by Art Petty | Nov 3, 2013 | Career
In Scott Eblin’s excellent book, The Next Level, he identifies one of the lower self-assessed items in his research database as: “Regularly seeks out knowledge and experience to perform at higher levels.” I don’t get it. I certainly understand Scott’s findings. My own...
by Art Petty | Oct 28, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
A good friend and leadership mentor once offered: “you know it’s a bad day at the office when your deodorant fails by 10:30 a.m.” Spend enough time managing and leading and you’re bound to run into a day that resembles this: Your right hand marketing person wants to...
by Art Petty | Oct 22, 2013 | Career, Challenging Conversations, Leadership
Welcome to part 4 of our New Leader Tuesday series on strengthening your feedback skills. Part 1 tackled the issues of fear and anxiety that keeps so many new leaders from engaging in or conducting effective feedback discussions. Part 2 emphasized the importance of...
by Art Petty | Oct 20, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Last week, I spent some time in a post offering guidance on strengthening your performance as an employee. This week, our focus returns to the individual at the top of the food chain. If this happens to be you, your team will thank you for spending a few minutes...
by Art Petty | Oct 16, 2013 | Career
While guidance on developing as a leader is plentiful…perhaps in over abundance, there’s relatively little in the daily flow of business and management writing devoted to developing as an effective employee. For just a few minutes, let’s turn the world of leadership...
