New Leader Tuesday: Teaching is More Powerful than Criticizing

Confession time. I started by titling this post, “Even Experienced Leaders Make Rookie Mistakes,” because I’m the culprit here. I recently committed the classic gaffe of assuming that I had reasonably set expectations for performance around a set of fast moving, first-time activities. When the results didn’t meet my very clear (to me) expectations, I became a bit agitated until it dawned on me that I owned this issue.

By |2016-10-22T17:11:16-05:00January 7th, 2014|Leadership|0 Comments

Politics and the New Leader

As your responsibility in guiding and managing others grows, you are increasingly involved in the organizational dialog around budgets, projects and talent. Congratulations, you've entered the political arena in your workplace where power and influence decide who goes where and which teams and projects are on the receiving side of new investment. Here are 3 ideas for playing in your firm's political arena while maintaining your integrity:

By |2016-10-22T17:11:17-05:00December 10th, 2013|Leadership|0 Comments

New Leader Tuesday—The Feedback Series, Part 3: The Ingredients

Welcome to part 3 of The Feedback Series at Management Excellence. In part 1, we tackled the issues of fear and anxiety that keeps so many new leaders from engaging in or conducting effective feedback discussions. Part 2 emphasized the importance of assessing the feedback situation and establishing a direction for the upcoming discussion. Now, it’s time to understand and begin assembling the key ingredients in every feedback discussion.

By |2016-10-22T17:11:19-05:00October 8th, 2013|Leadership|0 Comments

New Leader Tuesday—The Feedback Series, Part 2: Classifying the Feedback Situation

While feedback is best served warm (as close to the behavioral occurrence as possible), a few quality minutes of proper preparation will dramatically improve both your confidence for engaging in the discussion and your ability to conduct a high quality discussion. An important first step after observing the positive or negative behavior is to develop an understanding of the nature of the situation and to assess the right approach to support the behavioral improvement.

By |2017-12-08T07:37:49-06:00October 1st, 2013|Challenging Conversations, Uncategorized|0 Comments

New Leader Tuesday—The Feedback Series, Part 1: Moving Beyond Fear and Anxiety

Over the next few "New Leader Tuesday" posts, I will share ideas and approaches to help first-time or early career leaders navigate those initial feedback and performance discussions. The goal of the series is to help you get started with feedback early in your tenure, well-armed with good habits. Part 1 focuses on debunking the myths that keep so many managers from tackling these important discussions with their team members.

By |2017-12-08T07:38:00-06:00September 24th, 2013|Challenging Conversations, Leadership|0 Comments
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