Last week I spent 5 days in South Haven, Michigan with a group of my closest friends. We have been vacationing near Lake Michigan for 12...

“… one is silver and the other’s gold” – are lines from a song I learned long ago as a Girl Scout. Good advice, especially when attending...

LinkedIn, Twitter, webinars, and conference calls are all essential tools to keep connected in today’s workplace. In spite of these...

Your mouth goes dry. Your skin flushes. You break out in a sweat. Your knees knock. Your heart races. You can’t catch your breath. You...

What's so great about smiling? Smiling is one of the quickest, easiest, cheapest, and most effective self-improvement strategies there...

I venture that outside of formal school I have learned more around a table sharing meals with others than in any other single place. I’ve...

If isolation and loneliness are making us less healthy and shortening our lives, we need to find ways to form stronger human connections. Sharing meals has been considered an opportunity for social interaction from the beginning of recorded history. In all cultures throughout the world, food and eating connect people. Consider this: the word companion means “with bread” in Latin. Companions eat together.

Teams with these 6 characteristics will succeed.

Most of us have probably omitted important steps in the communication design process due to a “lack of resources” and later regretted it. I know I have. I’ve also learned there’s a better way. I have compiled 5 smart shortcuts that can streamline the design process without shortchanging the result.

This afternoon, my husband and oldest son, along with 12 other adventurers, are taking off from Indiana to drive more than 20 hours to...

On Monday, August 21st, our nation collectively looked skyward to witness the moon eclipsing the sun. We watched the event unfold through...

This week at my local Toastmasters meeting I stepped way outside my comfort zone… I gave my first ever humorous speech. I shared the...

Let’s meet 10 of them: Starting with Miss Understanding, when what you said and what I thought you said are NOT the same. Much like the...

Successful communication creates a sharing of ideas and feelings between the communicator and the audience.

Effective nutrition communication is not an accident, but is strategically designed. It is the result of making a plan, working the plan,...

Just 2 years ago I was finishing work on an introductory textbook titled Nutrition for Everyone (Resources). At the time, writing… and...

You can learn the skills to be a great communicator.