By Yvonne Milosevic You can find tons of advice on the interwebs about how to improve your team’s brainstorming sessions. But until recently, we’ve missed one fundamental truth about how we tap into our most creative solutions. People often think their best ideas come early…
Embrace the pause. By Yvonne Milosevic It’s time to reconsider the so-called awkward silence. While a comfort level with silence varies by culture, the average pause in conversation is just one to two seconds among English speakers. But our urge to rush in and fill every…
By Yvonne Milosevic Now and then, getting ahead in your career requires some self-promotion. A bit of preening, if you will. Some of you may be thinking, “I’m totally down for letting the world know about my successes!” Meanwhile, others would rather gnaw off their…
By Yvonne Milosevic How many times did you laugh yesterday? Unfortunately, there’s a high chance the answer is either a little bit or not at all. That’s because, by age 23, our day-to-day experience with humor goes off a cliff. And we don’t recover it…