The power of effective communication is clear. No matter how refined, insightful, or world-beating your thoughts and ideas are, if you are unable to articulate…
Category: Management
If you’re like me, you’ve probably experienced a variety of terrible one-on-one meetings. As an employee, maybe you’ve seen the calendar reminder pop up and…
To retain talent, most organizations offer the typical things: free coffee and tea in the break room, competitive benefits, generous raises and bonuses, and employee…
“How to conduct an exit interview?” I recently was asked this by an executive who is a 1:1 leadership coaching client of mine. He’d become the CEO…
In most companies, success at the lower rungs of an organizational hierarchy often means moving up — to management, more responsibility, and higher levels of…
If you’ve ever found yourself working for a difficult manager, you probably took away some valuable insights for how you don’t want to work — and how you…
As a founder, manager and creative, I crave feedback, from everywhere — from my customers, from my employees, from my investors. Feedback helps me to…
I’ve read a lot of articles about what a waste of time meetings are. Gary Vaynerchuk suggests we cut our meetings in half. Dan Kim calls recurring meetings “soul…
Which leaders are likely to leave their organizations in a state of grace, and which ones are likely to leave them in a state of…