"Capillo del Hombre and Casa y Museo de Guayasamin" Muesum, home, and workshop/studio of Oswaldo Guaysamin, eminent contemporary Ecuadorean painter Guayasami...

Intercultural or cross-cultural relationships bring both challenges and opportunities. While it may take more time and effort to understand one another's pe...

Anger gets a bad rap.  Like all of our emotions, anger has a purpose, and while many of us can use a tune-up in terms of the way we manage anger, it can be a...

STAR Model (Business Feedback) In some roles, both in business and personal life, we are responsible for getting results, not from our own work, but through ...

Listening: This is the most underrated of life skills. Listening helps you to gather information, demonstrate that you care, and builds intimacy and empathy...

Providing Feedback: ​I like to distinguish between two types of feedback -- personal and business. It's not that one works exclusively in business, and the ...

Have you ever said, “I was so mad, I didn’t have any choice?” Have you heard a family member say, “I was so sad that I had to…?” If so, emotions may be runn...

Author, Alex Mackenzie, 1/14 Who is a leader? Everyone is a leader in some respects. Even if you’re not a formal manager with organizational chart lines of ...

A parent asks the questions that every parent has about rebellious teenagers. Dear Alex: My 16 year old twins (boy and girl) have become much more difficult ...

​When facilitating conflict resolution, I like to use William Ury's work -- he is the author of many cutting edge books on this topic including​: Getting Pas...