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How to Mentor in a Remote Workplace
Sharpen these five skills.
Make Strategic Thinking Part of Your Job
You’re not too busy to do it.
How to Develop Your Leadership Style
Concrete advice for a squishy challenge
Every Leader Needs to Navigate These 7 Tensions
Are you an expert or a learner? A tactician or a visionary?
Your Expertise May Be Holding You Back
The deeper your knowledge, the narrower your outlook.
Put Failure in Its Place
Shame is what keeps failure from becoming wisdom.
How to Demonstrate Your Strategic Thinking Skills
Don’t be shy about bringing your ideas to the table.
3 Ways to Kick Your Micromanaging Habit for Good
You may not even realize you’re doing it.
How to Manage a Stubborn, Defensive, or Defiant Employee
First, figure out what is driving their negative behavior.
Hire Leaders for What They Can Do, Not What They Have Done
Three questions to ask about each candidate.
How to spend your first 30 days in a new senior-level role
You’ve started in a new role: congrats!
Managing an Underperformer Who Thinks They’re Doing Great
Five ways to close the gap — without crushing their spirit.
Stepping into a Leadership Role? Be Ready to Tell Your Story.
Hit the ground running with a thoughtful personal pitch.
8 Things Leaders Do That Make Employees Quit
They’re some of the most expensive mistakes you can make.
Women at Work: The Essentials: Retaining Talent on Apple Podcasts
Show Women at Work, Ep The Essentials: Retaining Talent - Apr 4, 2022
How Do I Manage Other Managers?
A leader learns how to move from managing individual contributors to managing other managers.
Michelle Obama commencement speech - Class of 2020, don’t ever let anyone say you’re too angry - The Washington Post
The good way to fire a bad employee.
Stanford B-school professor Bob Sutton says: Write a letter, focus on compassion, and hide the tissues.
Understanding the "identity mindtrap": Personal growth for the C-suite | McKinsey
If you’re shackled to who you are now, you can’t reach for who you might become next. You're stuck in the identity mindtrap.
For Female Leaders: Use Resentment as a Guide | by heather jassy | Medium
When I start working with a new female-identified coaching client, I often assign the homework of making a resentment list. This means…
How Great Leaders Manage Underperforming Teams
How can you manage an underperforming team as a new leader? Here are a few ideas to help design your approach to transforming your team into superstars.
Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional -The School of Life Articles | Formally The Book of Life
Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional - Articles from The School of Life, formally The Book of Life, a gathering of the best ideas around wisdom and emotional intelligence.
Letter to a New People Manager. As of this August, I’ve been a people… | by Arielle Silverman | Medium
As of this August, I’ve been a people manager at Pivotal for four years. I reflected on my time in this role, and wrote down some thoughts…
Do I truly want to become a manager? - Signal v. Noise
We don't consider this enough as a first-time manager. Here are 6 critical questions to reflect on when considering if you should become a manager or not.
What is Self-Awareness and Why is it Important? [+5 Ways to Increase It]
Everyone has an idea of what self-awareness is, but do you know why self-awareness matters so much in counseling? We answers questions like these.
Leadership That Gets Results
New research suggests that the most effective executives use a collection of distinct leadership styles—each in the right measure, at just the right time. Such flexibility is tough to put into action, but it pays off in performance. And better yet, it can be learned.
How to spot the warning signs of an insecure leader (and how to work with one)
We humans aren’t very good at assessing true leadership qualities and gravitate towards arrogant confidence in those in charge. Unfortunately, that is often a sign of weakness and the fallout can be tough on teams.
It's ok to say what's ok - Government Digital Service
We're hiring quite a lot of new people at GDS, and that's brilliant because there are so many new brains and new skills and new faces to get to know. It's also difficult. It's difficult for those newcomers to know …