by Art Petty | Nov 23, 2020 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Strategy, The Leadership Opportunity, Think Differently
Note from Art: A version of this article appeared originally at SmartBrief on Leadership. — For hundreds of years, individuals known as alchemists searched in vain for the mythical Philosopher’s Stone, a substance that was imagined to have the properties...
by Art Petty | Nov 11, 2020 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Power-Ups, Self-Development
Part 1 in this series focused on Why We Don’t Like the Idea of Giving or Receiving Feedback Part 2 offered Seven Actions to Help You Succeed with Feedback In Part 3 of this series, the emphasis is on managing the discussions successfully with empathy and...
by Art Petty | Nov 6, 2020 | Career, Career Reinvention, Self-Development
Before You Update Your Résumé… Thinking about looking for a new job? I’ll wager the first thing you feel compelled to do is update your résumé. It’s a nearly universal reflex. And, it’s wrong. My advice is to push away from the keyboard and spend time gathering...
by Art Petty | Nov 5, 2020 | Challenging Conversations, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Self-Development
In part one of this series on succeeding with feedback, I shared the reasons and research on why we struggle with the idea and act of delivering or receiving feedback. And while it seems we’re wired not to like anything that challenges our sense of self,...
by Art Petty | Nov 3, 2020 | Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Self-Development
Do We Really Love Feedback? We all know we’re supposed to love feedback. Mostly, we’re trying to convince ourselves this is true when we offer, “I appreciate feedback—especially the constructive kind. It helps me grow.” Good words, but...
