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Leadership Caffeine™

Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development & Performance

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invitations to our Jam Sessions (free development),
upcoming workshops, and the latest from the blog.

Leadership Caffeine™

Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development & Performance

Receive the Leadership Caffeine™ e-news, personal
invitations to our Jam Sessions (free development),
upcoming workshops, and the latest from the blog.

Upcoming Professional Development Programs

The Senior Manager Program

Cohort + Coaching + Expert/Guest Expert Instruction delivered over 5 months & focused on the core level-up issues for senior managers.

New(er) Manager Development Program

For new(er) managers striving to start strong .Cohort + Coaching  + Expert/Guest Expert instruction delivered over 4 months.

Performance Feedback Skills Boot Camp

feedback skills Boot camp

A 2x per year program to help you strengthen your skills with challenging performance discussions. 

  Career Reinvent Cohort+Coaching

A 3-month guided program to support your career shift. Blends cohort + coaching to help you design the right “next” for you.

We Help Professionals Level-up

Coaching & Training

Is it time to level up in your career? We help emerging leaders at all levels strengthen their skills and grow their contributions via coaching, workshop programs, and e-learning courses.

Career Pivot

For individuals focused on applying their accumulated wisdom and skills in new ways (reinventors) Art Petty’s REINVENT™ framework and coaching guide you to success.

Ideas for Growth

Almost 2,000 articles at the Management Excellence blog filled with ideas to help you grow as a professional and leader.

From the Blog

Introduction to The Manager’s Journey

Joseph W. Campbell's description of The Hero's Journey has 17 distinct stages, starting with The Call to Adventure, navigating The Road of Trials, and ending with the Freedom to Live. Of course, the action occurs between those stages, with untold challenges, exhilarating highs, and soul-crushing lows. Campbell might have been writing the story of The Manager's Journey.

Feeling Invisible at Work? It’s Time for Action

If you've been passed over for promotion opportunities or you find yourself relegated to less-than-strategic initiatives in your organization, that creeping sense of irrelevance you are feeling might be real. As the late Andy Grove offered, "Only the paranoid survive." Let's channel this paranoia into some focused actions to regain your relevance. 

Bad Day as a Leader? Smile and Keep Marching

Not every day in your life as a leader is a party complete with cake and ice cream. When you encounter one of those days where everything seems to be working against you, it's time to force a smile and keep marching.

Four Steps to Harness the Power of Quality Feedback

In every healthy working environment, quality feedback flows in three directions: up, down, and sideways. Here are four steps for managers to take to bring the power of quality feedback to life on their teams.

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