Deborah Grayson Riegel is a keynote speaker and consultant who teaches leadership communication for Wharton Business School and Columbia Business School. The author of Overcoming Overthinking: 36 Ways to Tame Anxiety for Work, School, and Life, she consults and speaks for clients including Amazon, BlackRock, Bloomberg, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, and The United States Army. You can download her free guide "25 Questions To Dramatically Improve Your Relationships at Work."
U.S. companies spend more than $100 billion per year training employees. Here’s how to actually make that training stick
Training programs are a significant investment for companies. According to the Training Industry report, U.S. training expenditures surpass $100 billion.
How to be a more vulnerable leader—even when it makes you uncomfortable
By ruling out vulnerability as a way to show up personally and interpersonally, many leaders loose out on its benefits.
Layoffs can cause fear and grief. Here’s how teams can process those feelings using Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry focuses on leveraging an individual’s, team’s, or organization's core strengths. This approach can help your team process layoffs.
Stop avoiding conflict and start advocating for yourself
Important changes in mindset are required to once and for all push past the issues that are holding you—or your company—back.
When your open-door policy is bad leadership
It takes a wide range of helpful practices to truly empower your teams for success, this leadership communication expert says.
5 ways to respond when your performance review makes no sense
With year-end reviews underway, here's what to do—and what not to do—if you think your boss is wrong.
5 biases that might be ruining your hybrid meetings
Hybrid meetings introduce potential pitfalls that can prevent everyone from feeling engaged and included.
How to figure out if you have a problem delegating—and what to do about it
Many managers need to work on this important skill, which not only reduces your workload but also makes your team stronger.
Presentation Lessons from Improv Comedy: 5 Tips to Plan What You Say Before You Open Your Mouth
When I was a sophomore at the University of Michigan (Go Blue!), my friends Wendy, Dave, Tom, Matt, Mike and I founded the school’s first improvisational comedy troupe. We had performed sketch and stand-up comedy before this – where everything was scripted – so changing our approach from a prepared routine to extemporaneous, fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants, created in the moment comedy was a big shift for us.
“No Questions, Please!” The 8 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself to Ace Your Next Q&A
One of my favorite cartoons from the New Yorker shows a speaker at a podium with the caption, “I will now fend off questions from the audience.” Why does that make me chuckle? Because most of us, when making a presentation, regard the Q&A portion as a war zone. We want to make our presentation (and I realize that “want” may be an overstatement for some) and get the heck out of there without pesky inquiries that threaten to show the holes in our logic, the gaps in our preparation, or the spaces between our areas of expertise.
3 Strategies For Managing Life’s Many Big (And Small) Transitions
It's hard to say goodbye to something familiar and comforting--be it a computer, schedule, or home--for something new. Use these tips to make change happen more happily.
The Crucial Body Part All Great Leaders Must Enhance
Nope, we're not talking about your heart. Listen up: Here are three ways to better use that most important collection of cartilage--the ear.
3 Ways To Get More Out Of–Or Just Get Out Of–Your Next Meeting
Chances are, more than a third of you day is spent in meetings. Most of them are laborious, sucking away precious time and energy. Here are a few tips for keeping meetings efficient and satisfying.
3 Ways To Tackle Your Procrastination Problem
Even Charlie Brown recognized his own problem with procrastination. Here are a few tricks even kids can understand to stop putting things off and be more efficient.
How To Bounce Back Stronger After You Blow It At Work
Three strategies to manage disappointment when it shows up. Because, for better or for worse, it will.
3 Strategies For Managing Public Speaking Anxiety
It doesn’t matter if you’re presenting to two people or to two thousand people: When presentation anxiety strikes, you need some strategies to get you out of your own head and on to the stage with confidence, polish, and professionalism.
The Problem With Your Elevator Pitch–And How To Fix It
Five tips to dropping the phony facade and elevating your pitch so that you sound like a real person instead of a marketing automaton.
