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.

New Manager Development—Put Your Back Into It

New manager development in many organizations is ad hoc at best and non-existent at worst. And while short-term pressures often drive sudden decisions to move people into first-time manager roles, the potential for misfiring is high. For managers responsible for identifying and developing new managers, effort expended ahead of time in assessing the individual's fit for the role pays dividends for all parties. Of course, this takes some time and effort ahead of the need. As my old boss would say, "You have to put your back into it."

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:14:44-05:00September 17th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Career Reinvention is Never a Straight Line

There's a process to reinventing your career. Unfortunately, for those who like things nice and tidy and linear, the process regularly involves pivoting and back-tracking plus the occasional unanticipated course correction. And while there's no straight line or stage-gate process, the general flow of your career reinvention work eventually passes through these six steps.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:14:45-05:00September 13th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

The High Cost of Feedback Left Unspoken

I fret over feedback poorly provided. I also recognize that not all feedback is worth listening to—a great deal depends upon the source and the motivations of the feedback giver. However, I worry a great deal about the incredible and immeasurable cost of important feedback never given. As Deming suggests, this value is unknown and unknowable. And that worries me.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:14:46-05:00September 12th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Effective Leaders Understand the Need to Create an Emotional Connection to Strategy

It’s no secret that top leaders and their management teams struggle with strategy. After all, choosing a direction, saying “no” to other opportunities and then creating a blueprint for organization-wide involvement is one of the most difficult challenges of organizational life. This challenge is made easier however, when leadership ensures all employees have the opportunity to internalize and develop an emotional connection to the strategy.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:15:02-05:00September 4th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

The Curious Case of Translating Curiosity into Action in Your Organization

I love curious managers, teams, and individuals. Curiosity is the stardust of creation in our organizations. And while the questions and the explorations and the discoveries are all fascinating, what we as organizational leaders have our sights set on, is realizing ideas that turn into changes that promote positive outcomes. Here are three ideas to help improve your ideas-to-outcomes results:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:15:04-05:00August 27th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|2 Comments

Proper Care and Feeding of Your First-Time Managers

There are few activities in your management career that offer the high return-on-time-invested (ROTI) than actively engaging and supporting your newly promoted first-time managers. Here are four essential activities to help guide your efforts

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:15:05-05:00August 21st, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

When Proposing Change, Try Reducing the Threat Level First

Good managers work hard at pushing fear out of the workplace. Yet, even in the healthiest of organizations, fear’s close cousin, anxiety, worms its way into our consciousness and governs how we process and react to the idea of change and each other. Skilled change leaders in the workplace understand this human reaction to new and different ideas and work hard to reduce the threat level when proposing something new.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:15:06-05:00August 19th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|2 Comments

Art of Managing—The Never Ending Fight for Your Firm’s Future

Great management teams are hungry to win in the moment and relentless at building for the future. It takes discipline and deliberate efforts to separate the here and now from an imagined but uncertain future—yet success over time demands this effort and discipline. Here are four big behaviors of management teams succeeding today while fighting hard for a great future:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:15:07-05:00August 13th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

The Communication Advice that Made My Career

We all receive advice during our career journeys. In my case, one piece of advice I received early in my career stuck with me and served as a constant reminder to the key to success. Here's that advice along with my add-on based on over three decades of putting the guidance to great use.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:15:08-05:00August 8th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Stop Talking and Start Drawing to Create Communication Clarity at Work

When you're struggling to create clarity on an important topic or navigating a heated group discussion, it pays to stop talking and start drawing. This sudden shift in medium takes the negative energy out of discussion and focuses your audience on designing a way forward. Here are 7 tips to help you get to the whiteboard in pursuit of communication clarity:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:15:09-05:00August 5th, 2018|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|8 Comments

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