The Leadership Caffeine Blog
A Manager’s Operating System and How it Guides Them
The Critical Connection Between a Manager and Engagement I work with 300 to 500 managers across my various programs and dozens more in coaching activities each year. These are individuals from every sector of our economy and operating at all levels, from the front...
A Manager’s Operating System and How it Guides Them
We’re at an all-hands, and all brains required time in our world, and the pressure is on those who manage to tap into the potential of their team members and teams. The Manager’s Operating System is a powerful tool to help create engagement and build high-performance.
Why Some Lead and Others Choose Not To
We criticize our leaders easily, yet few are willing to raise their hands and pay the price that comes with a leadership role. The most effective leaders understand the costs that come with the role and are driven by a higher purpose to help others.
Leadership Caffeine—Start Coloring Outside the Lines
From our earliest days in school, we are taught to “color inside the lines.” In a world where everything is changing, this advice might just contribute to the demise of your firm or career. It’s time to push beyond the boundaries of those lines that constrain so much creativity.
Today’s Interactions are Tomorrow’s Backstories
We all have a backstory. Somewhere, at some point in time, a comment, a gesture or an action by a person in a leadership role prompted an action that would ripple through our lives. How are your behaviors helping those around you create their own backstories?
Surviving and Thriving with Your Executive Sponsor (podcast)
In this podcast, I share ideas to help the project manager frame, form and manage an effective working relationship with the executive sponsor.
Leadership Lessons from the Classroom
If you choose to pay attention to your audience in the classroom (instead of preaching at them), you gain some powerful insights for leadership practices that support growth. Here are 4 leadership lessons gained from the classroom:
Creating Meaning, Purpose, and Flow at Work
Too many of us expect our firms or bosses to supply the meaning and purpose for our work. In reality, we control our own attitudes and have the ability to frame our work in ways that bring it to life for ourselves and our colleagues. If you aren’t finding meaning in your work, it’s time to take action.
Are Your Management Approaches Stifling Thinking?
Our behaviors as managers and educators often stifle creativity and innovation. Instead of conditioning people to conform and comply, we need to exhibit behaviors that do the opposite.
Speaking Workshop—Powerful Public Speaking by Dr. Nick Morgan
Dr. Nick Morgan, one of the leading speaking coaches in the world and the author of the Public Words blog, is running a one-day session, entitled: “Powerful Public Speaking” in Boston on October 28, 2016. During this day, you will have the opportunity to share ideas and gain insights and approaches to create your next persuasive speech.
Confessions of a Maverick Hiring Manager
Relying upon traditional hiring practices and dogma can leave your organization starved for the talent necessary to navigate the challenges facing your firm and industry. Sometimes, you have to go maverick!