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Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development & Performance

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Leadership Caffeine™

Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development & Performance

Receive the Leadership Caffeine™ e-news, personal
invitations to our Jam Sessions (free development),
upcoming workshops, and the latest from the blog.

Upcoming Professional Development Programs

The Senior Manager Program

Cohort + Coaching + Expert/Guest Expert Instruction delivered over 5 months & focused on the core level-up issues for senior managers.

New(er) Manager Development Program

For new(er) managers striving to start strong .Cohort + Coaching  + Expert/Guest Expert instruction delivered over 4 months.

Performance Feedback Skills Boot Camp

feedback skills Boot camp

A 2x per year program to help you strengthen your skills with challenging performance discussions. 

  Career Reinvent Cohort+Coaching

A 3-month guided program to support your career shift. Blends cohort + coaching to help you design the right “next” for you.

We Help Professionals Level-up

Coaching & Training

Is it time to level up in your career? We help emerging leaders at all levels strengthen their skills and grow their contributions via coaching, workshop programs, and e-learning courses.

Career Pivot

For individuals focused on applying their accumulated wisdom and skills in new ways (reinventors) Art Petty’s REINVENT™ framework and coaching guide you to success.

Ideas for Growth

Almost 2,000 articles at the Management Excellence blog filled with ideas to help you grow as a professional and leader.

From the Blog

Four Steps to Harness the Power of Quality Feedback

In every healthy working environment, quality feedback flows in three directions: up, down, and sideways. Here are four steps for managers to take to bring the power of quality feedback to life on their teams.

Thank You to Wally Bock and Three Star Leadership

My good friend and mentor-from-a-distance, Wally Bock, announced yesterday that he will no longer be adding content to his fabulous and long-running Three Star Leadership Blog. Wally is shifting gears to focus on his book writing/coaching practice. In this article, I share my thanks and great regard for someone who has inspired me for years.

FIve Big Ideas to Help Get New Manager Development Right

Managers are the individuals we need to create engagement, deliver quality results, and serve as critical enablers of change and adaptation in our world. And if Gallup. is even half right with their measures of disengagement and their pointing to managers as the cause, we're failing at manager development. Here are five big ideas to help.

Reaching for the Executive Ranks? Part Two—Cultivating Executive Presence

I'm fascinated by the topic of executive presence and particularly by the feedback many receive that sounds like, "You need to work on strengthening your executive presence." This feedback typically leaves people stressed and needing clarification. In this article, I strive to demystify executive presence and offer some tips and resources for strengthening yours.

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