Employee Complaints – 5 Questions to Ask
Treat employee complaints as an opportunity to build connection, confidence, and productivity. Your number one leadership job is to support your team to achieve its goals. Employee complaints give you an excellent opportunity to support your people, build their...
The Disciplined Listening Method with Michael Reddington
Do you know the value of your listening skills? The cornerstone of any leader’s personal brand is how people perceive their listening skills. Distractions, biases, unhealthy expectations, and misaligned perceptions make it difficult for leaders to truly...
How Do I Find More Meaning in My Work? – with Marshall Goldsmith (Video)
In this very special edition of Asking for a Friend, I partner with David and his Leadership Without Losing Your Soul podcast. in a conversation with Marshall Goldsmith about how to find more meaning in work, and his new book, The Earned Life. “We are living an...
Braver at Work: Questions to Inspire Your Next Courageous Act (with Video)
Gain the Confidence to Be Braver at Work Whenever we ask participants in our Courageous Cultures or Team Innovation programs to share a time that felt particularly brave at work, the room explodes with powerful energy. People love to share times when they were scared...
Building Psychologically Safe Relationships with LaTonya Wilkins
Real connections within teams can create a culture shift for an entire company. In this episode, LaTonya Wilkins gives you practical ways to lead below the “surface-ness” of traditional corporate culture, and how to build R.E.A.L. relationships with your...
What You Can Learn From Regret (Karin Hurt Interviews Dan Pink)
What you can learn from regret: how to encourage boldness on your team I caught up with Dan Pink, author of The Power of Regret, just after his fantastic keynote at the HR SHRM Virginia Conference on a special episode of Asking for a Friend. We dove into how his...
How to Help Your Team Say No at Work
Help your team say no at work so they can say yes to the work that matters most. The ability to say “no” is critical for a person’s sense of agency or feeling in control of their life. That feeling of agency directly contributes to workplace morale, engagement, and...
The Earned Life with Marshall Goldsmith
The Earned Life is a road map for ambitious people seeking a higher purpose. An earned life means living in a way where the choices, risks, and efforts we make moment to moment line up with our bigger purpose, regardless of the outcome. But for many of us, that pesky...
