(FREE fun Good Food Diet Hunger Scale below)

When your body is trying to tell you that it has had more than enough food, you sometimes turn a deaf ear. Feeling that you’ve had enough to eat takes time to register in the brain, 20 minutes or so, but who can wait that long? By that time you’ve already finished the tub of chocolate-pecan ice-cream. Sounds familiar? Using the Good Food Diet Hunger Scale will help you to keep the overeating monster on a short leash.

Last year I embarked on a journey to learn Italian. What an exciting, frightening and ultimately satisfying experience!

In our jobs we are required to learn new things all the time. For example, we have to learn how to chair a meeting, do business presentations or use a new software package.

When you have a Q&A session coming up with employees, customers or stakeholders anything can happen, and it usually does. As a leader you want to do three things: make your points stick, hold the people’s attention and be a confident presence in the room. Here are four response starters that will grip your listeners, invite real connection and save you a world of trouble: