: “Sometimes I am not asking for anything, so there is no persuasion. Sometimes, it IS just an update.” And The Latimer Group’s standard reply to that question is

How often do you sit in a meeting, or on a conference call, or listen to a presentation, and feel disengaged within the first two to three minutes? Yep… me too. It usually takes speakers forever to simply

This is a blog about communication and leadership, and how to make ourselves more persuasive, and how to increase our presence and expand our credibility. And all of those things are vastly more powerful if we simply remember to…

We need to be thinking about doing more than just delivering information from point A to point B. Sharing or delivering information is fine. Providing our colleagues with a status update is important. But it is not nearly enough.

No one, and I mean NO ONE, leads ALL the time. At some point, we all need to know how to follow. And following is not a bad thing.