Beverly Jones helps executives bring new productivity to their organizations, and works with professionals to restructure and re-energize their work lives. Throughout her varied career, Bev has engaged in leadership and change management activities, and today she coaches accomplished leaders who want to become more effective. Bev is an attorney who served for 13 years as vice president of external affairs and policy of Consolidated Natural Gas Company, a Fortune 300 energy company and parent of four gas utilities. She has written and spoken about the management of public affairs strategies in many venues, she undertakes strategic communications projects, and she works with others to increase their advocacy skills and enhance their effectiveness.

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	Interested In a New Career Path? Try These Steps to Get Started by Beverly Jones - Jul, 2010 Chances are that you have a career switch in your future. Maybe changes in your professional field will force you to look for something new. Or maybe you will elect to step off the treadmill and find a career that is less stressful or more personally rewarding. Perhaps, like me, you’ll kee...
	Want to Sell Your Ideas? Go Back to the Basics Of Effective Communications by Beverly Jones - Jun, 2010 If you are a professional, chances are that communicating ideas is an important part of your job. Whether you are speaking to a single colleague or planning a major campaign, your success may depend on your ability to communicate in a persuasive way. And even beyond your career, your abili...
	Create Harmony & Fulfillment By Creating Practices That Work by Beverly Jones - May, 2010 Our routine practices – our normal ways of doing things – shape much of our time, even though we may not be conscious of these habitual patterns. But we have the power to transform our lives by examining our own activities, and replacing some of our habits with a new set of practices that ...
	Is It Time to Start Planning Your Next Dream Career? by Beverly Jones - May, 2010 In a regular U.S. News & World Report feature called “Second Acts,” Kerry Hannon writes about Americans between the ages of 44 and 70 who have launched “encore careers.” For more than three years, she has been interviewing some of the estimated 8.4 million Americans who have moved from a c...
	We Say More Than We Realize – Body Language Can Be Powerful by Beverly Jones - Apr, 2010 In a dog training ring it can be easy to see that our success depends on how we move our bodies. With practice we discover that every movement, and even each shift in our attitude, may change the way our dogs respond to our commands. Although we are less conscious of it, the same thing ...
	Learn From Ben Franklin - His Tips Are Timeless by Beverly Jones - Mar, 2010 Benjamin Franklin had only two years of formal schooling, but he educated himself to become a leading American thinker, an extraordinary innovator and a major Enlightenment figure. As a teenager, Franklin methodically taught himself to write and speak well. He read essays in leading En...
	Learn How to Bounce Back - Things Can Be Better Than Ever! by Beverly Jones - Mar, 2010 A business friend I’ll call Sam is now a very wealthy man, and he seems to be very happy as well. Sam has had several careers and pursued many entrepreneurial projects. Our paths have crossed for close to 30 years, but most often when Sam’s career has been in a tough patch. I have seen...
	Start with Your Own Leadership Vision by Beverly Jones - Oct, 2009 Lately I’ve been teaching quite a few seminars on leadership. Each time I start to put together a program for a new group, I rethink the best way to introduce the topic. There are so many great books out there (many of the 50 or so favorites reviewed on my website touch upon the topic)....
	Ask Positive Questions to Find Your Group’s Strength and Provoke Positive Change by Beverly Jones - Jun, 2007 Management guru Peter Drucker wrote repeatedly that a manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant. When employees’ strengths are understood and well aligned, he said, weaknesses won’t matter so much. Research demonstrates that on this point...
	Don’t Let Your Email Drive You Crazy! by Beverly Jones - Jun, 2007 Email overload is an issue for a growing number of knowledge workers. For many, the challenge may simply be to develop habits and techniques that allow us to communicate a little more effectively in a little less time, with a bit less stress. In some cases, however, the crushing weight o...
	Focusing on the Basics Can Help You to Run Meetings That Work by Beverly Jones - Jun, 2007 The meetings that shape our professional lives typically bring people together for some kind of collaborative work process. They are important because they provide an opportunity for various players to ask questions, to brainstorm, and to share expertise and perspective. They keep projects...
	The Way You Talk Can Shape Your Success at Work by Beverly Jones - Jun, 2007 If you’re a carpenter, your work may often speak for itself. But if you’re a manager you may need to create your success one conversation at a time. We talk about what we do at the office, but for many professionals what we “do” is often a function of what we say or write. Certainly th...
	When a Colleague is Ill Your Response Can Make a Big Difference by Beverly Jones - Jun, 2007 When a colleague has been diagnosed with cancer, or is facing another health challenge, it is difficult to know what to do or say. And the illness may even make you fearful or uncomfortable. The general rule when a friend is seriously ill is that you find a way to say, “I am here for y...
	A Few Simple Techniques Can Help You Manage or Avoid Workplace Conflicts by Beverly Jones - May, 2007 Workplaces today may incorporate wonderful diversity. Globalization means that even small organizations may have employees drawn from diverse ethnic, religious, and social groups. At the same time, the rapid change that characterizes much of our economy is giving rise to extraordinary ...
	Change Yourself; Change Your Organization by Beverly Jones - May, 2007 In today's fast-moving world, managing change is a major challenge for leaders in all sorts of organizations. The marketplace is evolving constantly, many industries are in a continuing state of restructuring, and even the nature of our communities seems fluid. Institutional leaders are ch...
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