How to Hold an Effective Mid-Year Review in a Pandemic
Hold an Effective Mid-Year Performance Review in a Pandemic We get it. It’s all a lot right now. Some days it takes every ounce of energy just to make it through. Who has time for mid-year performance review? Why not just skip them this year? After all, a great...
Don’t Waste Your Team’s Courage
If it takes courage to show up for work every day, your people won’t have the energy, creativity, or courage they need to solve bigger problems or better serve your customer. This episode challenges leaders to find their own courage to build cultures...
How To Help Your Team Process Tragedies Weighing On Their Hearts
Help Your Team Process Tragedies A note to our international readers: we recognize that we have readers from around the globe, but our home is in the United States and tragedies at home run deep. Whether you are reading from the US or elsewhere, we invite you to lead...
Why Your Team Won’t Trust You – and What to Do About It
When your team won’t trust you, that’s job number one. If there’s one realization every leader can take to heart from the pandemic and social-political turmoil gripping the United States right now, it’s that you cannot lead without trust. Civil society...
Ask for What You Need and Other Leadership Essentials – Interview with Jane Miller
Jane Miller has an incredible track-record of business leadership success including roles as CEO for a variety of food businesses making nutritious (and tasty) products. She’s served as President for the UK & Ireland Division of HJ Heinz and is...
How To Disrupt the Disruption and Help Your Team Move Forward
How to Disrupt the Disruption You wouldn’t have wished for this ridiculous, unprecedented disruption. But if you’re like many leaders I talk with, this stressful period has also been surprisingly energizing. Until it wasn’t. You’re proud of...
7 Ways to Encourage Creative Thinking in Your Team
It Takes Clarity and Curiosity to Encourage Creative Thinking Businesses around the world face a changing normal, where it’s hard to say what things will look like in one year, much less six months from now. For some this means finding entirely fresh ways to bring...
When Being Right Frustrates Your Leadership
You’re smart, informed, and know your work backward and forward. But sometimes, being “right” stops you from being effective. In this episode, you’ll discover challenges leaders face when they’re overly focused on being right and...
