This cast describes a simple way to handle the interviewing question, "What's your location preference?"

Many people lose great job opportunities because they don't know how to talk about WHERE they want to work without scaring the recruiter. There's a right way to do it. It's okay to prefer a certain location ... but you've also got to reassure the recruiter that your choice isn't ONLY about location.

This cast describes effective ways to provide references when asked.

Your directs and former directs are going to ask you to provide them references. Yet you've probably heard that providing references is generally frowned upon. More and more, HR says you can't. But you can.

This cast explains a simple technique to consider the impact of decisions on multiple stakeholders.

Decision-making (which is more than choosing!) is a core part of our jobs as managers. But yet again, there's not a lot of training or development spent on it. Everyone hates learning it on their own, but then they visit that same strategy on their directs. Silly. Let's learn how to make effective decisions.

This cast shows how to facilitate the capture of Ground Rules when starting a meeting.

Finally we return to discussing presentations! Both Mark and Mike have recently been in the audience for professional presentations, and it was an eye opening experience for both of us. We think every manager -- and by definition if you're a manager, you have to assume you're going to be a presenter -- ought to have presentation training.

And we think we're the ones to do it. ;-)

This cast describes how to make a decision effective by NOT working on other actions or plans after you've decided.

Too many of us feel good about a "decision" we've made (when actually it was a choice, and not a decision), and then we mess up the "decision" by failing to act aggressively on it. And one of the things that keeps us from being successful is we don't focus on the path we've chosen.