Category: Leadership
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Mentorship Levels-Up Skills
When you build a coaching culture where peers, leaders, and supervisors are engaged with curiosity and listen deeply to each other, they begin to find common ground and develop empathy. Cross-departmental teams who previously fought over resources or power now begin to see how they are all connected and working toward the same goals. Mentorship is…
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Navigating the Space Between Yes and No
In today’s fast-paced work culture, it feels like there are more demands and priorities than can be completed in an average workday. Because of the overwhelm, many of us tend to show up to meetings already braced to “say no” to new assignments that come up. Saying “no” sometimes is absolutely important and not always…
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Is your storytelling brain keeping you up at night?
Unproductive speculation is what we name as “future tripping” in Navigating Challenging Dialogue®. It’s worrying about what might happen in the future while missing what is happening right now – like sleep. When you’re engaged in future tripping, your brain is spinning stories that seem to be an attempt to help you problem-solve something that…
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How to Handle Hinting
Here’s a situation many of my clients face:“How can I deal with someone who hints instead of directly sharing information with me? I often feel blindsided when a project goes off track. And when I finally discover that things have gone wrong, one of my staff people says, ‘I tried to tell you last week.’…
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Culture Challenges
When I am asked to help with positive culture building, I am often called in by leadership who wants to point fingers at their employees’ behaviors and attitudes as what needs to change. Often, when it comes time for coaching, training, and consulting, the executives want me to focus on staff. They say that they are…
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The Silent Majority
Here is a tough fact: As your status and power elevate within the workplace, so too does the potential for people to: disagree, make assumptions, criticize your decisions and how you lead lay blame at your feet for things you had no control over In other words, you can become a target for a frustrated…
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How You Create a Coaching Culture
The world of work is changing. Employees are seeking workplaces where trust is high, there are opportunities to use their unique strengths, skills, and talents, and they feel supported but not micro-managed. Coaching is the tool that will help you to foster this kind of culture in your workplace. But you must be courageous enough…
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The Power of Easeful Re-Entry
The swift river that is work and the emotions associated with work continues to flow while you are gone. In order to successfully jump in, you must be well nourished, well rested, and well organized. Otherwise you can end up flailing, being swept away and barely able to keep your head above water, just like…
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Rethinking 1:1 Check-Ins
One of the best ways to increase employee engagement is with 1:1 Check-ins. However, 1:1 Check-ins are one of the most dreaded and least thought about tools in the engagement toolbox. Let’s talk about making check-ins more effective, efficient, and valuable.
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Positive Empathy – An Easy Way To Shift Culture
When hearing empathy discussed, it is mostly in terms of meeting someone where they are at when they are experiencing distress. But I find positive empathy even more intriguing because of the benefits to both parties. Researchers suggest that people who practice positive empathy build stronger bonds with those around them and are more open…