What’s Going to Happen to You in 2016
If only you had a crystal ball. The planning, the decisions, the choices would be so much easier. But you don’t. And those decisions and tradeoffs aren’t easy. Should you stay? Should you go? Is that project realistic? What if they reorganize… again?...
How to Launch a Successful Project
Have you ever been handed an “impossible” project, only to realize that the next step is to convince your team it’s completely doable? In this video, I share two manager’s responses to the identical task. The project was identical, their...
7 Fundamentals For Building Real Trust With Your Team
Trust is tricky. It sure looks easy on paper (or a blog post.) But get out in real life, and what seems obvious and easy, suddenly becomes more difficult than securing funding for a corporate hover-craft. The sooner we talk about trust, why it works, and how it breaks...
May the Force Be With You: A Frontline Festival
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month is co-hosted with my Winning Well co-author, David Dye. In honor of the new Star Wars movie, we begin with Star Wars-themed posts and then wrap up the year with our “Best Of 2015” posts...
7 Reasons Managers Move to the Dark Side
Darth Vader wasn’t always a mysterious meanie, the Grinch’s heart didn’t start out two sizes too small, and as legend has it, Mr. Scrooge was once a charming and likable fellow. Chances are that jerk in your office didn’t start out as a...
The Worst Reason Women Don’t Get Promoted
The room was filled with successful, competent, middle-aged women. We’d just finished a powerful workshop where each of them had identified ways they could make a bigger impact in the their organizations, in the world and in the women leaders coming up behind...
8 Reasons Your Peers Rate You Low on Your 360 Feedback Assessment
Without a doubt, the peer rating is by far the most consistent shocker for folks taking a 360 degree feedback assessment. Managers usually have a good grip on what their boss thinks, and at least an inkling of the pain points for their direct reports, but for some...
6 Reasons to Give Your Team More Upward Exposure
“If I bring my SME along to the meeting, my boss will think I don’t know what I’m doing.” “She’s a little rough around the edges. She’s not ready for that kind of exposure.” “Not all exposure is good exposure. What...
