by Art Petty | Apr 18, 2022 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, The Leadership Opportunity
I’m on record describing one-on-ones as some of the most valuable real estate on a manager’s calendar. These sessions are opportunities to engage, share ideas, identify plans to eliminate obstacles and frankly, in this stressful world, just connect. Unfortunately,...
by Art Petty | Jan 3, 2022 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation, Self-Development, Strategy, The Leadership Opportunity, Think Differently
The late, great management thinker Peter Drucker once offered: “We spend a lot of time teaching our leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching them what to stop.” As you search for new resolutions and ideas to grow and strengthen in your...
by Art Petty | Jun 21, 2021 | Art of Managing, Career, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Self-Development
During the past few weeks, I ran three different cohort sections of my live-online Manager Development Program. While initially geared toward new(er) managers, we had many veterans in the groups, all working on sharpening their skills around the fundamentals of...
by Art Petty | Jun 7, 2021 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups, Think Differently
One-on-Ones are the Most Valuable Real Estate on Your Calendar I’m consistently surprised by how few managers and executives have a game plan for their one-on-one sessions with team members. Just ask those team members, as too many describe these sessions with...
by Art Petty | Mar 23, 2021 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Self-Development, Think Differently
There’s a great deal we don’t get right in our organization when developing our first-time managers. We under-appreciate the complexity of the transition from contributor to manager. In many environments, “sink or swim” is still the predominant...
