The Silent Ponderous Type: How to Help Your Team Member Speak Up in Meetings
Do You Have a Joe on Your Team? Do you have someone on your team who doesn’t speak up in meetings…then shares all their excellent ideas and important perspectives after the fact? “I have this guy on my team, let’s call him Joe. Joe is SO SMART,...
How to Deal with a Chronic Complainer
A few questions will help re-engage your chronic complainer A chronic complainer can suck the life out of you and your team and make everyone want to quit. But your complainer can also have valuable insights and likely doesn’t feel heard. When you lead them out...
Authenticity, Love, and Legacy with Rani Puranik
Showing up with authenticity and love creates a legacy. In today’s episode, Rani Puranik shares lessons of life, love, and leadership from her book, 7 Letters to My Daughters: Light Lessons of Love, Leadership, and Legacy. Rani provides a roadmap to equip not...
How to Get Your Coworkers to Embrace Your Great Idea (Video)
Get Your Coworkers to Embrace Your Great Idea and Make a Bigger Impact “I went to my boss with a great idea, and she said, “Go see what your coworkers think.” They’re already so busy and overwhelmed, I’m finding it hard to get their...
How to Stop a Workplace Bully (Without Losing Your Lunch Money)
Powerful Phrases to Confidently Confront a Bully at Work Looking back I feel I should have stood for myself and not give into this bully. I only feared hurting her and not getting into an ugly argument. However, this has made me not decide so many things for myself...
Making Time for Strategy with Richard Medcalf
If you find yourself caught in the day-to-day demands wondering “How do I find time to focus on a strategy that allows me to invest in myself, be more effective, or invest in building my business,” you don’t need a new productivity trick. The first...
Workplace Culture: How to Leverage Innovation No AI Bot Can Replace
The Power of Workplace Culture in an AI Universe: A virtual conversation about Empathy and Innovation Note: This article on Workplace Culture is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of our book, Courageous Culture: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and...
How to Be a Better Manager of Managers (let’s talk about accountability)
If your managers of managers are struggling to hold their teams accountable, dig a level deeper into the root cause This Asking for a Friend question came in from a manager of managers in one of our executive development programs. I’ve got a manager of managers...
