Strengthen Team Communication to Prevent “Missed Understanding”
This week’s article was published by the American Management Association. You can read the full article at this link. Please share it with your network.Thanks,Alain
How Empowerment Leads to Engagement
If it were you, which would you most prefer? No choice Someone else’s choice for me My choice The answer is obvious: In general, we prefer to make our own choices.There’s a freedom that comes from making our own choices. This is the heart of empowerment:the ability to be directly involved in our work. This … Read more
How To Start Becoming a Better Business Storyteller
Barbara was in a panic. This struck her colleagues as particularly strange, since she was the most experienced of the group. A Senior Vice President with twenty years experience, Barbara had worked in six different countries and was one of the most respected senior leaders in the company. What was causing Barbara so much stress? … Read more
What Really Intelligent People Need To Perform At Their Best
Jane has been recently promoted to Senior Manager at a technology firm. When I met Jane, she told me her most pressing problem: I have some really smart people on my team. While that seems great, they’re really challenging to lead. What should I do? Leading highly intelligent people is a double-edged sword. The (obvious) … Read more
10 Things That Great Talent Leaders Do on Their First Day
Happy to report this post was recently published by ATD (the Association for Talent Development).You can find the whole post on by clicking here.
Is There A Downside To Being Too Nice As a Manager?
This post was published this past week by the American Management Association. You can click on the link below to read it. Thanks! https://playbook.amanet.org/training-articles-leadership-nice-manager/
A Surprisingly Subtle Yet Powerful Way to Improve Decision Making
Decisions. We make them all day, every day. Decision making seems like it should be a relatively easy process. After all, we’ve got lots of practice at it. However, for leaders making decisions in organizational settings, there’s a whole new level of complexity that comes with the territory. It’s not as simple as right or … Read more
The Giant Cost of Faking Feedback
Saying you want feedback is one thing. The willingness to receive it is something else. Research has shown that leaders who ask for feedback are significantly more effective than leaders who don’t ask for it. Leaders who ranked at the bottom 10% in asking for feedback were rated at the 15th percentile in overall leadership … Read more
How Toothpaste Will Make You a Better Leader
Not long ago, toothpaste had an identity problem. If you remember, all tubes looked like this: They took up a lot of prime shelf space in the medicine cabinet. They’d only lay flat, unless you put it in a cup. Getting the last of the paste out of the tube was hard work. (Let’s not … Read more
3 Proven Ways to Boost Your Creativity & Productivity
Have you ever been washing the dishes and you were instantly hit with a flash of inspiration? Or maybe you were taking a shower, or going for a run, or commuting to work, or just about to fall asleep, and you suddenly came up with a great new idea? I’ve asked hundreds of leaders the … Read more