Daneen Skube Ph.D.
Daneen Skube Ph.D. is director of interpersonal edge, (www.interpersonaledge.com), a firm that gives companies and individuals the interpersonal advantage at work. Skube has been writing her column "Working Connections" for The Seattle Times since 1994. It is syndicated as "Interpersonal Edge" by Tribune Media Services.
People suffer needlessly because they don't have the communication tools to solve conflicts, generate influence, hear hidden agendas, build professional alliances and promote themselves within the workplace. Interpersonal Edge teaches readers how to thrive in the most difficult part of work: dealing with other people. Skube's advice blends a counselor's insight and a management consultant's pragmatism to give readers the help they need to get ahead. Skube's book, "Interpersonal Edge: Breakthrough Tools for Talking to Anyone, Anywhere, About Anything," offers the strategies and secrets behind her popular column's effectiveness.
Skube gives organizations and private clients an edge in an increasingly competitive business world through organizational workshops for Fortune 500 companies, government, health care, accounting, consulting, legal firms, family businesses and manufacturing facilities. She coaches boards, CEOs and management teams. She's also FOX Channel 13's "Workplace Guru" giving workplace advice to viewers every Monday morning. Skube has spoken extensively about workplace communication at conferences in the United States, Europe and Canada. She appears on television and radio as a subject expert in the area of workplace communication. She's also a member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Skube has worked in the field of workplace communication, executive coaching, and counseling for more than 27 years. She has a B.A. with an emphasis in psychology and nonverbal communication from Evergreen State College. Her M.A. is in organizational development and her Ph.D. is in human development both from The Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Daneen Skube Ph.D. Samples
The secret to office time management
Q. Seems like every day I have 90 items on my to-do list and nothing gets done. A. Yes, there are actually two tricks; identify priorities and train people around you at work.
Success means multiple career plans
Q. I'm attempting to do career planning for 2012. A. You can cope effectively by realizing that only having one plan is no longer effective.
The secret to New Year's resolutions
Q. Everyone in my office is vowing to give up coffee, gossip or bad work habits. A. Yes, start by skipping New Year's resolutions. The truth is that our "bad" habits are actually serving a function for us.
Drooling over career daydream? Try it on!
Q. The last few years have been really hard in my industry. A. Yes, what I tell my clients who are considering far-flung dreams is to consider "borrowing" the career they fantasize about.
Is 2012 the end of work?
Q. I keep hearing about the Mayan prophecies, reading about increasing global issues, and hearing prophecies of economic and worldwide doom.
Best of 2011
As many of you sit underneath brilliantly lit trees today opening gifts from "Santa," I'd like to add a few gifts for you to unwrap and launch you into 2012 with more peace, power and productivity.
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