The Leadership Caffeine Blog
A Manager’s Operating System and How it Guides Them
The Critical Connection Between a Manager and Engagement I work with 300 to 500 managers across my various programs and dozens more in coaching activities each year. These are individuals from every sector of our economy and operating at all levels, from the front...
A Manager’s Operating System and How it Guides Them
We’re at an all-hands, and all brains required time in our world, and the pressure is on those who manage to tap into the potential of their team members and teams. The Manager’s Operating System is a powerful tool to help create engagement and build high-performance.
The Checklist App for Living and Leading
It seems like everyone I meet is in search of tools to help improve performance and find time for the things that matter. Perhaps we are looking too hard at our technology and our apps to solve what is a distinctly analog problem. Consider the example of my pilot friend and his preflight checklist. Perhaps we need a checklist for living and leading.
We All Make the Choice to Transact or Transform
All of us have the option to engage with others from a transactional or a transformational mindset. The transactional manager or coworker offers the bare minimum necessary for the situation. The individual with the transformational mindset strives to add value to every encounter. The cost difference between the two styles is negligible but the return from those who opt for the transformational style potentially remarkable.
Why We All Need to Get Good at “Next”
When faced with a world of constant change, “getting good at dealing with next” is essential for survival as well as success. Part of the process involves rewiring our brains to view change as opportunity and adventure.
What Story are You Telling About Your Value?
Success is much easier to attain when we tune in to our true purpose and the real impact we have on others. Once we discover that purpose and impact, we must articulate it through our personal narrative. Most of us are telling the wrong story.
Give Yourself Permission
Too often, we hesitate to make a decision or take action because we are insecure and uncomfortable over the possibility that we might be wrong. Instead of waiting indefinitely for a perfect certainty that will never arrive, give yourself permission to take action. Life is lived one moment and one action at a time.
When it Pays to Invest in Yourself
Working professionals who choose to not invest in their own skills development and knowledge expansion are effectively saying, “I know enough.” They are defaulting on their futures.”
Why Unilever Buying Dollar Shave Club is Relevant for Your Firm
The acquisition of Dollar Shave Club by Unilever highlights the need for all of us in our businesses to look beyond our traditional approaches. We focus intensely on what we do and how we do it and we fail to see simple alternatives that upstarts can easily exploit at our expense.
Leadership Caffeine™—Can One Person (You) Make a Difference?
I hear the same doubt expressed over and over again by good people upset over conditions in their workplace. It sounds something like: “Can I really make a difference? I’m just one person.” The often unspoken trailer is: “…and I am not the CEO or a senior executive,...
The Top 10 Outcomes from an Art Petty Live Event
One of the happy outcomes of my leadership and management writing is the opportunity to speak and work with great groups of professionals in live settings. This post outlines the Top 10 Outcomes of one of my live events. I would love to work with you and your team!