Leadership

Drawing from her career at PayPal, Intercom, GetYourGuide, and now as founder/CEO of Ascend (an online leadership program that empowers women) Shivani Berry shares her playbook for attracting more feedback.

Yes, it’s possible. Here are 9 practices for how to increase team accountability without squashing your team morale.

Top startup leaders and operators share a tactical manual with 25 tips for direct reports to take charge of career conversations with their managers.

Don’t just focus on results. Build your relationships too.

Rule #1: Before you start arguing, decide how you want it to end.

Four ways to get out of your own way.

Hybrid meetings introduce potential pitfalls that can prevent everyone from feeling engaged and included.

Six strategies for managers.

People respond to stories that convey vulnerability, humor, and humility.

Your company's values are the foundation upon which everything else is built, so properly defining them is a critical first step.

Frustrated with your Executive team meetings? We tapped 25 top leaders from the startup C-Suite to share their tested tips, from getting started with an executive team to crafting the agenda and tracking success. Whether you're a first-time CEO or seasoned startup leader, there are plenty of new ideas to try from folks at Superhuman, Lattice, Asana and more.

Effectively leading others starts with acknowledging your own conflicting emotions.

Poor communication is becoming more common, and it can have a detrimental effect on your business's bottom line.

Lessons from the U.S. Army.

Improve your team's density and quality of deliverables by adopting practices that allow your team to find greater purpose and satisfaction at work.

True leadership requires courage -- a willingness to peel back the onion and own your uglier layers.

The founder of Working Simply says leaders must create a culture that supports and enables remote workers to be visible, engaged, and active contributors to the team.

To realize the benefits of a generationally diverse workforce, we need to learn how to appreciate our unique preferences, habits, and behaviors.

Every so often, Google employees answer a 13-point questionnaire regarding their manager’s performance. The questionnaire’s contents reveal what, according to Google’s research, makes for effective leadership.

Micromanaging your people will stunt their growth. Here are six things you can do to avoid smothering them.

The average manager goes 10 years into their career without proper management training. Get a crash course in management from 25+ leaders.

When I tell future hires that we practice radical candor here at Front, everyone’s bought in to the idea. What’s not to like about it…

Sharp folks from across the First Round community share the small habits that great managers do, including delivering feedback with care, opening up about failure, and sending praise up the chain.

We're spending more time in meetings than ever. The sharpest folks we've interviewed share their best tips for making sure this time is well spent.

As our new podcast crosses the 30-episode mark, we've listened back to each one and plucked out our favorite pieces of advice shared by startup leaders at companies like Notion, Lambda School, Plaid, and Segment. Whether you're a long-time listener or haven't pressed play yet, we hope you find a new idea to put into practice.

Stop focusing on yourself and start focusing on your audience.

Finding the right executive coach requires you to know yourself and do some due diligence.

As the Emmy nominations stacked up for season 1 of Ted Lasso, and the anticipation builds for season 2 coming out July 23, I can’t stop thinking about Ted and the team at AFC Richmond. My daughters will tease me endlessly about my hopeless love of all sports movies and TV.

As leaders, we have a responsibility to create an environment that allows our employees to be their best selves.

Seven do’s and don’ts for managers.