by Art Petty | Jul 21, 2010 | Leadership, Uncategorized
Leaders at all levels struggle with this most important of performance tools: feedback. We delay delivering it, we water it down, we sandwich it in praise and obscure the message or, we avoid it altogether. Like anything else, practice makes perfect, and a few simple...
by Art Petty | Jun 23, 2010 | Decision-Making, Leadership
Note from Art: this is not a political blog and there is no intent to communicate political leanings in this post. We are witnessing an unfortunate and fascinating leadership situation that involves poor judgment, bruised egos and potentially huge implications in the...
by Art Petty | Jun 21, 2010 | Leadership
It’s often difficult to gauge whether your leadership practices are helping improve your team’s situation. I encourage leaders to look for these signs as evidence that things are heading in the proper direction: The Seven Indicators of the Effective Work...
by Art Petty | Jun 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
1. Motivated, conscientious team members and employees thrive on well-delivered constructive and positive feedback. 2. Too many managers or supervisors fear delivering constructive feedback. The fear is irrational. It tends to be focused on concerns over reactions...
by Art Petty | Jun 2, 2010 | Leadership
For a whole bunch of reasons, I really enjoyed the latest column by Dan and Chip Heath at Fast Company, entitled, “Watch the Game Film.” Professional sports teams and great athletes have long understood the power of watching game film to learn about themselves...
