Managing can be rewarding and exciting. It also can be disastrous for your career. Before making the move to manager, ask and answer these 10 questions:
Thinking of Becoming a Manager? Pause and Consider These Questions
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Leadership Caffeine™—Ten Essential Behaviors for Emerging Leaders
While some leadership behaviors are timeless, the context in which we lead is ever-changing. Here are ten leadership behaviors for emerging leaders in our era of volatility and uncertainty.
Your Open Door Policy Needs to Be Closed for Good
While the intent of the statement, “I’ve got an open door policy” is mostly positive, it’s naive and out of time and sync in a world where managers are accountable for closing the power gap between themselves and their group members. Get up and get out and narrow the power gap while doing some good.
Fear, Self-Confidence, and Challenging Conversations
Real progress in the workplace occurs through challenging conversations. Unfortunately, fear and a lack of self-confidence often get in the way of us conducting these conversations. Here are 4 steps to help quell your fear and grow your self-confidence.
Webinar: The Six Challenging Conversations You Must Master to Succeed
Simply stated, challenging conversations are where we mine the gold from our leadership and management efforts. It’s too bad we spend so much time delaying or dodging these discussions. When we do engage, often, we muddle our way through and leave money and performance on the table. Join me for my free webinar on the six challenging conversations at work you must learn to master to succeed.
Transform Your Effectiveness with a Leadership Journal
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most effective. In this article, I share six ideas on how to use a leadership journal to strengthen your performance through continuous daily improvement.
First-Time Manager #17—Effective Managers Clear the Path
As a manager, you have an incredible number of opportunities every single day to help your team members move further faster. Here are 5 ideas to help you clear the path and promote progress on your team:
Succeeding as a First-Time Manager: Online Development plus Mentoring
The shift from individual contributor to first-time manager is one of the most challenging in all of organizational life. My Succeeding as a First-Time Manager online plus mentoring program is designed to help new managers build a strong foundation and gain access to the tools and approaches essential for success.
First-Time Manager #16—Behaviors that Build Credibility
Credibility is the manager’s currency. Without it, you are bankrupt. Here are 16 behaviors to help you build this critical store of value as a manager:
Leadership Caffeine™—Moving Beyond Bad at the Beginning
Starting out as a manager and learning to lead is hard enough, without the obstacle course of doom many of our organizations set for us. However, there are some approaches that can help you move beyond “bad at the beginning.” Here are 3 leadership hacks to help smooth the process a bit: