Leader | Employee Disconnect
Leaders think they’re well tuned in to what’s happening within the organization. Employees think that leaders are NOT tuned in. What gives?
Improve the quality of your 1:1s
Tips to improve the quality of your 1:1s – from both the leader & employee perspective.
What’s your leadership style?
Think about who you are as a leader and who you want to be. Using the questions in this section, take a stab at writing out your leadership style.
What to do about underperforming employees
If you’re the leader, their performance is your responsibility. Learn what you can do about underperforming employees.
Hands-off leadership is lazy leadership
My perspective is that hands-off leadership is lazy leadership. And that is because some ~60% of our leaders have never received leadership training. We promote based on technical skills and we don’t provide leaders with the tools necessary to lead. Therefore, leaders tend to focus solely on task management and they are “hands off” with the people management aspect. And this makes sense! There’s a natural tendency to want to “get out of the way” because it’s the easy thing to do.
Leadership is Task Management plus People Management
My decades-long experience in the financial services industry showed me firsthand that leaders only focused on the task management aspect of the equation.
5 Tips for Proactive Virtual Communication at Work
Virtual communication requires more effort, more proactiveness, and creativity, but it’s crucial to the success of your organization.
What makes a good leader: Hard Traits
Traits that are more concrete and learnable. How confident do you feel with your leadership skills?
What makes a good leader: Soft Traits
Leadership characteristics that are “soft” traits: more innate to character and values-based.
5 reasons why leadership is important
Bringing awareness back to the importance of leadership and why leadership is crucial to the success of any organization.
Book recommendations for communication
The average person does not communicate well. The reality is that we bring these ineffective communication skills into the workplace. These are two powerful communication books that I read recently and highly recommend.
Reality mismatch: say vs do
Company culture: when there is a discrepancy between words (aspired culture) and reality. How to turn things around.
