The Painful Management Messages You Must Deliver
No one enjoys bringing up difficult topics. In work settings, we prefer to avoid uncomfortable conversations. It’s too easy to cause an unintended reaction or to hurt the feelings of someone that we need to work beside five days a week. Managers who are perfectly assertive in other aspects of their work will avoid, delay…
How to Set a Leadership Vision
One of the challenging things about becoming a leader is that, immediately upon promotion, everyone around you expects that you’ll exhibit new skills and ideas. It’s as if the title itself grants powers that, when revealed, justify your role. If you lack a higher leadership skill, you’re counseled to fake-it-’til-you-make-it while you figure it out….
How to Change and Stick to It
What would you like to change? My guess is that you could rattle off several ideas fairly quickly. Most people keep a running list of personal improvement targets – be less stressed, lose weight, eat better, parent differently, strengthen a skill, expand one’s network, get a new job, and so on. There’s no shortage of…
How to Say “You’re Not Performing” and Other Tough Messages
No manager wants to tell an employee they aren’t performing, or even worse, they’re fired. Here are ways to have hated converations with greater ease.
Three Things About Perfectionism I Wish I’d Learned Sooner
Perfectionism has a dark side that gets in the way of our success. Here’s what I wish I’d figured out earlier.
Stop Micromanaging (and Just Manage)
Micromanagers are trying to do the right thing. They want to create a good work product. They’re trying to share their experience for the greater good. They want to save others from the mistakes they’ve made. They push to keep things on track. If only intention equaled impact – but of course that’s not the…
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