This post is part of the “Where Leadership Gets Hard” series—based on over 25 years of coaching leaders through real problems. No theory, just what I’ve seen work. Most of us grew up with the Golden Rule: treat others the way you want to be treated. It's a fine rule....
Congratulations! You've become a leader! At last, your ideas will be listened to, valued, and heeded. People will finally take you seriously. Now your impact, influence, and income will grow. Ah, the life of a leader. Issuing orders. Imparting wisdom. Developing...
This post is part of the “Where Leadership Gets Hard” series—based on over 25 years of coaching leaders through real problems. No theory, just what I’ve seen work. In most organizations, there's an unspoken rule about what belongs at work and what doesn't....
Mentors are supremely important to an aspiring leader. They are the voices whose feedback reaches our hearts and heads. They are the steady hands that firmly hold us accountable to our own potential. The polishers of our conscience, the magnifiers of our potential,...
This post is part of the “Where Leadership Gets Hard” series—based on over 25 years of coaching leaders through real problems. No theory, just what I’ve seen work. Here's a sentence that stops me in coaching sessions more often than it probably should. “He hadn’t...
In addition to providing people with tangible, skill-developing work opportunities, open-door leaders need to know how to shift people’s thinking. Real opportunities can be found in convincing people to become imaginative by freeing them from narrow, negative, or...
Maintaining good communication with co-workers is something that each individual employee must be consistently working on, with the support of informed and involved leaders, of course. Growth rarely happens by accident. More often, it’s the result of intentional...
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