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Leadership Caffeine™: Accelerate New Leader Development

In my experience, many senior managers move too slowly to expose their developing leaders to new and more challenging situations. This is a mistake that artificially inhibits professional growth and potentially risks losing the interest of your best and brightest emerging leaders. Here are 5 ideas to help you move opportunities along at a faster pace, and a polite reminder that nothing is free. You’re on the hook for coaching every step of the way.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:22-05:00March 31st, 2013|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|4 Comments

New Leader Tuesday: Trust Feeds Respect and Builds Performance

Respect. It’s a complex concept filled, filled with nuance and subtlety and gesture, all buried in a simple word. Most of us are wired to appreciate respect and to reciprocate in kind. And vice-versa. One of the most powerful and effective ways to show respect is to extend our trust. Of course, for all of us, particularly new leaders, that feels risky and almost counter-intuitive. It's not.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:29-05:00June 19th, 2012|Leadership|0 Comments

The Five Tripping Points of Emerging Leaders

A colleague used the phrase Tripping Points in conversation the other night to describe what leaders and management teams go through in attempting to take businesses from one level to the next. Firms and teams run into natural Tripping Points in the form of infrastructure and know-how as they work to grow a firm from start-up to $10 million or from $10 million to $25 million and so on. I can easily apply Tripping Point thinking to the challenges that we as professionals face in advancing our careers and in particular, in developing as leaders. Awareness of your prospective Tripping Points is an important first step in creating your personal and professional development plan.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:14-05:00February 5th, 2009|Career, Leadership|1 Comment