http://artpetty.com Leadership, Management and Professional Development Wed, 23 May 2012 22:31:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 copyright by Art Petty, 2011 art.petty@artpetty.com (Art Petty) art.petty@artpetty.com (Art Petty) 1440 http://artpetty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lcpodcast144x144.png http://artpetty.com 144 144 http://artpetty.com/feed/podcast Leadership Caffeine Podcast Host Art Petty interviews leaders, leadership authors, management thinkers and other professionals about creating high performance teams and organizations and developing effective leaders at all levels, during this weekly program. The goal is to share practical, powerful ideas to help listeners improve their performance and the performance of their teams and organizations. Caffene, Ldrshp, Profesional, Dev, Ledership, Ldrshp, Caffeine, Proff'l, Dev Art Petty Art Petty art.petty@artpetty.com no no http://artpetty.com/2011/05/19/the-millennial-view-mentors-wanted/ http://artpetty.com/2011/05/19/the-millennial-view-mentors-wanted/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 15:44:50 +0000 Eric Rodriguez http://artpetty.com/?p=5768 Eric Rodriguez is the voice of The Millennial View here at Management Excellence. Today, Eric shares his thoughts on the benefits early career professionals can gain from a good mentor. "A simple step that we can engage in to help our careers along is to find a mentor to guide and coach us in the workplace. A great mentor is a blessing because of the knowledge that they have accumulated through years of experience in the corporate jungle and their willingness to pass it on to their mentees."

]]> http://artpetty.com/2011/05/19/the-millennial-view-mentors-wanted/feed/ 6 http://artpetty.com/2010/09/21/the-feedback-on-feedback/ http://artpetty.com/2010/09/21/the-feedback-on-feedback/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:33:51 +0000 Art Petty http://artpetty.com/?p=4352 Over the past several years beginning with the work for Practical Lessons in Leadership with my co-author, Rich Petro, I’ve made a professional hobby out of exploring the fascinating and very real fear that so many people have for delivering constructive feedback. One of my favorite interviews for the book was with a retired CEO who when I posed the question on whether he had any regrets, without hesitating, responded: “I really regret that I never learned how to have the tough discussions with the people that worked for me.” He quickly added, “To this day, I wonder how much money that I cost my companies.” This most difficult of human interactions in the workplace is also one of the most important. The fear, much like the fear of public speaking is mostly in our minds, and with some deliberate practice, all of us are capable of improving our skills, and as a result, improving our performance, the performance of our teams and of our organizations.

]]> http://artpetty.com/2010/09/21/the-feedback-on-feedback/feed/ 11 http://artpetty.com/2010/06/02/have-you-been-observed-recently/ http://artpetty.com/2010/06/02/have-you-been-observed-recently/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:15:41 +0000 Art Petty http://artpetty.com/?p=3864 Professional sports teams and great athletes have long understood the power of watching game film to learn about themselves as well as the strategies and tendencies of their opponents. Aside from professional speakers, few of us in business benefit from either viewing ourselves in action on film, and sadly too few of us benefit from good feedback and mentoring from our managers and colleagues.

]]> http://artpetty.com/2010/06/02/have-you-been-observed-recently/feed/ 6 http://artpetty.com/2009/07/26/leadership-caffeine-things-i-wish-someone-would-have-told-me-when-i-first-became-a-leader/ http://artpetty.com/2009/07/26/leadership-caffeine-things-i-wish-someone-would-have-told-me-when-i-first-became-a-leader/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:46:36 +0000 Art Petty http://artpetty.com/?p=2205 Note from Art: this one’s with a little help from my friends. I’ve been working a great deal with first-time leaders recently (my favorite groups!) and I posted a tweet to the extremely talented group of great people that I follow on Twitter asking what they wish someone would have told them when they started out in their leadership careers. Here are a few of their insightful thoughts with attribution, commingled with thoughts of my own.

]]> http://artpetty.com/2009/07/26/leadership-caffeine-things-i-wish-someone-would-have-told-me-when-i-first-became-a-leader/feed/ 24 http://artpetty.com/2009/04/27/leadership-caffeine-for-the-new-week-are-you-mentor-potential/ http://artpetty.com/2009/04/27/leadership-caffeine-for-the-new-week-are-you-mentor-potential/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:48:50 +0000 Art Petty http://artpetty.com/?p=1559 This week’s topic focuses on the plight of the first time leader and a call to action for experienced leaders everywhere to step up and do a better job mentoring and coaching.

]]> http://artpetty.com/2009/04/27/leadership-caffeine-for-the-new-week-are-you-mentor-potential/feed/ 2 http://artpetty.com/2008/10/08/leadership-development-this-is-squishy-feely-stuff/ http://artpetty.com/2008/10/08/leadership-development-this-is-squishy-feely-stuff/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:35:50 +0000 Art Petty http://artpetty.com/2008/10/08/leadership-development-this-is-squishy-feely-stuff/ It’s not uncommon to run into resistance from the senior members of an organization that has just recognized that it might be good to professionalize and improve talent development and acquisition processes. I can even understand the “Squishy Feely” comment coming from a grizzled functional veteran that grew up in a world where the topic of talent identification, development and retention was not as front and center as it increasingly is today. However the statement: “We’re not going to do this,” is impossible to fathom. It’s a lot like saying, “It’s good to be ignorant.” Or, “It’s OK not to breathe.”

]]> http://artpetty.com/2008/10/08/leadership-development-this-is-squishy-feely-stuff/feed/ 2 http://artpetty.com/2008/05/17/how-healthy-is-your-leadership-culture-rate-it-yourself-and-see-or-rate-it-and-weep/ http://artpetty.com/2008/05/17/how-healthy-is-your-leadership-culture-rate-it-yourself-and-see-or-rate-it-and-weep/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 13:19:16 +0000 Art Petty http://artpetty.com/2008/05/17/how-healthy-is-your-leadership-culture-rate-it-yourself-and-see-or-rate-it-and-weep/ Chances are if you are like most of the business professionals that take the 10 question Leadership Culture Index below, your organization can use some improvement. A lot of improvement.

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