For Managers—Creating Clarity Via Your Coaching and Evaluation Discussions, Part 1

For Managers—Creating Clarity Via Your Coaching and Evaluation Discussions, Part 1

One of the frequent themes in my executive and emerging leader coaching and evaluation sessions and programs is confusion over how to create and sustain an effective coaching dialog with team members. This topic ranges from constructive feedback to career discussions...
Lessons from The Leap to Leader by Adam Bryant (Leadership Caffeine Jam Session #22 Rewind)

Lessons from The Leap to Leader by Adam Bryant (Leadership Caffeine Jam Session #22 Rewind)

How much wisdom and great management and leadership sense can one person bring to us? Well, if you’re Adam Bryant, author of The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership, the answer is a great deal! Adam was the guest/co-host for...
Breaking Out of a Personal Creativity Slump—Restarting Your Idea Machine

Breaking Out of a Personal Creativity Slump—Restarting Your Idea Machine

It’s a Crisis When My Idea Machine Grinds to a Halt Like many of you, ideas are my stock in trade. Whether writing the next article, designing a new workshop or course, providing strategy advisory services for a client, or supporting my coaching clients, I have...
My Summer 2023 Professional Reading List

My Summer 2023 Professional Reading List

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...