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5 Tips to Avoid Confusion with Clear Communication

February 14, 2022 by Michael Hyatt

I once had a boss who rarely shared information and never in a timely way. My office happened to be in a different building than his, so getting to our weekly one-on-one meeting took a little effort. But not only did he cancel most of our meetings, he did so without notice. When we did […]

Filed Under: Leadership, Personal Development Tagged With: Clarity, Communication, leading teams, team communication

5 Steps for Healthy Confrontation

June 25, 2019 by Michael Hyatt

One of your most lucrative clients has admitted to unethical behavior and is entirely unwilling to change. Do you keep the account and tie your name to their misdealing? Or do you terminate the relationship and lose over a million dollars in sunk cost? Your top salesman is accused of inappropriate behavior toward team members […]

Filed Under: Lead to Win, Leadership Tagged With: Confrontation, team communication

Need Help? Here’s How to Ask for It

5 Tips for Rallying People to a Task

February 26, 2019 by Michael Hyatt

Leaders never have all the help they need. But most of us have an aversion to asking for it. It can feel awkward to ask for help But it doesn’t have to be!  We’ve got 5 simple tips that will enable you to get more help—for free. Use them in your business, and you’ll never […]

Filed Under: Lead to Win, Leadership Tagged With: help, Humility, Leadership, team communication

Why I Broke Up with Slack—And Went Back

The 3 Changes that Made It Work for Me and My Team Again

September 1, 2017 by Michael Hyatt

My team and I have been using Slack as our primary communication platform since June 2014. As we grew, email became unmanageable and other solutions like Basecamp weren’t a fit. After a full-immersion trial, we were sold! But then we unsold ourselves. It took three years. But, just as email didn’t scale with our growth, […]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: Slack, team, team communication

What the Success of Slack Can Teach Us about Creating Winning Products

November 21, 2014 by Michael Hyatt

What the Success of Slack Can Teach Us about Creating Winning Products

I love watching people succeed, especially if I can learn something I can apply in my own life and share with you. That’s why I’m excited about what I learned from watching Slack’s success this year. Slack is a communications tool that enables natural and effective team collaboration. The company, started by Stewart Butterfield, the […]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: collaboration, Communication, email, Slack, team communication

How I Cut My Email Load by 83% in Less Than a Week

June 16, 2014 by Michael Hyatt

Slack on a Laptop

Lousy communications is one of the biggest challenges any team faces. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve lost files, even whole conversation threads, in email. And no one likes triaging an inbox, even with a good system. So what if we had a better solution? We do, thanks to a team of online […]

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: conversations, email, Slack, team communication, workflow