How to Prepare Your Successor For Success
7 Ways to Help Your Successor Succeed The same mentor who jokingly told Karin that if you want people to think you’re a rock star “always follow an idiot” also smiled and said, “and always leave an idiot as your successor.” Not the best...
How to Lead When Your Employees Don’t Have to Follow
Leading people who don’t have to follow starts with your mindset. How do you lead when people don’t have to follow? In a recent long-term leadership development program Karin and I conducted for leaders from around the globe, this was one of the most common questions...
How to Start the New Decade in Deeper Conversations
Hold Deeper Conversations With Your Team As we start a new decade, what if you took a minute to have some deeper conversations with your team? In addition to your kick-off meetings and goal setting sessions, what if you also paused to have a deeper conversation to...
The Best Leadership Articles of 2019 (based on your votes)
Each year, it’s fun to review the stats and determine what our readers found to be the best leadership articles of the year. The best leadership articles of 2019 covered a range of topics including culture, meetings, performance appraisals, leading...
When Your Boss is On the Naughty List
One of our most popular holiday posts is this look at Santa’s poor leadership in the classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV Special. Fortunately, Santa learns how to recognize and encourage talent. But what do you do your boss is the one on the naughty list? It...
Leaders Share the Best Leadership Insights of 2019: A Frontline Festival
Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their Best leadership insights of 2019 which we’ve loosely organized in our Winning Well principles of confidence, humility, results, and relationships. Thanks to Joy and...
Stretch Goals: How to Motivate and Challenge Your Team
It’s that time of year. All around the world teams are being handed stretch goals that feel more like a delusion than a challenge. If this is happening to you, and you don’t know whether to laugh or cry, don’t give up hope. I’ve felt that...
How Leaders Manage Their Emotions
You can only lead others as well as you lead yourself – and this includes navigating a range of emotions that sadly ruin many leaders’ influence. In this episode, David shares several ways you can work with your emotions to help you be a more...
