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Jump-start building your influence by mapping and assessing
In part one of this series, The Myth of Just Letting Your Work Speak for Itself, I provided the rationale and research supporting the need to deliberately build your influence. Unfortunately, your great work isn’t enough. In this article, I help you get started with...
Jump-start building your influence by mapping and assessing
In this latest article in my ‘Build your influence’ series, I share three steps to map and assess the influencers who affect you.
For Managers: Stop the Drama Storms by Bringing the Rules for Success to Life
Culture in a group is too important to be left to chance. Managers must work together with group members to define what it means to collaborate, communicate, problem-solve, and innovate in pursuit of their function’s charter.
The Grit Behind the Grime: How Summer Jobs Teach Lasting Life Skills
It turns out, those dirty, sweaty summer jobs we held earlier in our lives teach some foundational lessons. I love that I learned to grind with some tough, grimy tasks. And most of all, I love the lessons I learned about people and leading along the way.
Cultivating the Self-Confidence to Take Chances on You
Part of deciding to lead is determining whether you care enough to want to create, build, or fix more than you fear criticism or failure.
Let’s Rethink Summer School—A Program for Motivated Managers
The Summer School for Managers program offers a low-stress opportunity to sharpen your skills, network with some great people, and do it from wherever your travels take you.
Summer and Fall 2024 Professional Development Catalog from Art Petty
As we enter the always busy summer season, here’s the latest in leader and manager development programming from Art Petty. These are not just training programs. I blend coaching + multi-month cohort work, and for several programs, outside guest experts to create sustained learning and development experiences.
Our Big Goals Create Impact and Offer Priceless Journeys
I love the idea of fewer, larger goals that are not constrained to a fiscal period. These types of goals, particularly when blended with coaching, exploration, experimentation, and feedback, bring big ideas to life.
Why you need to start treating your words like Lego Blocks
Words are what we have to inspire, motivate, clarify, empower, and enable. Yet, too often, our words work against us and create problems. Why you need to start treating your words like Legos.
Three Options to Help You Strengthen Your Feedback Skills
It turns out, a great number of us stress over giving feedback—particularly the constructive kind. Earlier in my career, this was me and it took a great mentor to help me solve this problem. I work with professionals of all types and at all levels to strengthen their skills with feedback. Here are three options to support your growth (two free, one a great value workshop).
How to tame your “I’m the smartest person in the room’ problem
A leader’s compulsion to always be the smartest person in every room not only stifles creativity but also undermines the potential of a high-performance environment. Here are ideas to help tame this destructive syndrome.