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For Managers—Part 2 of Creating Clarity with Your Coaching and Evaluation Discussions (Feedback)
Note from Art: here's the lead-off article in this series. Feedback and Your Coaching Toolkit Feedback—both positive (appreciation) and improvement-oriented–is a vital part of your coaching toolkit. It's also one of the most troubling, vexing areas for managers...
For Managers—Part 2 of Creating Clarity with Your Coaching and Evaluation Discussions (Feedback)
Feedback—both positive (appreciation) and improvement-oriented–is a vital part of your coaching toolkit. It’s also one of the most troubling, vexing areas for managers because the improvement-oriented (aka constructive) feedback is simultaneously awkward, stressful, and potentially emotionally fraught for all parties. Here are ten ideas to help:
Leadership Caffeine™—Conversations for Growth
The heart of your professional and leadership development must be seeking out conversations for growth. It takes a bit of courage and deliberate effort, but the results are potentially life and career changing.
Leadership Caffeine™—Success: It’s All in the Cause
It’s not hard to identify the ingredients essential for success on a team or in an organization. Yet, manifesting a group wildly motivated to succeed is the real issue. To do this, there must be a cause that serves as the catalyst and driver. Your numbers, goals, quarterly targets, and emotional or logical pleas aren’t enough. The right cause brings teams to life.
Leadership Power-Up—Make Time to Think Deeply
There’s ample science to conclude that we’re lousy at multi-tasking and alternatively, that taking time to reflect improves our self-efficacy and ability to learn. Unfortunately, most of us work in and contribute to a perpetual tornado of activities in our daily lives. It’s imperative for your well-being and effectiveness to find opportunities to simply pause and think deeply.
podcast: Jennifer K. Crittenden: What’s A Guy to Do? How to Work With Women (#25)
I recently had a chance to interview former executive and now author and coach, Jennifer K. Crittenden, about her latest book: What’s a Guy to Do? Working With Women, as well as her other excellent books. In this engaging 40-minute interview, Jennifer shares a wealth of great guidance for all of us. Enjoy this latest episode for the Leadership Caffeine podcast.
Last Chance to Lock-In Feedback Performance Improvement in 2018
The absence of quality feedback on the tough performance and business issues is one of the most significant maladies inhibiting performance in our workplace today. Whether it’s boss to employee, vice-versa, or peer to peer, we have to be able to talk openly about individual and group performance and cut through the noise to drive positive change. Our online, on-demand course helps you and your team solve this problem to strengthen performance.
Leadership Caffeine™—It Comes from Inside
Some individuals are thrust on to a big stage and summon the strength to lead others through perilous times. For the rest of us, we are faced with almost daily opportunities to step-up and lead on the small stage. Some look the other way and others summon the strength from somewhere inside themselves to do the right thing.
In Remembrance
In honor of Veteran’s Day 2018.
Career Shift or Job Change—Which Path is Right for You?
If you’re feeling that tug of “It’s time to do something different,” it pays to spend some time sorting through whether you are best served by a job change or a wholesale career shift. As you might imagine, the two paths are radically different in scale, scope, timing, effort, and risk.
Leadership Caffeine™—A Simple Hack to Resuscitate Your Positive Attitude
When your usual positive attitude takes a holiday and leaves you alone with your grumpier more cynical self, it’s time for action. And while the idea of turning in your resignation after telling off the higher-ups is a nice fantasy, it’s placing the blame squarely where it doesn’t belong. Instead, try this simple but powerful hack to bring your positive attitude back to life: