by Art Petty | Nov 10, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The Leadership Caffeine series is approaching 200 installments strong and is dedicated to every aspiring or experienced leader seeking ideas, insights or just a jolt of energy to keep pushing forward. Thanks for being along for the journey! — I’ve written about...
by Art Petty | Nov 5, 2013 | Challenging Conversations, Leadership
Welcome to part 5 of our New Leader Tuesday series on strengthening your feedback skills. Part 1 tackled the issues of fear and anxiety that keeps so many new leaders from engaging in or conducting effective feedback discussions. Part 2 emphasized the importance of...
by Art Petty | Oct 28, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
A good friend and leadership mentor once offered: “you know it’s a bad day at the office when your deodorant fails by 10:30 a.m.” Spend enough time managing and leading and you’re bound to run into a day that resembles this: Your right hand marketing person wants to...
by Art Petty | Oct 22, 2013 | Career, Challenging Conversations, Leadership
Welcome to part 4 of our New Leader Tuesday series on strengthening your feedback skills. Part 1 tackled the issues of fear and anxiety that keeps so many new leaders from engaging in or conducting effective feedback discussions. Part 2 emphasized the importance of...
by Art Petty | Oct 20, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Last week, I spent some time in a post offering guidance on strengthening your performance as an employee. This week, our focus returns to the individual at the top of the food chain. If this happens to be you, your team will thank you for spending a few minutes...
by Art Petty | Oct 9, 2013 | Career, Just One Thing, Leadership
I was struck by the simplicity and power of an observation from one of the (early career) participants in a recent leadership program of mine. After studying different styles and approaches and examples of leaders, he indicated that he was walking away from the...
