The Leadership Caffeine Blog
Leadership Caffeine Jam Session 4 —Rethinking Employee Career Development for This Era
I'm excited to have a great friend and fabulous expert on career development, Julie Winkle Giulioni, join the upcoming Leadership Caffeine Jam Session: Rethinking Employee Career Development for This Era on Friday, February 11 at noon central. You can register here....
Leadership Caffeine Jam Session 4 —Rethinking Employee Career Development for This Era
I’m excited to have a great friend and fabulous expert on career development, Julie Winkle Giulioni, join the upcoming Leadership Caffeine Jam Session: Rethinking Employee Career Development for This Era on Friday, February 11 at noon central. You can register here. (This will be recorded and the video, chat stream, and mind map distributed to all registrants.)
Leadership Caffeine™-Guiding Your Team off the Whiteboard into Action
Those first few steps towards action…those first movements beyond the whiteboard and into practice are some of the most difficult steps for many teams and organizations. Here are 7 ideas to help you get beyond the discussions in pursuit of change:
Leadership Caffeine™-Build Credibility through Confidence and Clarity
While there are many ingredients in the recipe for developing as an effective leader, two that provide a healthy percentage of the raw materials for your success include: people’s perception of your self-confidence, and their perception of your ability to clearly articulate yourself. Fail at one or the other, and your road to success is a good deal more treacherous.
New Leader Tuesday-A Checklist for Effective Feedback Discussions
Feedback properly delivered is a powerful leadership tool. It helps eliminate lousy behaviors and strengthen good behaviors in support of your team’s or firm’s goals. You will be well served investing the time and energy to master this important discipline. Here are 6 items to think about in support of more effective feedback discussions:
Leadership Caffeine™-Learn to Guide Group Discussions for Better Results
Too many group discussions in the workplace are journeys to nowhere in particular.Learning to actively lead group discussions is an essential skill for leaders and individual contributors in today’s project focused and heavily matrixed organizational settings. Here are 7 common group discussion traps and the techniques that the best guides use to help us side-step them:
At Least 11 More Ideas to Help You Run Effective Meetings
Having fulfilled my lifetime quota of attendance at poorly run meetings, I’ve developed a bit of a crusade mentality to guide others on how to run these sessions effectively. Here are my latest top 11 ideas for taming the meeting beast and actually getting something out of these infernal sessions. Please add to the list and we’ll all save some time and aggravation!
Leadership Caffeine™-Encourage Rethinking to Keep Your Team Sharp
Beware the dulling effect of a predictable routine on the performance of your team. It might just be the single most dangerous adversary standing between you and future success. Here are 5 ideas to help you breakthrough routine and encourage rethinking:
New Leader Tuesday-Know the Power of a Well-Placed “Thank You”
I don’t hear the phrase “Thank You” in the workplace nearly enough. It’s two simple words wrapped in one heartfelt comment of appreciation that offers up a whole heaping helping of genuine respect. All of this from one of the first phrases that Mom ever taught us.
Leadership Caffeine™-Beware the People Versus Performance Trap
Too many leaders get caught in a people versus performance trap that neither helps the people nor the team’s performance. These leaders give themselves too much credit for being able to change others, and they over-invest in the wrong people at the expense of the rest of the individuals in an organization. This pitfall of what most would describe as a thoughtful, creative and people-focused leader is all too common and left unchecked, can debilitate teams, destroy a performance culture and derail an otherwise promising leadership career.
The Destructive Power of the Words You’ve Left Unsaid
It’s the feedback that’s never given and the coaching that never occurs that keeps individuals and organizations from improving, learning and growing.