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Leadership Caffeine™—Are You the Cause of Your Team’s Creativity Deficit? 

By |2021-12-05T07:12:56-06:00November 8th, 2021|Art of Managing, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups, Leading Change, Management Innovation, The Leadership Opportunity, Think Differently|

Creativity—the ability to look at complicated situations and identify novel solutions that solve problems, advance initiatives, or rewrite old rules—may be the most critical skill of all in our workplaces. As leaders, we need to foster it, stimulate it, and do everything we can to ensure we're not the ones suppressing it. Sadly, creativity is something that many leaders trample all over in their daily activities. 

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

By |2021-05-20T10:39:16-05:00May 20th, 2021|Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Power-Ups, Self-Development, The Leadership Opportunity|

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:

Fresh Opportunities for Professional Growth (and a free resource)

By |2021-03-07T14:26:36-06:00March 7th, 2021|Art of Managing, Career, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Influence, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Self-Development|

There's never been a better time to help yourself or your team members move from good-to-great and add the skills essential for success in what will be a still-challenging world filled with new opportunities. Here's our Spring 2021 Professional Development Catalog:

Career Reinvention Journal—Four Key Tips to Help You Start Strong with Your Career Pivot

By |2021-01-29T10:59:31-06:00January 29th, 2021|Career, Career Reinvention, Self-Development, Think Differently|

Getting started with a career pivot is as challenging as getting started writing a book. Both seem like great ideas, and they're the stuff of daydreams and momentary fantasies. For the aspiring book writer or career changer, these are intoxicating thoughts until reality sets in, and we realize how difficult this work is actually to start and ultimately complete. 

Free Webinar and Early Bird Pricing for First Time Managers Academy

By |2020-09-03T12:42:07-05:00September 3rd, 2020|Career, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Strategy, Think Differently|

We've got two great professional development opportunities launching over the next few days. Our free webinar, Think Differently in a World Where All the Rules Have Changed runs on 9/9 at 11 AM Central. And, our live-online First-Time Managers Academy kicks off on 9/10. Early registration pricing for the Academy ends at 11:59 PM on 9/3.

Why the New Manager Failure Rate is So Ridiculously High (Guest Post)

By |2020-08-24T08:58:24-05:00August 24th, 2020|Career, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series|

Most everyone agrees it's critical to build a leadership pipeline in our firms. Unfortunately, when it comes to new managers at the front of this pipeline, without proper care and support, the failure rate is abysmally high. Here are five areas where new managers flail and fail along with some help to improve the situation.

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