by Paul Quinn | Oct 10, 2024 | Asking - Business, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Workplace, Communication Skills
In an episode of the classic sitcom I Love Lucy, Lucy wants her husband, Ricky, to ask his boss. Mr. Littlefield, for a raise. Ricky dreads the idea. Lucy invites him to rehearse his “ask” with her, as if she were his boss. In the role play, the reluctant...
by Paul Quinn | Sep 12, 2024 | Asking - Law Enforcement, Asking - Workplace, Communication Skills, Integrity
From 1971-2003 TV audiences tuned in to Columbo, a show named for its fictional homicide investigator, played by Peter Falk. Lieutenant Frank Columbo masked his sleuthing brilliance behind a rumpled, befuddled veneer. Suspects were disarmed by his brand of...
by Paul Quinn | Jan 24, 2023 | Asking - Business, Asking - Leadership, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Workplace, Presentation Skills
One afternoon many years ago, after hours of coaching McDonald’s corporate presenters for a company-wide conference, I stepped out to grab some lunch. It had been a full morning of back-to-back rehearsals at the company’s Chicago-area headquarters. And it...
by Paul Quinn | Sep 30, 2022 | Asking - Health, Asking - Leadership, Asking - Relationships, Asking - Workplace, Communication Skills, Healthcare, Work-Related Stress
Charity Cox-Hayden is chief nursing officer for Atlas Healthcare Partners, LLC, an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) development and management company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona with surgery centers in Phoenix, Tucson, and Northern Colorado. She and I recently...
by Paul Quinn | May 17, 2022 | Asking - Business, Asking - Cultural Attitudes, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Social Impact, Asking - Workplace
A few years ago, after I gave a talk at Northeastern Illinois University on the subject of asking as a life skill, a student of Asian descent raised his hand and asked if I had any stories in my book from Asian people (at the time I didn’t). When I said no, he...
by Paul Quinn | May 16, 2022 | Asking - Business, Asking - Workplace
It sounds like a riddle: How do you know to ask for important information when you don’t know there’s important information to ask for? Most of us trust that the information we’ll need to navigate a new situation will be helpfully volunteered if it’s not obvious...
