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.

Management Excellence Toolkit: Part 1-Create a Decision Journal

Your decisions define you as a leader and a manager, yet we spend very little time in our busy lives finding ways to improve our abilities in this area. This Management Excellence Toolkit Series will help you recognize the challenges and pitfalls of individual and group decision-making and offer ideas on improving performance for you and your co-workers. In Part 1, I offer guidance on creating a Decision Journal for key and strategic decisions to monitor your effectiveness over time.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:52-05:00February 9th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|3 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Learn to Make Quick Connections

In a typical day fast moving day, there are dozens of small opportunities for leaders to make or strengthen connections with team members and peers. Effective leaders strive to leverage these fleeting moments or as golden opportunities to show respect, strengthen connections and even support coalition building. The trick is to execute a deliberate “connection” strategy throughout your day.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:53-05:00February 7th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|16 Comments

Management Week in Review for February 4, 2011

Every Friday, I share three thought-provoking management posts for the week. Fair warning: I take a broad view of management, so my selections will range from leadership to innovation to finance and personal development and beyond. This week's selections feature content on assessing whether an executive coach might be right for you, dealing with the dilemma of having promoted the wrong person into management and knowing when it makes best sense to speak up or to remain quiet. Enjoy!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:55-05:00February 4th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|9 Comments

Digging Your Way Out After the Brainstorm

There are many forms of ideation and all sorts of new tools available to facilitate web-based and remote brainstorming. The same issue in this post applies regardless of method: what are you going to do with the output?

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:56-05:00February 1st, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|8 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: 9 Ideas for Strengthening Your Self-Esteem

While typically not a topic discussed over coffee, many leaders struggle with issues of low self-esteem. They question their abilities to cope with the problems at hand, they often doubt they are worthy of the position of leadership they occupy, and they most definitely agonize quietly over much of their professional existence. Others manifest their low self-esteem with over-the-top aggressiveness and strong controlling behaviors. Here are 9 suggestions for helping rebuild your leader's self-esteem.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:57-05:00January 31st, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|9 Comments

Management Week in Review for January 28, 2011

Every Friday, I share three thought-provoking management posts for the week. Fair warning: I take a broad view of management, so my selections will range from leadership to innovation to finance and personal development and beyond. This week's selections feature content on dealing with difficult people, learning and avoiding the pitfalls of inexperienced management teams, and recognizing the need as leaders to appeal to the hearts of the people on our teams.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:58-05:00January 28th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|4 Comments

How to Handle a Feedback Attack from Your Boss

The tales that particularly bother me are the ones where the hard working employee is on the receiving end of a long laundry list of vague criticisms lacking supporting examples, and with expiration dates of many, many months ago. These unfortunate feedback discussions are all about ego on the part of the giver and are perceived as a sneak attack by the receiver. The giver walks away feeling like he executed on his management tasks, and the receiver walks away feeling like he was executed. People appropriately describe feeling angry, confused, frustrated and depressed after one or more feedback attacks. While there’s no doubt this is a tough situation for the receiver, there are a number of strategies that can take the sting out of the attack and potentially help build or repair your relationship with your boss in the process.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:59-05:00January 26th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|23 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: If You’re Walking on Eggshells, Something is Wrong

Too many managers spend too much time walking on eggshells. They either avoid the Attitude Bullies or, they deal with them in a manner that reinforces aberrant behaviors. You’re much better suited to sweep the eggshells out of the way and engage to either build a better relationship or establish the basis for ending the relationship.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:36:00-05:00January 24th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|16 Comments

Management Week in Review for January 21, 2011

Every Friday, I share three thought-provoking management posts for the week. Fair warning: I take a broad view of management, so my selections will range from leadership to innovation to finance and personal development and beyond. This week's selections feature content on writing a great speech, overcoming those personal issues that limit your success and words of wisdom from an advertising giant via a management giant. Enjoy!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:36:01-05:00January 21st, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|6 Comments

Nine Key Professional Capabilities Required By Our Times

There’s no doubt we live in interesting times…a true Dickensian Best of Times, Worst of Times environment, filled with remarkable opportunities and equally remarkable personal, competitive, societal and global challenges. Over the past few years and few thousand contacts with professionals on the topic(s) of developing as a professional and developing as a leader, a number of key “capabilities needed for success in these times” have emerged as recurring themes in discussions and group settings. Importantly, these themes or as I describe them, Capabilities, Attributes & Behaviors (CABs) are essential for success at both the individual and organizational levels.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:36:03-05:00January 19th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|9 Comments

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