by Art Petty | Sep 19, 2018 | Art of Managing, Career, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The Situation: The door opened, and Beth’s manager ushered her into a crowded room of senior managers gathered around the executive conference table. It was quiet, and she broke the silence with an enthusiastic “Good morning!” There was a chorus of responses and...
by Art Petty | Aug 19, 2018 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Good managers work hard at pushing fear out of the workplace. Yet, even in the healthiest of organizations, fear’s close cousin, anxiety, worms its way into our consciousness and governs how we process and react to the idea of change and each other. Skilled change...
by Art Petty | Aug 8, 2018 | Career, Challenging Conversations, Leadership
The most important piece of advice I received in my career remains, “You’ll go as far as you can communicate.” Unfortunately, I didn’t fully appreciate the power of this guidance at the time. It took time and experience and more than a few missteps for me to...
by Art Petty | Aug 5, 2018 | Career, Challenging Conversations, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
Struggling to get on the same page with someone at work? Trying to survive a group discussion seemingly out of control as participants debate and argue but fail to move forward? Try changing the medium from words to pictures, and you might be pleasantly surprised at...
by Art Petty | Aug 2, 2018 | Challenging Conversations
Crushing It With Challenging Conversations—Focused on Your Needs I have a confession to make. My newest online learning course, Crushing It with Challenging Conversations started out as a course on how to master developing and delivering feedback. As a long-time...
by Art Petty | Jul 31, 2018 | Challenging Conversations
Note from Art: With this post, I’m excited to announce my latest free webinar: Stop Dreading Mondays—Get the Fear Out of Challenging Conversations. The most critical issues in our workplaces tend to be the ones we’re not talking about! In workshops with emerging...
