by Art Petty | Mar 23, 2025 | Developing as a Senior Manager, Developing Your Career, Great Leadership and Management Resources, Ideas for Leadership Success, Strengthening as a Communicator, Uncategorized
Questions are an effective leader’s best friend. Tips to strengthen your questions-to-comments ratio.
by Art Petty | May 1, 2024 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Self-Development
Bottom-Line Up-Front: Words are what we have to inspire, motivate, clarify, empower, and enable. Yet, too often, our words work against us and create problems. Start thinking about words as building blocks of great conversations. They’re like Legos, and you can...
by Art Petty | Mar 7, 2023 | Leadership
For many years, I’ve had the pleasure and honor of submitting my Leadership Caffeine articles to the monthly Leadership Development Carnival coordinated by the great team at Weaving Influence. This monthly collection of ideas, inspiration, and guidance for all...
by Art Petty | Jan 20, 2023 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation, Think Differently
Rethinking the Operating System Needed for Manager Success Late last year, I shared an article at SmartBrief on Leadership, introducing the idea of the Manager’s Operating System—a set of core programs or instructions that must be present to create a healthy...
by Art Petty | May 8, 2022 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Self-Development, The Leadership Opportunity
Our mistakes in pursuit of learning are the burpees, extra gym time, and leg days of our mental fitness for most of us. For those where mistakes are measured in cost or time (not life impact or safety), your mistakes measure how hard you are pushing yourself to grow....
