Wake-Up Calls for Managers
For the hard parts no one prepares you for
When the path isn’t clear, the stakes are high, and the answers aren’t obvious—this is where managers struggle most.
Wake-Up Calls for Managers delivers practical, real-world guidance for navigating:
- Tough conversations
- Leading through uncertainty
- Building influence without authority
- Driving results through others
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Special Open Enrollment Workshop—Nine Reasons to Join the Feedback Skills Boot Camp
Feedback & Tough Performance Discussions Are Stressful—But They Don't Have to Be I've trained thousands of professionals across every major sector on how to design and deliver feedback (and feed-forward) discussions that promote growth. I've learned that too many...
Special Open Enrollment Workshop—Nine Reasons to Join the Feedback Skills Boot Camp
Join me for a powerful, practical professional development experience on 11/16 from noon to 3 p.m. Central for the latest Feedback Skills Boot Camp. Three hours and an amazing price (because it’s a group) to strengthen skills that will serve you for a career.
Conquering Your Fear in the Workplace
Fear in our professional lives robs us of our hopes and dreams. It keeps us from realizing our potential. Externally imposed fear from boss bullies is toxic as well. Both are capable of being neutralized.
How to Get to “Yes” at Work
Improve your success rate with important workplace “asks” with this simple behavioral change:
New Video: 3 Ideas to Help Jump-Start Your Strategy Process
Helping a group align on the hard work of strategy is…hard work. Here are 3 ideas in my latest video update to help you get people working together early in the strategy process:
Profile: The Perfect Trio for Business Success
What do marketing services, running coaching and popcorn have in common? In the case of three young entrepreneurs, it’s all about building businesses, learning and enjoying their careers.
Quit Outsourcing the Work of Finding and Developing Talent
The hard work of finding and developing talent cannot be outsourced by the manager to other functions. Effective managers understand the connection between owning this hard work and generating team and firm success.
Podcast: David A. Brock and the Sales Manager Survival Guide
Every professional involved with sales, managing sales or managing sales professionals will enjoy this fun interview with David A. Brock, author of: Sales Manager Survival Guide–Lessons from Sales’ Front Lines. Dave’s new book and his ample advice in this podcast offer priceless guidance for success in one of the most challenging roles in our workplace.
The Executive Leader of the Future by John Blakey
The world of business requires a new, broader sense of purpose that meets the expectations of diverse, global 21st century stakeholders. The imperative and the opportunity is for organizations to reach beyond profit as the single bottom-line measure of success and embrace the triple bottom-line of great financial results, inspiring relationships and a positive reputation in society as a whole.
Leadership Caffeine™—The Book and Coming Attractions!
As we approach another anniversary of the publication of my book, Leadership Caffeine: Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development, I am pleased to share some updates and coming attractions as the Leadership Caffeine family of offerings expands.
Leadership Caffeine™–Decisions and the Least Bad Option
A good number of decisions in business (and life) include choices that beg selecting the least bad option. Do we pull in that big deal with a discount incentive to dress up this quarter’s poor numbers and in the process, create a hole for the next quarter? Do we go...