How (Not) To Deal With Transitions Constructively
My hope is, even if you aren’t going through my exact experience of growing a human, that the feelings, questions, and observations might sound familiar as you reflect on your own transitions from the past or encounter them in the future.
Being Dubbed A Rising Star: A Blessing Or Curse?
What does it means to be dubbed a “rising star” as well as the pressure, the fall, and the recovery that comes with it.
Great Sales Skills Are Great Leadership Skills
The majority of people I work with are not in sales formally, but are in roles where selling is crucial to their success. The result is that sales concepts come up in our coaching sessions over and over again.
Make Feedback Easier To Chew On
Let’s talk about what makes feedback so tough and how we make it easier to chew on.
Be Empty To Be A Better Leader
One of the painful unlearnings for you, senior leader, as you continue to become more senior is how to say less and listen more. How do you re-define what doing a good job is? It used to mean having the best answer. Now the rules have changed.
Stop Stinking Up Your Meetings
One of the biggest determinants of a successful meeting is not just knowing who is in charge or “chairing” the meeting, but the mindset of this chair.
The Tone of Effective Negotiation
It’s not the message that kills a negotiation, it’s the tone.
How We Sabotage Our System Power
What each of us can do in our multiple roles as Tops, Middles, Bottoms, and Customers to create a system with outstanding capacity to survive and develop.
Renegotiate Your Relationship With No
“No” can actually be the key to deepening our relationships and getting what we want – if wielded responsibly.
Your Confidence Is Hiding In Plain Sight
Where is our confidence? Where is it hiding? Is it under a rock? Is it in a sock? Is in a tree? Or at the bottom of the sea?
Do You Have Happy Ears?
Happy Ears gives us the incredible ability to twist a lukewarm, vague response into a concrete commitment. Leaders accept “sounds good” at face value in many team conversations and pay for it.
A Leadership Trip with Sal the Sock
Sometimes I ask clients to look around the room, name an inanimate object that captures their attention then explore their issue from that object’s perspective.
So when I discovered the Everything is Alive podcast featuring interviews with inanimate objects, I had to listen. The episode with Sal the sock reaffirmed that leadership inspiration can come from anywhere.
Employees Care About Being Cared About
We physically distanced. We emotionally distanced. Our relationships at work paid the price. Time is ticking for employers to figure out how to foster connection as a critical part of their business strategy. Leaders can start with a deceptively simple rule.