Communication Techniques for Challenging Times: A Frontline Festival
Communication Techniques for Challenging Times Communication is tricky, even during “normal” circumstances, but it’s even more important now. You know we’re huge believers in 5×5 communication. Communicating anything that’s...
How to Stop Remote Work from Stealing Your Life
Awareness and intention will help stop remote work from stealing your life. It’s not your imagination: if the pandemic shifted your job to working from home, odds are, you’re working longer hours. For many of the leaders we’ve spoken with over the past months, WFH...
Your Leadership Promise – Interview with Jason Hewlett
What is it you give to your team and customers that’s uniquely you? In this episode, master showman Jason Hewlett shares what it means to keep the promise to your team, but more importantly, to yourself. That promise might not be what you think. Listen or...
Try This Powerful, Simple Technique to Improve Your Leadership (Video)
One of the best ways to improve your leadership is to reflect on how it feels to be led. I’ve had some amazing bosses over the years who taught me a great deal through their words. But mostly by their actions. I’m sure you have too. And yes, I’ve had...
Remote One-on-Ones: What Employees are Yearning For Most
Remote One-on-One Meetings Provide Direction and Connection One of the simplest, most cost-effective ways to build trust and improve performance in your remote team is a deliberate and well-executed cadence of remote one-on-ones. Here are six topics both...
Leading When “What Were They Thinking?”
It can be frustrating when your team’s behavior doesn’t make any sense. But those moments where you wonder “What were they thinking?” are also opportunities. In this episode, you’ll get a way forward for the next time you wonder “What...
How to Overcome One of the Biggest Challenges of Working From Home
Challenges of Working From Home The Harvard Business Review article, The Implications of Working Without an Office covers great research about the benefits and challenges of working from home. I highly recommend it. If nothing else to validate those mixed emotions...
One Way Smart Leaders Avoid Micro-Managing Virtual Team Members
Avoid micro-managing virtual team members by scheduling a clear finish. Recently we spoke with Shawna, an executive who reflected on the past year and the shift to remote work. “We’ve exceeded our goals, but I also am sure that our failure to follow through on some...
