Acknowledge your limitations and embrace asking for help from those around you.
Begin elevating your focus from daily operations to the long-term trajectory of your team.
Constantly adapt your role to fit the need of the team - whether leading from the front, supporting from the...
Engage in your employees' career goals early by understanding their ambitions and guiding their growth.
Treat everyone with kindness and respect in your work interactions, understanding their long-lasting impact.
Encourage your team to embrace discomfort and break their routine.
Nurture a growth mindset in your team by fostering an environment that values adaptability and leading by example.
Turn 1:1 meetings into catalysts for action by focusing on goals and performance, while still maintaining rapport.
Foster diverse thinking in your team to avoid complacency and encourage dissenting opinions.
Teams are not all created equal.
You’re subject to various opinions from all...
You’re eager to showcase your team’s abilities and have them rise to every challenge, but...
A feeling of unease seeps into your workdays, and you find yourself in...
The fear of making a mistake or the apprehension of facing criticism can be...
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It’s easy to become consumed by tasks or projects that don’t contribute to...
Your employees aren’t always ready to hear what you have to say...
Holding a leadership position assumes you’ve excelled in your industry or field.
Your employees won’t always take your advice.
There’s never a good time to deliver bad news.
You’ll be tempted to react strongly to those who challenge your perspective.
Many get frustrated when their careers stall and opportunities start to dwindle.
It’s not about the power to rule with an iron fist but the power to make an impact.
The reality is that tolerating disrespectful behavior undermines your authority and credibility as a leader.
When you don’t prioritize your own learning and development, you miss out on new ideas, perspectives, and best practices.
Managers confuse the idea of giving their employees autonomy with adopting a “hands-off” approach instead.
You’ll eventually run into an employee that will operate well below the line of expectation.
As managers, you might have even been affected directly by facing a layoff or delivering the news to an employee.
Empathizing with your employees can be a challenge - especially when the conversations are difficult.
You’re going to inherit a lot of problems. Broken systems, poor-performing employees, failing projects - all of these (and more) are up for grabs.
Just as you build trust with your employee through your commitment to them, they must also be held responsible for developing trust with you in their roles.
The start of a new year can bring a positive new outlook on what’s to come—endless opportunities to start fresh at work.
The holidays. It’s that time of the year when PTO requests stack, and we tell ourselves that whatever’s on our plate is a problem for next year.
Too often, managers assign pieces of work without any appropriate context.
You probably don’t think of yourself as someone who withholds information, but even the best managers forget to update their teams when it comes to decisions that are being made.
We often run into scenarios where we’re asked to compromise our values at work.
As a leader, you might find yourself apologizing for things that don’t warrant an apology.
It’s your responsibility to own big decisions for your team. That’s why you’re the manager making the big slightly more than average bucks.
You’re not responsible for whether or not your employees live a fulfilled life.
If you truly want to grow as a leader, you’ll need to be able to take feedback and criticism.
On occasion, your employees will have trouble working well together.
The last several years (global pandemic) have changed how we work, blurring the lines between our personal and professional identities.
Ask anyone who works for a company with over 100 employees, and they’ll remind you of the endless systems and processes they run into.
Every manager wants to get involved when their employee runs into a problem.
An employee is producing subpar results on a project, and it’s our responsibility to let them know they need to improve.
Even the most informed decisions in the world can still produce a negative outcome.
All of your employees will clash and disagree at some point. It’s a natural part of the team building process; every leader has witnessed their team work through conflict.
Think about all the questions you get from your employees every week—the questions from your 1:1’s, team updates, and brainstorming sessions.
All of your employees want learning and growth opportunities. And they want them quickly.
If I look back and think about all the teams I’ve worked with, the ones who fail to make any progress are the ones who never commit past the brainstorming phase.
The most dreaded phrase in the time management playbook starts with these 5 words.
If you’re one of the lucky ones, you have coworkers and a leadership team who are mature enough to engage in healthy and lively conversations.
We’ve all had a manager who was really eager and proud to share their thoughts about your performance.
How often are you making decisions based on data that’s not specific to your company?
As you grow in your career, you’ll tend to stick with what you’ve learned through personal experience and the results you’ve produced.
Patience is one thing, but waiting on the sideline for something to magically happen is one of the fastest ways to irritate your managers and coworkers.
Teams become stronger and perform at the top of their game through the diversity of thought and the support of every team member.
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“We love a micromanager.” Said no employee ever.
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However you choose to define it, maturity is a non-negotiable at the leadership...
All teams have that one individual who absolutely crushes it.
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We all make mistakes.
You’ll never be able to control the external factors that can impact your professional...
Sounds easy, right?
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Detroit automaker Ford is seeking to solve its semiconductor shortage through a strategic partnership...
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics has revealed that 4.3M Americans quit their jobs in August...
Global technology company Cisco published its first hybrid work index revealing that 52% of meeting attendees don’t say...
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Email marketing platform Mailchimp is facing backlash from employees after news of a $12B acquisition by Intuit...
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