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Leadership Caffeine™—Rethinking Your Team’s Business Reviews and Operating Approach

Leadership Caffeine™—Rethinking Your Team’s Business Reviews and Operating Approach

While I’ve not attended your business review session, I can tell you with confidence born of experience that most of these events are painful time, productivity, and morale killers. And, in this world where COVID has taught us that quarters are like centuries and the world shifts in hours and days, I increasingly find the ubiquitous quarterly business reviews anachronistic. It’s time to change your team’s operating approach.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Get Better Daily

Leadership Caffeine™—Get Better Daily

Developing as a leader doesn’t follow a straight line. It’s different for every individual. Focus on getting better at this job daily. Here are five ideas to help you jump-start this good work.

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Insights and Observations from the Latest Manager Development Programs

Insights and Observations from the Latest Manager Development Programs

During the past few weeks, I ran three different cohort sections of my live-online Manager Development Program. While initially geared toward new(er) managers, we had many veterans in the groups, all working on sharpening their skills around the fundamentals of leading and managing. As always, the wisdom of the crowd adds value to the pre-planned content.

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Leadership Caffeine™—How Managers Can Turbocharge One-on-Ones to Promote Growth

Leadership Caffeine™—How Managers Can Turbocharge One-on-Ones to Promote Growth

I’m consistently surprised by how few managers and executives have a game plan for their one-on-one sessions with team members. Just ask those team members, as too many describe these sessions with the boss as infrequent or inconsistent, ineffective, and in some cases, intolerable. Here are 7 ideas to help you increase the effectiveness of your one-on-one sessions for all parties:

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Feedback is Funny—Just Not in a “Ha Ha” Kind of Way

Feedback is Funny—Just Not in a “Ha Ha” Kind of Way

OK, the topic of feedback isn’t stand-up comedy funny. It’s funny as in odd because there are so many contradictions surrounding it. Here are five practices to help managers bring feedback to life as the performance-enhancing tool it is capable of being:

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