
A 5-Minute Walk: The Simple Secret for Achieving Team Trust
Have you ever been angry at work? Maybe you yelled at somebody or you got yelled at by a colleague or even a manager? Yes, it happens in the workplace. Everyone gets angry or frustrated at one point or another and needs an outlet. However, as…

Turn Stress into a Crucial Business Advantage
“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” - Hans Selye, psychologist
With the constant challenge of balancing our personal and professional lives, stress has become a familiar companion.
According to the…

A Simple Skill To Help Leaders Improve Their Team Morale
Through my leadership coaching of CEO’s, Marketing and Sales Leaders, I have learned that forgetting to listen in a business environment is a reoccurring theme for many professionals. Often times it seems that extremely smart people suffer…

Four steps to provide effective performance feedback
Utilize performance appraisals as a tool for progress
A prevalent issue among managers is how they utilize performance appraisals as a tool to provide feedback, create higher engagement and enhance performance for employees.
Many managers…

5 “Executive Presence” Skills to Advance Your Career
Written by Maya Hu-Chan
One of my clients (we’ll call her Nancy) missed out on an important promotion recently. She sought feedback from the interview panel and was told the same thing several times. She had, they said, a “lack…

How to master cross cultural communication: know when "yes" means "no"
Written by Maya Hu-Chan
A trick question, right?
I am afraid not. This is a real issue for global business leaders and, every day, there are communication breakdowns occurring across the world as different cultural norms conspire to confuse…

Overcoming the Challenge of Leading Virtual Teams
Written by Maya Hu-Chan
The secret to building an effective virtual team?
With more and more companies working seamlessly across cultures and time zones I am often asked by clients what the secret is to building an effective virtual team.
The…

Why Leaders Need to "Stop Fighting the Fires" in Their Companies
Dedicated and over-worked
Most leaders are guilty of working too hard at one point or another in their career. Often classified as passionate and driven people, leaders frequently dedicate their entire life to their work. Although this dedication…

The Essence of Strategy
Business keeps moving faster...you better make time for strategy
There is a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. Strategy is about making unique choices. Operational effectiveness is about things that are…

Three Techniques to Develop a Positive Attitude
Experience is the best teacher. Unfortunately, having an experience does not guarantee learning from it.
From my personal experience, people with a positive attitude tend to have a strong learning mindset: they show curiosity, ask a lot of…