The Leadership Caffeine Blog
Four Ideas for Leaders to Get Back-To-Learning this Fall Season
Why I Love September for the Back-to-Learning Feeling It’s funny how the cycle of our earlier lives carries through into our later years. For my entire life, I’ve loved the back-to-school time of the year. I still focus my post-Labor-Day schedule on kicking off new...
Four Ideas for Leaders to Get Back-To-Learning this Fall Season
We need more time to adjust our altitude to see the big picture in our industry or peer over the horizon in search of trigger events that might change everything. Here are four ideas to help stimulate leader learning.
Surviving and Thriving with Your Executive Sponsor (podcast)
In this podcast, I share ideas to help the project manager frame, form and manage an effective working relationship with the executive sponsor.
Leadership Lessons from the Classroom
If you choose to pay attention to your audience in the classroom (instead of preaching at them), you gain some powerful insights for leadership practices that support growth. Here are 4 leadership lessons gained from the classroom:
Creating Meaning, Purpose, and Flow at Work
Too many of us expect our firms or bosses to supply the meaning and purpose for our work. In reality, we control our own attitudes and have the ability to frame our work in ways that bring it to life for ourselves and our colleagues. If you aren’t finding meaning in your work, it’s time to take action.
Are Your Management Approaches Stifling Thinking?
Our behaviors as managers and educators often stifle creativity and innovation. Instead of conditioning people to conform and comply, we need to exhibit behaviors that do the opposite.
Speaking Workshop—Powerful Public Speaking by Dr. Nick Morgan
Dr. Nick Morgan, one of the leading speaking coaches in the world and the author of the Public Words blog, is running a one-day session, entitled: “Powerful Public Speaking” in Boston on October 28, 2016. During this day, you will have the opportunity to share ideas and gain insights and approaches to create your next persuasive speech.
Confessions of a Maverick Hiring Manager
Relying upon traditional hiring practices and dogma can leave your organization starved for the talent necessary to navigate the challenges facing your firm and industry. Sometimes, you have to go maverick!
Fight Inertia
Recognizing the need to change something in your life or career is an essential first step. Breaking the bonds of the inertial forces that keep you tethered to the status quo is the hard part.
Legacy Beliefs—The Ties that Bind
Legacy beliefs exert a powerful force in our organizations and in our own lives. When those beliefs no longer match the external reality, our personal and business strategies come crashing down. Yet some leaders and professionals find a way to break away from the ties that bind.
Leadership Caffeine™ for the Project Manager eBook Now Available!
I am excited to announce the launch of my latest book: Leadership Caffeine for the Project Manager (and anyone responsible for leading teams, groups or committees). This e-book only offering is available at Amazon, Apple and Barnes and Noble or at my site. And every purchaser is entitled to a free download copy of my supporting workbook: Power Tools for Project Managers. Use the ideas and approaches in great project, career and team development health!