Art Petty, Author at Management Excellence by Art Petty

About Art Petty

Art Petty is a coach, speaker and workshop presenter focusing on helping professionals and organizations learn to survive and thrive in an era of change. When he is not speaking, Art serves senior executives, business owners and high potential professionals as a coach and strategy advisor. Additionally, Art’s books are widely used in leadership development programs. To learn more or discuss a challenge, contact Art.

Last Chance to Lock-In Feedback Performance Improvement in 2018

The absence of quality feedback on the tough performance and business issues is one of the most significant maladies inhibiting performance in our workplace today. Whether it’s boss to employee, vice-versa, or peer to peer, we have to be able to talk openly about individual and group performance and cut through the noise to drive positive change. Our online, on-demand course helps you and your team solve this problem to strengthen performance.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:12:35-05:00November 13th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—It Comes from Inside

Some individuals are thrust on to a big stage and summon the strength to lead others through perilous times. For the rest of us, we are faced with almost daily opportunities to step-up and lead on the small stage. Some look the other way and others summon the strength from somewhere inside themselves to do the right thing.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:12:36-05:00November 13th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|2 Comments

In Remembrance

In honor of Veteran's Day 2018.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:12:37-05:00November 11th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Career Shift or Job Change—Which Path is Right for You?

If you’re feeling that tug of “It’s time to do something different,” it pays to spend some time sorting through whether you are best served by a job change or a wholesale career shift. As you might imagine, the two paths are radically different in scale, scope, timing, effort, and risk.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:12:38-05:00November 9th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—A Simple Hack to Resuscitate Your Positive Attitude

When your usual positive attitude takes a holiday and leaves you alone with your grumpier more cynical self, it’s time for action. And while the idea of turning in your resignation after telling off the higher-ups is a nice fantasy, it’s placing the blame squarely where it doesn’t belong. Instead, try this simple but powerful hack to bring your positive attitude back to life:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:12:39-05:00November 5th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

For Managers—The Performance Potential of a Strong Feedback Culture

Imagine there was a tool at your disposal that would help reinforce in real-time the behaviors of group members that moved the performance numbers in the right direction. Or, a tool that would get people motivated to learn, grow, and leave behind less-than-ideal behaviors in favor of new approaches and continuous improvement. Wouldn’t this be helpful? Well, there is. It’s called performance feedback. And sadly, it’s often missing-in-action, misapplied, or, applied inconsistently, and that’s just leaving money and morale on the table.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:12:40-05:00November 2nd, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

The Virtual Experiment—Guest Post by Dr. Nick Morgan

We have all become unwitting participants in a massive unregulated social experiment. For a little over a decade, we have forced ourselves to evolve from beings who communicate face-to-face, to beings who spend a significant portion of our work and personal lives communicating virtually. What’s to be done? There is no single cure. Instead, we need to learn a new language of emotion, one that begins to replace the human intent that’s left out of the virtual conversation.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:12:41-05:00October 30th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Why We Hate Feedback—And How to Give and Get More of the Right Kind

Few of us relish being on the receiving end of constructive feedback. And many of us go out of our way to delay delivery of difficult feedback to colleagues or employees. To top it off, our brain is working against us on much of the processing around feedback. Yet, you can create incredible performance gains for yourself, your coworkers and your firm if you take control of your feedback universe. Here are eight ideas to help you get started:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:12:42-05:00October 28th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Leadership Caffeine™—Lessons for Management Fixers

It's a great vote of confidence when your boss picks you to lead the turnaround of a struggling team or function. You're the management fixer, charged with figuring out what's not working and how to fix it. And while this is a great career opportunity, there are a number of ways you can misfire in this role. This article offers 7 hard won ideas to help you make the best of a team or function turnaround opportunity.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:12:44-05:00October 22nd, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

The One Question that Might Free You to Find Your Encore Career

For many of us, the idea of an encore career is an appealing fantasy that never grows closer or more tangible. At least part of the problem for why we remain locked in place stems from our attempt to answer the wrong question. Try a simple reframe of the question, "What do I want to be when I grow up?" to open the floodgates of ideas essential to help us move from fantasy to reality. We have some great design thinkers to thank for this simple, powerful reframe.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:14:33-05:00October 17th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

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