It turns out, ignoring or avoiding the political environment in your workplace is naïve and career limiting. Instead, you need to rethink and reframe your relationship with office politics and focus on building clean-power. Here are seven ideas to help:
The Leadership Caffeine Blog
Feeling Powerless at Work? Five Ideas to Help You Regain Control
In my professional travels, I encounter a large number of individuals who express extreme frustration with their working lives. Many of them admit this state of unsettledness creeps into their personal lives, sowing stress and strain along the way. While some situations are generally rotten, in many instances, it is possible to counteract a sense of powerlessness by reframing your situation and acting differently. Here are five ideas to help you regain control:
Leadership and Management Book Podcast #5—Great Books for Developing Others
In this episode of the Leadership and Management Book Talk with Wally Bock and Art Petty, we share our favorite reads on developing others.
Leadership and Management Book Podcast #4—Great Books We Re-Read
Our focus for this episode turns to business books we read over and over again. Wally Bock and I each share two different books and make a case for why they are important parts of our libraries and of our thinking.
Still Time to Join the Experienced Manager Program
There’s no other program quite like this for experienced managers striving to level-up, with the mix of topics, guest experts, coaching, e-learning, and development support. Our Winter 2020 Cohort kicks off Wednesday, January 15, 2020, however, there’s still time to join.
Ten Ideas to Help You Turbocharge Learning this Year
For each of us to truly accelerate learning, we have to fight the inertia of the routines that dominate our lives. Learning demands effort, much like exercise. It’s time to renew your membership to your mental gym.
Six Things Leaders Must Do More Of to Create Success
In case you’re short on resolutions to strengthen your success as a leader, here are six things to do more of that are guaranteed to make a difference in your effectiveness.
The Leader’s Role in Accelerating Strategy Execution
The role of top leaders in guiding strategy creation is well documented. Less understood is that once the strategy is formed and shared, the leader’s actions must focus on minimizing organizational friction—the processes, cultural nuances, and political and personal impediments that threaten the organization’s speed-of-execution.
Leadership and Management Book Podcast #3—Biographies
For this episode, the focus is on biography. Specifically, we each selected two of our favorite biographies and offer reasons why these are fabulous reads for anyone open to learning from inspirational characters.








