5 Indispensable Skills for New Leaders
July 27, 2021
So you find yourself in a leadership role, and it’s a little daunting. Maybe more than a little. Maybe you feel that you have to know everything and…
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How to Overcome Your Overwhelm
June 17, 2021Do you feel like it’s all just getting to be too much? If so, you are not alone. A lot of people are finding that going back to…
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7 Ways Leadership Is Bigger Than You Think
June 7, 2021What is leadership, anyway? Is it the same as it was when you first stepped into a leadership role? The short answers are “More than you think” and…
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Leaders Are Made, Not Born
May 25, 2021I wish I had a dollar for every time a senior leader has said something like this about a junior manager: “She’s been in the workforce for more…
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Communicative Competence Helps You Get Stuff Done
May 10, 2021Last time I summarized dialogue from an actual team meeting to introduce you to one model of communicative competence: Otto Scharmer’s fields of communication. Today I want to…
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Moving Past “Courteous Compliance”
April 27, 2021“We need to focus more on profitability,” said Claire, the CFO of a family-owned design firm. “Too many of our projects take too much time in relation to…
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This Message Isn’t About Reopening. (It’s about asking good questions.)
April 12, 2021My coaching client, a mid-level manager in a good-sized nonprofit, told me about a meeting for all managers at her level. The boss–we’ll call him Ward–wanted to talk…
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What to Do When Feelings Run High
March 25, 2021When teams have to make decisions that affect their personal lives, things can get ugly, fast. The ability to define terms and set boundaries can make the difference…
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Deciding How to Decide
March 17, 2021One of the things that often derails teams when they have important decisions to make is that they haven’t decided on criteria for who makes what decisions or…
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Are Your Questions Holding You Back?
March 1, 2021Organizations grow in the direction of the questions they ask. I learned this truth when I studied Appreciative Inquiry, and I’ve seen it play out countless times. Let…
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