by Art Petty | Jun 6, 2023 | Art of Managing, Career, Career Reinvention, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Self-Development
My friend Wally Bock publishes a reminder every year for us to make our summer reading lists. That’s my cue to build and share mine. I suspect a few of these professional development reads might trickle over onto my into my fall reading; however, it’s good...
by Art Petty | May 17, 2023 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Think Differently
As Layoffs Climb and AI Emerges, the Predictions are Flowing Like clockwork, bad news in the economy coupled with some scary new technology brings out the pundits offering exaggerated predictions for something or another. This time, the mass layoffs in techdom and a...
by Art Petty | May 15, 2023 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Self-Development, The Leadership Opportunity
Is Feedback Transactional or Transformational in Your Environment? When I ask managers about the feedback environment on their teams, I get a lot of questions, starting with, “What do you mean?” While many managers work hard to construct and deliver timely...
by Art Petty | May 8, 2023 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Management Innovation, Self-Development
Solving Managerial Challenges Together—Friday’s Leadership Caffeine Jam Session Join me and a cast of your peers from across industries and organizations on Friday, 5/12, at noon central when we come together for an hour to identify and develop solutions for...
by Art Petty | May 2, 2023 | Art of Managing, Career, Just One Thing, Self-Development
That Feeling of Creeping Irrelevance is Toxic for You In our unsettled era filled with the specter of emerging AI and an economic shift to mass layoffs in many sectors, wondering whether you are still relevant in your workplace is the stuff of sleepless nights. A...
by Art Petty | Apr 20, 2023 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy
Do These Describe Your Environment? In my programs, consulting work, and coaching, I regularly encounter these situations: Managers struggling with an employee’s performance, yet they’ve provided little to no feedback, or their feedback was watered down to...