Common sense advice to help you grow the right managers and Lead Boldly.
How Do You Know Yourself?
What new and developing managers need to know about emotional intelligence?
Leading Boldly Starts with Knowing You
What new and developing managers need to know about emotional intelligence?
Design Your Future
Lead Boldly Career Exploration guides career explorers on the path toward becoming the leaders they want to be. Leaders that others want to follow.
How Conflict Should Feel
Productive conflict is a powerful tool for solving problems and maintaining strong relationships. However, few of us know how to use conflict for good. Instead, we allow our emotions to guide our responses.
How Managers Build Trust Within a New Team
Building trust in a new team takes time and effort, but it is only way to create a productive and positive team.
Discover the Leaders on Your Team
Have you discovered the hidden leaders on your team? They are there.
The “Do You Want to Manage People?” Checklist
Leaders must understand and embrace that managing and leading others should be a conscious choice, not a happy accident that came with a raise and title upgrade.
Unleashing the Power of Multi-Generational Teams
With five generations in the workforce—Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z—managing this diverse group presents unique challenges and opportunities.
Overcome Your Resistance to Feedback
The ability to receive feedback gracefully is a skill that sets great leaders apart.
Practical Approaches to Conflict
Leaders are told to mine for, leverage, and embrace conflict to increase effectives. And they should, these strategies can lead to the best results and help teams to grow in expertise and cohesion. But unfortunately, most humans are not wired to embrace conflict or properly prepared to lead others through it effectively.
Starting a Difficult Conversation
Initiating a difficult discussion requires careful preparation and intention, which sounds easy unless you are scared, defensive, angry, embarrassed, hungry, lonely, or tired (among others).
WB Reading List: Generational Diversity, Poverty, and Extreme Ownership
What I have been reading - these 3 books are worth your time.
Empathy Isn’t Just for Clients and Customers
Empathy among coworkers is an essential element of trust and a positive work environment, which help to drive effective programs, services, and overall outcomes.
WB Reading List: Multi-tasking, conflict and courage, and unreasonable leaders
What I am reading this week.
WB Reading List: Bad things, bad feedback, and real skills
Here is what I have been reading.
Transition from Manager to Pure Management
The most challenging part of this change is completely leaving the role of individual contributor behind.
Transition to Managing Managers
Start with the simple things – clear expectations, open two-way communication, and sincere concern for your team – and you will be on the right path to success as a leader of other leaders.