Leaders are constantly providing feedback to their employees. It’s a basic characteristic of leadership, yet one that is often handled awkwardly. Janice, a newly-minted department head, rose through the ranks by being very good at what she does (her expertise is...
Leadership
Leadership Moments
By Kevin Anthony Johnson, PCC. “Leadership is influencing the thoughts, feelings and actions of others.” Robert Wright A client recently shared that they’d missed an opportunity. There was a moment in the last quarter where he could’ve said something about the...
Stop Procrastinating by First Asking “Why?”
Stewart has always been a bit of a procrastinator, but he had fallen way behind schedule with performance reviews for his team. “I need to stop procrastinating!,” he shouted to himself. Is procrastination something you struggle with? Many articles, blogs, social media...
Tweaking Traditional Goal Setting for Improvement: Identity-Based Habits
By Linda Bodnar, PhD, PCC. It is well-documented that goal setting brings about change. Multiple meta-analyses of related research studies clearly show that setting meaningful, specific, and challenging goals leads to higher performance than easy, do-your-best, or no...
Could Off-Sites Be Your New “Office?”
A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran a story titled, “The Off-Site is the New Return to the Office.” The author looked at ways that leaders at various businesses across many industries are re-thinking “off-site meetings” as a way to get people back to working...
Are You Harboring Stealth Expectations?
By Rachel Verlik, PCC. Imagine this. You have had a conversation with your boss about your career interests, and you are both on the same page that you are ready for additional responsibilities. While you haven’t articulated a timeline or what those responsibilities...
Is This Meeting Necessary?
Richard was reviewing his schedule recently and realized that he routinely had six or more meetings per day. Some were brief. Some were lengthy. Some were in-person and some were virtual. More and more were hybrid. He wondered, “Are all these meetings really...
Battling Burnout
By Julianna Hynes, PhD, PCC. When the pandemic first started in 2020, I started seeing inklings of burning out in my clients. As the year continued with more and more Zoom meetings, the inklings turned into confirmations as my clients shared issues they were having,...
Authenticity: A Positive Leadership Trait for the Post-Pandemic World
Throughout the pandemic we have tallied our losses, from layoffs, closed businesses, and broken social connections to illness and death. But what have we gained during this time? It’s hard to think in these terms, but there have been positive changes. At work,...
Discover Your Behavioral Authenticity
By Vanessa Tennyson, PCC, 3CP, SHRM-SCP Behavioral authenticity is the hallmark of the Triad of Discovery©. I describe it as “The basis of your true identity; your genuine self; the heart and soul of the person who exists when no one else is looking.” A task that I...