The Potential Equation Blog

How to Use Impactful Listening to Your Advantage

With so much focus on presenting and outward communication in business, it’s rare we ever turn the conversation toward ourselves and our ability to listen. However, most experts will argue that listening is an even more important skill, and the ultimate key to success...

Simple Strategies for Keeping Your Best People

Like many of you, I’ve witnessed my fair share of employee turnover over the course of my career. Sometimes the departing employee was a manager, worked alongside me or was a member of my team. Although some resignations were a blessing, in most cases, the person was...

How to Cultivate Self-Awareness in the People You Work With

I was recently invited to observe a corporate simulation at a university in New York. First-year MBA students were each assigned an executive role within a fictional company. The goal of the simulation was to increase the company’s stock price. I quickly recognized...