Executives and senior professionals often feel more comfortable using English in structured meetings than they do in informal conversation, which may seem surprising when meetings can involve complex subjects, technical vocabulary, disagreement, negotiation and decision-making. Yet, over the years, I have noticed this repeatedly among senior professionals and leadership teams: although they may handle demanding […]

The timing of your question matters. What often determines the quality of feedback is not simply openness. It is sequencing. I recently observed a professional at a multinational company preparing to ask for feedback after a year in a demanding role. The difficult part wasn’t asking for feedback itself. The pressure came from not knowing

I see this often among Spanish-speaking professionals listening to English: they want to understand everything. Not just the main message, but the same level of detail they believe they would catch in Spanish. Recently, a CEO told me: “I’m thinking that perhaps I don’t even catch every detail in Spanish, but in English I become