12 Sep,2020 | Best Practices, Career Planning, First Time Manager, Leader Chat, Leader Development, Leadership, Leading
Dear Madeleine,I have a new boss who just offered me the role of lead for a team I have been on for about seven months. Our former lead (who, frankly, wasn’t great at leading) left suddenly a month ago. In the leadership vacuum I kind of stepped up, and nobody seemed...
13 Aug,2020 | "Leadership Development", Alignment, Best Practices, Change Management, Corporate Culture, Executive Development, Growth, Innovation, Leader Chat, Leader Development, Leadership, Organizational Change, Performance Management, Research, Strategic Leadership
The business world has always moved fast. Now it’s in overdrive.We’ve been talking internally about the “Great Acceleration” for a few months now, so it was fun to see McKinsey report on the concept in a recent piece. One quote dramatically...
1 Aug,2020 | Best Practices, Communication, Executive Development, Growth, Leader Chat, Leader Development, Leadership, Personality, Self Awareness, Temperament
Dear Madeleine, I am a senior business leader for a global manufacturing company. I recently was on a panel with an officer of our company—not my boss, but a peer of my boss. He was very impactful with his remarks; I was okay but not nearly as sharp. Later, when...
11 Jun,2020 | Behavior Change, Best Practices, Building Trust, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Engaging Employees, Happiness, Leader Chat, Leader Development, Leadership, Listening, Relationships, Servant Leadership, Talent Management, Uncategorized, Values, Vulnerability
“I’m sure you’ve heard the saying People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. And that is so true for anyone who is in a leadership role today,” says Kathy Cuff, senior consulting partner at The Ken Blanchard...
9 Jun,2020 | Executive Development, Growth, Leader Chat, Leader Development, Leadership, Mindfulness, Research, Self Awareness, Servant Leadership, Uncategorized, Values, Vulnerability
As an antidote to the negative consequences of personality-based leadership theories, new generations of leadership, learning, and talent development professionals are rediscovering servant leadership. That’s great news for those of us who believe that simply...
22 Feb,2020 | Behavior Change, Best Practices, Coaching, Executive Development, Growth, Leader Chat, Leader Development, Leadership, Managing, Relationships, Self Awareness, Uncategorized
We’ve just celebrated the fifth anniversary of this blog. My goal has been to host an advice column for you, the well-intentioned manager. Over the past five years we’ve looked at over 200 different questions from people working to lead at a higher...
