by Art Petty | Jul 19, 2019 | Career, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Strategy
Are you feeling over-tasked and maybe a bit or a lot overwhelmed at work? If so, you’re not alone. This feeling as if you are out of control is a perpetual state of existence for too many in the workplace. It’s exhausting, and frankly, it’s not sustainable,...
by Art Petty | Jun 30, 2019 | Challenging Conversations, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
We’ve all heard that feedback is supposed to be good for us. After all, receiving feedback—especially the tough kind—is how we learn to get better. Ken Blanchard teaches us that “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” And Marshall Goldsmith helps...
by Art Petty | Jun 24, 2019 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The work of new manager development in our organizations is mostly messy. If you’re the new manager, that’s a problem. Ditto for the promoting manager. Too often we thrust our best and brightest individual contributors into this role expecting they’ll...
by Art Petty | May 6, 2019 | Art of Managing, Career, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
Succeed wildly as a front-line or first-time manager, and chances are good you’ll wake up one day and head to work and learn that everything has changed again. The disorienting promotion to manager of managers is one that receives less coverage than the plight...
by Art Petty | May 1, 2019 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
Imagine you wake up one day and head to work where you find yourself immersed in a strange situation where everything about what you do and how you do it is different. How would you feel? How would you respond? This disorienting situation is what awaits every person...
by Art Petty | Apr 8, 2019 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Let’s face it when someone loves their job it shows in their demeanor and actions. If that someone happens to be a manager, the positive perspective comes through in everyone’s demeanor and actions. Given the nature of my coaching work, I end up engaged with a...
