Don’t Act Now

It’ll happen in the next five minutes. You might not even make it to the end of this post before it does. A member of your team is on…

How to Ask for Feedback From Your Peers

In our quest to grow, we often find the same types of situations repeating themselves in our life. We sense that something is off, that there’s something about how we’re showing up that keeps drawing this theme, but we can’t get enough “fidelity” on the…

Is Your Team Being Held Hostage?

It’s the most common thing I hear when I talk to CEOs and Founders.

It’s the same thing I hear from the managers I talk with — from Senior VPs to first-time team leaders and every kind of leader in between. It’s the same thing I told myself over…

Turn Your Feedback Inside-Out

There’s a lot of talk these days about helping managers give more feedback to employees. What if it’s not a…

How to Stop Worrying About Being Liked and Risk Being Loved

Accountability without mentoring is heartless.

Mentoring without accountability is pointless.

To create a culture of personal ownership you have to have both.

Have You Closed Your Team?

How do you measure your impact as a people manager? How can you make this seemingly intangible part of your role tangible?

Think about it in terms of sales.

Recovery and Release

It’s common to pull back into your comfort zone after taking a new risk.