The Leadership Caffeine Blog
Mid-Week Career Caffeine—Overcoming Your Fear of Risk
The number one reason experienced, capable professionals relegate ideas of a career change to daydreams or fantasies is the fear of risk. After all, shifting from the work, firm, or vocation that's paying the bills feels inherently risky. However, what if there were a...
Mid-Week Career Caffeine—Overcoming Your Fear of Risk
The number one reason experienced, capable professionals relegate ideas of a career change to daydreams or fantasies is the fear of risk. After all, shifting from the work, firm, or vocation that’s paying the bills feels inherently risky. However, what if there were a way to manage and mitigate the majority of the risk involved with a career change? Would that make you more comfortable pursuing the career you believe is right for you at this stage of your life? I think so. Learn more in the latest Mid-Week Career Caffeine video.
Guest Post: The Trouble with Leadership By The Numbers
Today’s guest post is from Scott Spreier, head of the Leadership and Talent practice (Federal Sector) at Hay Group, a global consultancy.
An excerpt: After months of crunching numbers, a team of their top statisticians cracked the code on what it takes to be a good leader. Their finding, as reported by The New York Times, was that what employees valued most in their managers was not technical expertise but “even-keeled bosses who made time for one-on-one meetings, who helped people puzzle through problems by asking questions, not dictating answers, and who took an interest in employees’ lives and careers.” Now, is that surprising?
The Millennial View-Don’t Be: “Young & Distracted”
Millennials love communication and technology. It’s one of our greatest strengths and it gives us an invaluable skill to present to employers and teach to others. Sometimes stories surface on Millennials who become easily distracted with this talent causing them to lose focus on what really matters – their careers.
Leadership Caffeine™: 5 Ideas for Creating a Tenacious Culture
Tenacity is one of those common attributes of most successful people. It’s often one of the key missing ingredients of chronic underachievers. Here are 5 ideas for cultivating a tenacious culture on your team.
Management Week in Review for March 18, 2011
Every week, 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 why you need to know more about Baldrige, rethinking your ideas on measuring marketing ROI and the powerful impact of Social Business on your firm’s reputation and ultimate success.
Management Excellence Toolkit-Part 4: Improve Your Estimating and Forecasting Effectiveness
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 this segment, I focus on the issues surrounding forecasting and estimating errors, and I offer a number of ideas to improve performance for these important activities.
Leadership Caffeine™-The Artful and Effective Workplace Apology
The apology is an often over-looked and widely misunderstood tool for keeping smoldering bridges from burning out of control and for repairing relationships that were dented somewhere in the chaos of daily battle. It’s also a tool easily misused by people uncomfortable in their roles and seeking to buy compliance by apologizing their way forward.
Management Week in Review for March 12, 2011
Every week, I share three thought-provoking management posts for the week. This week’s selections feature content on the joy of work as a craft, responding to failure and exploring the latest thoughts from leading bloggers at the March Leadership Development Carnival.
The Millennial View: Fired for Facebook
Facebook is fun, but there are Millennials and many others that are oblivious that social media could cost them their career. I’ve seen profiles with pictures that look like a Jersey Shore party, people who use language that makes them sound like Eric Cartman, and I’ll never forget when a past acquaintance sent me a friend request. Their photo was a mug shot.
Management Excellence Toolkit-Part 3: How to Frame Your Decisions for Success
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 this 3rd Part of an on-going series, we tackle the issue of properly framing issues to improve idea generation and decision development.