Get Things Done – Leading When Life Isn’t Fair
Get Things Done by Changing Your Question Sara leaned back, crossed her arms, and sighed. “It’s not right! My VP expects me to hit these numbers, but customers want updates, and research is focused on new products and won’t give me the time of day. How can I get...
Best Practices in Project Management and Project Planning: A Frontline Festival
Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on project management and planning. We’ve been doing a lot of work with project managers and their teams in our corporate work as well as speaking at a number of Project Management Institute conferences and...
Massive Failures? What Great Leaders Do Next
What do you do when you’ve screwed up and everyone knows it? Your failures weren’t just mistakes in judgment…you let yourself down. You didn’t keep your commitment. You hurt people you are supposed to help. Your team looks at you with disappointment....
How Do I Convince My Manager I’m a Professional?
“Why does my manager care if I go directly to his boss with an idea? Good ideas are good ideas, right?” “Customers don’t need all that formality. They’re chill. Why can’t I just show up and give them an update?” “When...
Leadership Retreat Idea: Speed Mentoring To Build Trust and Connection
Are you looking for a meaningful activity to build trust and connection at your next leadership retreat? Do you have high-potential employees who need greater exposure? This easy-to-facilitate exercise can go a long way in jump-starting connection and conversation. An...
Critical Thinking: 7 Ways to Build Your Team’s Capacity to Think
Help your Team Make Bigger Contributions by Teaching Critical Thinking “Karin, TRUST me. I would LOVE to delegate more of these decisions and loosen up the reigns, but then I go out into the field and find all this crap. I just don’t think we have the...
Managing Remote Teams: Let’s Grow Leaders April Frontline Festival
Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on managing remote teams. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on this topic. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! As...
19 Questions to Grow Confidence in Children
Questions are a remarkable way to grow confidence in children. Great questions work because they cause children to stop and think. To reflect. To pause and consider what’s going on in their lives and in the world around them. Kids are natural questioners. So why...
