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What D-Day and Other Big Decisions in History Teach Us About Decision-Making as Leaders

History is filled with examples where a decision at a moment-in-time changed the outcome. As we commemorate the courage of those who participated in the D-Day Invasion in World War II, I look at Eisenhower's decision that day and another fateful decision 80-years earlier that changed the course of a nation. Our workplace decisions aren't on the same scale, yet, the big decisions at a moment in time do change the fate of organizations. What can we learn from history here?

By Art Petty|2019-06-06T09:45:51-05:00June 6th, 2019|Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|0 Comments

One Communication Superpower We Should All Strive to Cultivate

Seeing situations through the eyes of others may be the most crucial skill you're not working very hard on in your professional or personal lives. It turns out when you do this—when you truly actually strive to understand how others view situations—the world takes on a decidedly different complexion.

By Art Petty|2019-06-03T20:35:30-05:00June 3rd, 2019|Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|0 Comments

Two Questions Every Leader Should Ask Repeatedly

As part of your leadership improvement program, it's important to ask for input. The answers and perhaps even more so people's reactions and responses to your questions offer valuable clues to where you need to strengthen your performance.

By Art Petty|2019-05-28T08:30:29-05:00May 28th, 2019|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups|0 Comments

Nine Ideas to Help You Lead Effectively in Pressure Environments

It's a fact of life as managers and leaders that we must generate results or we lose the opportunity to lead. While some environments are transactional, where the pressure for results at all costs breeds short-term behaviors, you always have the option to choose "How" you will lead. Here are nine ideas you can apply on the run to strengthen your team and promote great performance:

By Art Petty|2019-05-19T14:28:39-05:00May 19th, 2019|Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, The Leadership Opportunity|0 Comments

Great Managers Make a Hard Job Look Easy—Here’s How

My favorite part of working with good managers is their seeming superpower to make their difficult jobs guiding and engaging with team members and stakeholders look easy. Here are 8 key behaviors I've observed in these managers:

By Art Petty|2019-04-08T08:49:12-05:00April 8th, 2019|Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|0 Comments

Six Areas Managers Must Focus On to Level-Up

While we spend most of our time commiserating over bad managers and thinking and writing about seemingly super-human leaders, it’s most often the quiet, hard-working managers operating below the top-levels who make our organizations go and grow.

By Art Petty|2019-03-30T12:05:40-05:00March 31st, 2019|Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, The Leadership Opportunity|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Show Them You’re Not a Machine

It turns out that successful, effective leadership is much more than a focus on results. Here are some valuable leadership lessons learned the hard way.

By Art Petty|2019-03-25T08:59:59-05:00March 25th, 2019|Challenging Conversations, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—How Did I Affect You?

Great leaders understand a key indicator of their effectiveness is found in the answer to the question: How did I affect you?

By Art Petty|2019-03-13T08:02:44-05:00March 13th, 2019|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups|0 Comments

Free Mini-Course: How to Deal with 5 Difficult Characters

We all know these challenging characters. They're present in every workplace. The question is, how do you deal with them and get your job done? In my free mini-course, I share 5 videos with ideas and approaches you can put to work immediately with your versions of these challenging characters.

By Art Petty|2019-03-11T09:24:05-05:00March 11th, 2019|Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|0 Comments

You Know Your Leadership is Working When You Can Let Go

As leaders, we often fall victim to the belief that our teams need us to survive and thrive. In reality, if we’ve done our jobs right in selecting, developing, and placing people in the right positions, and worked hard to create a healthy environment, what they need is less of us.

By Art Petty|2019-02-13T09:50:32-05:00February 13th, 2019|Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|0 Comments

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