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My team is pretty new. How do I get a jumpstart on evaluating their capabilities?
This honeymoon stage of a new team is a beautiful thing. A friend of mine recently started a new job and is living on cloud nine with excitement about the work, the role and her team. Everyone around her kept...
Innovation goes beyond simply generating new or more ideas. It’s surfacing ideas, evaluating them, deciding what to try out and assessing what needs to happen to make it better or do it differently. It’s an ongoing process that is at the heart of innovation.
Ideating on its own...
"How do you lead well while grieving?"
In leadership you will face a variety of different seasons. Sometimes those seasons can be rough, and we will have to walk through grief while also leading well. That’s the focus of our listener’s question today and I am joined by Dr. Michaela...
I’m sure you’ve heard that necessity is the mother of invention. We experienced it with the “necessity” arising from an unexpected pandemic. We learned new ways of adapting, many of which we unpacked in our Lessons from Leading Remote blog series.
Now that the...
Questions are a great way to draw out the great potential with your people: to solve problems, to grow, to perform better. We can use questions as leaders to explore, to listen, to understand.
You’ve got to ask yourself, though, is there a time where questions are not useful?
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My heart sank when I read this quote.
“I have no question that a team can generate magic. But don’t count on it.” - J. Richard Hackman
I have such optimism for teams to work better together. I even put it in the name of my business: Leading Better Together. I think my...
The team is split on a decision we need to make. It’s a no-win situation. How can I approach making an “unpopular” decision?
Before I dive into today’s question, let’s talk about what you could do to avoid or minimize those no-win situations.
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Confidence is a leader’s friend. A necessary asset to being able to lead in any capacity. In fact, it’s an expectation that many leaders feel like they can’t meet. Even the most capable and confident leaders have moments where they must fight for confidence.
The dictionary...
It’s a holiday week, so let’s take a little “vacation” break from answering a question. One thing I like about holidays is that they are like periods in a run-on sentence. A moment to pause and take a breath so you can say or write the next sentence more...
I was in one of four parties seated at the same time, in the same section, with the same server. You can imagine what happened. The first party served was oblivious to the tension building. The second party flagged down the server and demanded to place her order. The third party got visibly upset...
What is a mistake you witness leaders making more frequently than others?
We are bound to make mistakes as leaders. Some of those mistakes can turn into patterns. And these patterns can really get us in trouble – and make a mess of our teams. Well, let’s stop those patterns before...
The way we work has changed drastically. Beyond where we might do our work, it’s also how work gets done. Amidst all this change we have learned how to do things differently. We’ve likely been surprised by the ingenuity found in doing things in new ways.
As we forge our way into...
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