You’ll get all sorts of advice before you start your first supervisor role. People will encourage you to know your leadership style, understand your strengths and weaknesses as a leader. I will encourage you to do that too. Infact, if you don’t yet know your leadership strengths, check out Strengths Based Leadership from Gallup. This […]
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If you’ve ever tried to teach someone something, you know it takes way more effort than to just tell them what to do or how to do it. Even something as simple as tying your shoe. You could tell someone how to tie their shoe in a matter of seconds, but teaching, that could take
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So many people want to drive change but hold back, feeling helpless, because they aren’t responsible for decisions in the group. You can tailor your efforts to impact the decisions and direction of group regardless of your position within it. Today I’m sharing the psychological tips to drive the changes you want to see when
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Have you ever felt like that one coworker of yours is just trying to make life hard? They don’t respond to your emails. They don’t get their share of the work done on time. When it’s all hands-on deck they somehow seem to have other things to do. While you’re trying to come up with
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If you want to grow in your career and as a leader you must learn to communicate your success. This is a skill and art that will move you in any direction you want to go exponentially faster than just doing good work. Bragging about all you’ve achieved will lose you friends, sure. However, strategically
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When you’re having tough conversations it’s critical to be honest, kind, and sets standards for the future. It not only sets you apart as a leader on the team but it helps people work more effectively. It also sets the team up for success. I actually have 6 great reasons why you want to have
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I’ve never met a single person who was trying to communicate poorly and yet we make communication mistakes all the time. We communicate every single day so, with good intentions, and practice we should be good at it, right? Wrong. Studies of American’s show that each generation feels they are less effective communicators than the
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While it might seem like your boss is out to get you sometimes, most often they are just doing the best they can with what the tools they were given. They are just people and we know, because we see it every day, that they are not perfect. What if you could better equip them?
Coaching Up Your Boss: How to Make a Bottom-Up Impact Read More »
Do you know what style leader you are? There are a variety of different styles. From your traditional autocratic manager (think, they say jump you say how high) to a coaching style leader (they ask questions to help you discover if jumping is the best next step). Close to the coaching side of the spectrum
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If you’re a people leader you likely know the disconnect between the vision of the company and what your team is actually working on. At the end of the day, its likely aligned to a degree but if we don’t communicate the vision with our teams it will certainly feel disconnected. When you don’t communicate
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