by Art Petty | Mar 31, 2019 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, The Leadership Opportunity
Imagine you’re playing a video game. You’ve spent hours and hours learning the lay of the land, where the obstacles are, where your goal is, and how to fight the various baddies who attack you. Finally, you’ve made it. You’ve beaten this level—and now you have to go...
by Art Petty | Mar 25, 2019 | Challenging Conversations, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
At the time, I had no idea how to respond to the feedback: “You need to show your team you’re not a machine.” “Huh?” I was a first-time manager with two years in the role. And, I had been operating with a very wrong sense of what my job was. It took a...
by Art Petty | Mar 17, 2019 | Challenging Conversations
It’s not-surprisingly easy to engage with coworkers and project team member when things are going great. People are in good moods. Disagreements are readily laughed off and agreeable solutions easily discovered. Yes, it’s easy to be a communication superstar during...
by Art Petty | Mar 13, 2019 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
Good leaders care about creating great outcomes. Great leaders care about how they affect people. Long after everyone forgets the big deals and the numbers, they’ll remember how they were affected by you. Make sure your impact ripples positively through time....
by Art Petty | Mar 11, 2019 | Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
You know these characters! They’re present in every workplace. And while the names are different, the behaviors are the same. Resister Ray There’s Resister Ray. Ray never met an issue or person he agreed with or a change to process or approach that he...