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Fall 2022 Leader and Manager Professional Development Programs

By |2022-08-15T19:37:32-05:00August 15th, 2022|Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Influence, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, The Leadership Opportunity|

It's Back-to-Professional Development Time and I'm sharing my current Fall, 2022 calendar. If strengthening your skills as a leader or your success as a manager is on your priority list (or is a priority for your team members), please consider one of our uniquely powerful programs that blend training and coaching.

Why You Need to Write the Manifesto for Success with Your Group

By |2022-01-30T11:33:52-06:00January 30th, 2022|Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Think Differently|

Clarifying your group’s values or creating a Manifesto for Success gives substance and meaning to the working environment you want to bring to life with your group members. This activity is essential and impactful whether you are leading a senior management team, a functional group, or a project team.

Help Aspiring Managers Explore and Experiment Before Leaping into the Role

By |2021-02-22T08:59:30-06:00February 22nd, 2021|Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series|

Moving from contributor to manager is one of the most awkward transitions a person will undertake in their working life. It's an unnatural act, where you take almost everything you know about success in your day job and push it over into the "Never Mind" column.Instead of perpetuating the "hope" approach to identifying and developing new managers, try my favorite question, "Why manage?" three times, backed by some exploration and experimentation.

Leadership Caffeine™—A Haunting Tale of Critical Conversations Left Unspoken

By |2020-12-06T14:34:48-06:00December 6th, 2020|Art of Managing, Career, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Self-Development|

Here's what happens when my long-standing fear of the "conversations never spoken" in the workplace collides with a fresh viewing of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol. With my sincere apologies to Charles Dickens, enjoy this fun piece with a point. –Art

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.

Rethinking Your Management Approach and Your Team’s Operating Routine in Real-Time

By |2020-04-10T09:04:26-05:00April 10th, 2020|Art of Managing, Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation|

In talking with top executives, it’s no surprise that one of the biggest challenges they are facing is transferring their well-established operating routines into an online/virtual format. Many managers are learning their well-honed cadence and schedule of activities to review, plan, and communicate no longer works in a virtual world.

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