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Special Open Enrollment Workshop—Nine Reasons to Join the Feedback Skills Boot Camp
Feedback & Tough Performance Discussions Are Stressful—But They Don't Have to Be I've trained thousands of professionals across every major sector on how to design and deliver feedback (and feed-forward) discussions that promote growth. I've learned that too many...
Special Open Enrollment Workshop—Nine Reasons to Join the Feedback Skills Boot Camp
Join me for a powerful, practical professional development experience on 11/16 from noon to 3 p.m. Central for the latest Feedback Skills Boot Camp. Three hours and an amazing price (because it’s a group) to strengthen skills that will serve you for a career.
Leadership and Management Book Podcast #5—Great Books for Developing Others
In this episode of the Leadership and Management Book Talk with Wally Bock and Art Petty, we share our favorite reads on developing others.
Leadership and Management Book Podcast #4—Great Books We Re-Read
Our focus for this episode turns to business books we read over and over again. Wally Bock and I each share two different books and make a case for why they are important parts of our libraries and of our thinking.
Still Time to Join the Experienced Manager Program
There’s no other program quite like this for experienced managers striving to level-up, with the mix of topics, guest experts, coaching, e-learning, and development support. Our Winter 2020 Cohort kicks off Wednesday, January 15, 2020, however, there’s still time to join.
Leadership Caffeine Podcast #33—Whitney Johnson
Entrepreneur and innovation and disruption theorist, Whitney Johnson, joins Art Petty on the Leadership Caffeine podcast to discuss the latest edition of her book, Disrupt Yourself.
8 Tips to Help You Succeed in High-Stress Management Meetings
As you rise through the ranks and gain responsibility in your career, you will increasingly find yourself in high-stakes communication situations with management teams or boards. Regardless of your great results, you’re likely to encounter one or more antagonists interested in devaluing you and your perspective. Here are 8-tips to help you prepare for and win in those difficult communication situations:
Ten Ideas to Help You Turbocharge Learning this Year
For each of us to truly accelerate learning, we have to fight the inertia of the routines that dominate our lives. Learning demands effort, much like exercise. It’s time to renew your membership to your mental gym.
Six Things Leaders Must Do More Of to Create Success
In case you’re short on resolutions to strengthen your success as a leader, here are six things to do more of that are guaranteed to make a difference in your effectiveness.
The Leader’s Role in Accelerating Strategy Execution
The role of top leaders in guiding strategy creation is well documented. Less understood is that once the strategy is formed and shared, the leader’s actions must focus on minimizing organizational friction—the processes, cultural nuances, and political and personal impediments that threaten the organization’s speed-of-execution.
Leadership and Management Book Podcast #3—Biographies
For this episode, the focus is on biography. Specifically, we each selected two of our favorite biographies and offer reasons why these are fabulous reads for anyone open to learning from inspirational characters.