By Marcia Reynolds There are plenty of good books about crucial and fierce and difficult conversations – and I recommend you read them. All of them come at the conversation from the personal perspective – what can you do to get your point across in an effective way. As important as this is, there is
Coaching people is a lot like growing grass. Wait, what? That’s right. In today’s episode of Remarkable TV, I’m shooting in a special location (my farm in Michigan) so I’m sharing 3 tips that will help you to coach reluctant people and that I learned when trying to grow grass. It that doesn’t hook you,
The quote to the right couldn’t be more true. While it is spot on for everyone, it is especially true for leaders. Some (relatively small) percentage of the population is naturally inclined to plan, but most of us just aren’t. So people’s (including yours and your employees’) first inclination in the face of a new project or challenge is to jump right in
As a new leader, how much time do you spend each day building, nurturing and maintaining professional relationships with upper management? Your coworkers? What about your employees? Too many people reach a leadership position and decide to focus only on building relationships with those people up the ladder or on the same rung as them. They seem
This is a guest post by Tom Cox, leadership consultant, author and speaker. One of the most common, and tragic, causes of poor work performance is that everybody assumes the definition of “good work” is obvious, so nobody ever seeks explicit agreement on what it is. When the boss (that’s you) doesn’t define “good work,” things
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