Suspect Your New Hire Won’t Make It? 4 Mistakes to Avoid
Think termination is the only way out? Think again. Leverage the fact that your struggling employee may well be as frustrated as you. Four coaching tips which increase the odds of turning around your new employee’s performance – and reduce the chance of unpleasant departures or post-termination legal risks.
Nice Boss, Tough Boss: A Fairy Tale
Fairy tale mindsets create a powerful lens through which we view leadership. Do you let them affect how you act as a leader? If so, you may live LESS happily-ever-after.
What Motivates Jane? (a.k.a. The Telepathy Game)
Each day well-meaning managers across Corporate America play The Telepathy Game. In the absence of hard data on what motivates Jane — and with no ability to crawl inside her heart and mind to find out first-hand — a manager often defaults to ineffective and expensive guesswork. How can you find out what REALLY matters to Jane?
At the Intersection of Food, Influence, and Leadership
You need someone’s help. You may or may not be his boss. He’s known you for 6 minutes. He is very busy, and offering free food isn’t an option. Now what?
Do You Bring Enough of Yourself to Work?
Don’t airbrush vulnerability, emotions, eccentricities, a life history, and imperfections out of YOUR leadership style. Here’s why.
The Dark Side of Collaboration, And How to Fight Back
In many companies, employees spend 80% of their time in meetings or answering colleagues’ requests. How to fight back?
10 Days and 34 Words to Better Relationships
How do you increase the odds that others do things well (and quickly) for you? 10 days and 34 words that can help.
Radical Candor: Is it Ever OK to Use the Word “Stupid” When Giving Feedback?
Is it Ever OK to Use the Word “Stupid” When Giving Feedback? How to Get Away with Serious Levels of Candor.
“Thank-You” Magic: 5 Creative Tactics
Need some fast, easy, no-cost or low-cost tactics to boost morale, productivity, trust, and team relationships? My “top 5” favorite ways to supercharge an employee or group with appreciation.
Why Every Manager Needs Bad News
To maximize leadership success you MUST know not just the good – but also the bad and the ugly. If you don’t cultivate the art of collecting sentiments that can be hard to hear, you’ll pay a big price. So how do you get people to open up and share their frustrations or criticisms?