by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2017
If you have trouble understanding health insurance terms, you’re not alone. According to a study in the Journal of Health Economics, only 14% of respondents could correctly answer four questions about the most basic components of a health insurance plan. Collective...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 31, 2017
A team of virtual reality (VR) experts, psychologists, and former Google and Facebook engineers are using modern tools to tackle phobias that humans have faced since the beginning of time — social anxieties, including the top social fear of all, public speaking. I...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 30, 2017
Did you have an epiphany on your vacation this summer? I’ve written some of my best articles in a beachside café, from a lounge chair at lake Tahoe and sitting poolside at a resort. Like most people I’m more creative when I’m out of the office. The further away...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 28, 2017
If you only had 24 hours to craft and deliver the pitch of your lifetime, what would you leave in and, more importantly, what would you leave out? To make the exercise even harder, you’ll have only 10 minutes to give the pitch. I met with a group of senior leaders at...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 21, 2017
If two job candidates have equal qualifications, which person is more likely to get the job? According to a new survey of HR and recruiting professionals, 63 percent of recruiters say they’d give the job to the person who has better “oral communication skills.” iCIMS,...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 15, 2017
The CEO of a large company lost the audience—his top salespeople—in the first two minutes of his presentation. I was there to witness it. Slides were out of place and financial data was wrong. “Sorry guys. I threw this together last night,” the CEO explained as he...
