Avoid Hiring the Crazy 🤪, Lazy 🥱 or Liar 🤥
Hiring in this insane market makes it even more important that you avoid hiring the wrong person. People who lie have been doing so longer than you have been interviewing so this week’s [...]
Don’t Be So Quick To Eliminate The Hybrid Workplace
What are your thoughts on a Hybrid Workplace Model for your company and team? Many leaders are getting resistance from employees about returning to the office citing reasons such as safety, [...]
How To Deal With Annoying Co-Workers
Have a boss or co-worker who steals credit for your hard work? How about being left out of meetings or key decisions? Or, that passive-aggressive co-worker who sweetly questions your credibility [...]
How To Make A BIG Decision
If people did not have to make big decisions, professional coaches would hardly have anything to do. I find that when life presents us with a big decision, and it feels like a struggle then one [...]
Leaders: Why Your Meetings Suck and What to Do About It
If excruciating meetings were a thing pre-COVID, they are so much worse now that most of us are meeting virtually. My executive coaching clients are reporting that they are booked [...]
3 Questions I Am Asking All Leaders
Today’s coaching minute contains the questions I am asking all of the leaders I coach. Thought you might find them helpful for your team.
Six Reasons Your Co-Workers Might Dislike You
Proverb: Familiarity breeds contempt. We all have a behavioral blind spot—or two—and we might not realize that our lack of awareness may inadvertently cause some contempt toward us. As a career [...]
Virtual Teams for Dummies – Interview with Tara Powers
I am not sure about you but if I see one more piece touting “tips for virtual meetings” I will lose my mind. My clients and readers already know how to do all of that. Hello? I was [...]
Not Getting The Results You Want From Your Team?
So the team is not hitting their numbers or the projects are not getting done on time, as promised. What is a leader to do? This is one of the scenarios that really makes leadership tough stuff. [...]
The Road To Leadership HELL Is Paved With Good Intentions [Infographic]
So, let’s talk about leadership blind spots… even though you don’t really have one, of course—or so you think. But that is why they call it a “blind spot,” right? You don’t see it. I prefer to [...]
