Sublime

After you have bonded with your audience by saying something nice about them, answer the questions about you that have been raised in their minds. Who are you and why are you qualified to speak to them?

never to publicly admonish people in a way that would diminish their dignity.

Introduce yourself.

Every morning, people get together in their teams for a quick meeting called “good or new,” a sort of check-in for the day. Within each team, a doll is passed around, like a talking stick, and whoever has the doll can share either something new (news from something they are working on, noteworthy news they might have read in the paper when

He was enthusiastic and ready to tackle what was ahead. I was feeling compassion for him though I knew the very next thing we should address would be Nate, a friend he considered loyal and an employee he allowed to be unaccountable and untouchable until now. It was time to meet Nate face-to-face, and address what should no longer be ignored. Would

Authority and power. Who has high and low power in this situation? How

course, instead of a boss doing the appraisal, they put in place peer-based systems: At

peer recognition

Erin Meyer is an author and researcher who’s done a lot to map out the ways in which cultures differ, which in turn helps us negotiate them.