26 Sep,2020 | Best Practices, Communication Skills, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Emotional Intelligence, Leader Chat, Leadership, Self Awareness, Vulnerability, Workplace Culture
Dear Madeleine,I am a division leader for a family-owned manufacturing company. The family members have somewhat antiquated views and are not particularly socially sensitive. My challenge is how to respond to the pronouns I’m seeing on recent email. For example, I am...
20 Feb,2020 | Behavior Change, Building Trust, Business Books, Communication, Culture, Emotional Intelligence, Fear, Growth, Ken Blanchard, Leader Chat, Leadership, Listening, Managing Change, Uncategorized
Constant change is a way of life in organizations today. How do managers and leaders cope with the barrage of changes that confront them daily as they attempt to keep their organizations adaptive and viable?Leaders often feel trapped in a lose-lose situation when they...
11 Jan,2020 | Career Planning, criticism, Culture, Expectations, Happiness, Leader Chat, Leadership, Parenting, Self leadership, Stress, Uncategorized, Values, Wellbeing, Work Life Balance
Dear Madeleine,I am an executive vice president at a large, fast-moving communications company. I started here as an intern. I love this company, my job, and my team—but most of all, I love to work. I have been married 15 years and have four kids, ages 4-12. My...
13 Jul,2019 | Communication, Culture, Health, Leader Chat, Leadership, Mindfulness, Performance Expectations, Power, Resilience, Self leadership, Stress, Uncategorized, Wellbeing
Dear Madeleine, I am at my limit and hope you can help. I am a senior team leader with a very high performing intact team. We have a new, very inexperienced board who is wreaking havoc with the way I run my business. They are putting nonrealistic pressures on me to...
