Welcome to leadership. Welcome to your newly appointed position as the team leader. Or if you’ve been in leadership for a while, welcome to the realization that we are always growing and learning as leaders. And part of that growth involves examining our past beliefs and actions and considering...
Successful leaders challenge people. Jerks are just pushy. But the opposite of pushy – being a pushover – isn’t an option for leaders.7 fundamentals of assertive challenge: Rushing to challenge is pushy. Talent enjoys healthy challenge. Healthy challenge brings energy, growth, and confidence. Too...
When it comes right down to it, the emotionally intelligent leader looks before she leaps, this data analytics CEO says. Leaders are glorified for trusting their gut and making on-the-spot decisions, but in my experience that’s the easy part of the job. Controlling impulses is far more...
Coaching isn’t therapy. It’s product development, with you as the product. — Fast Company magazine Business experts often cite coaching as an effective way of enabling employees, by making sure they embrace their jobs and maximize performance. By coaching, I don’t mean those all-hands-on-deck...
Spending time with their manager is the worst part of the day for employees. What makes managers so un-delightful? Managers are unintentionally malevolent when they have an agenda that has nothing to do with people. Bores always have a personal agenda. When un-delightful managers ask questions,...
Managing a business is never easy. There are challenges around every corner, not all of them financial in nature. Managing employees, balancing the books and keeping up with new business trends can be overwhelming for any business executive. Thankfully, there are many other business managers out...
One of the best ways to learn how to manage your employees is to ask them questions. If you pose the right questions, you’ll get to know what motivates your employees and what their goals are. You can then use this information to manage them more effectively and help them succeed in their jobs. To...
The “Inside Out” coaching approach focuses on the individual’s psyche and advocates changing the leader’s mindset first; behavior naturally and quickly follows. The difference between leaders and managers is powerfully articulated by the great business theorists, Dr. Peter Drucker and Dr. Warren...
We all anticipated that the world would be different when we returned from lock-down to (semi)normal operations. But who could have predicted the post-pandemic employment landscape in which we find ourselves? One in which: Nearly 3 million women have dropped out of the labor pool People continue...
Since the onset of COVID 19, our workplaces have seen massive disruption. One of these was the number of people working from home. Even though that number had been steadily rising over the years, COVID forced an unprecedented number of employees to work from home. For some, this was a welcome...
Nobody likes to be micro-managed. Yet nearly all of us have felt the intense pressure of a manager who was too involved in the minutiae of our daily work lives. There are many reasons why leaders micro-manage. In some cases, a hands-on approach actually has benefits, according to this...
To keep up with the development and growth of the leaders I coach, I do an annual assessment of their leadership with my clients and with the people they lead. Last year I heard an interesting bit of feedback in one of these sessions: “At times his passion is great, but most of the time it’s...