Relief for Leaders–Understand What Keeps You Up at Night
I couldn’t resist the invitation to write a post about Nicole Lipkin’s new book with this irresistible title: What Keeps Leaders Up at Night: Recognizing and Resolving Your Most Troubling Management...
View ArticleAhead of the Curve or Behind the Eight Ball? | Averting Criticism
Criticism lies in wait for us at work. Sometimes we can anticipate it and sometimes not. Most of us learn to live with a few doses of negative feedback, especially when we have the opportunity to...
View ArticleSupervising Employees Who Hate Their Jobs? Step In or Pay the Price.
Grumbling is one thing; hating quite another. Every job includes things we don’t like but hating is big. Funny isn’t it, that when we start a new job, we’re so gung-ho. The work, the challenge, and...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Aha Moment and What Solving It Means to Your Career
First there was “aha,” a term used to express surprise, pleasure, or triumph. So sayeth The American Heritage Dictionary. Then there was the “aha moment,” a phrase meaning “a moment of sudden...
View ArticleWhen Hiring an Outside Consultant Can Make a Manager’s Problem Worse
You just can’t take it anymore. You’re a manager with a supervisor whose work group is in shambles. You’ve had multiple performance discussions with the supervisor and recorded deficiencies in his/her...
View ArticleIs Your Head Ready to Explode? 4 Ways to Keep It Together. | Simplifying
“Make it stop,” you say, ”–the noise, the confusion, the stupid mistakes, the wasted time.” When our work days amount to one distraction and miscue after another, we feel caught in an endless squeeze,...
View ArticleThe Four-Eyed Supervisor: It’s All on Your Watch. | A Leadership Paradox
You either are a supervisor or likely have one. Supervisor effectiveness boils down to what you think the job is or what you want it to be. In the end, performance under the supervisor’s leadership is...
View ArticleGetting Your Head Around Supervising- Episode #1 | What’s Your Take?
Supervising doesn’t seem that hard. It sure didn’t to me at first. I never set out to become a supervisor, but I always paid attention to the supervisors I had, particularly what I did and didn’t...
View ArticleGetting Your Head Around Supervising–Episode # 2 | It Starts with You.
What does it take to provide good supervision? That’s the question I left you with after Episode #1. The quick answer: Stay connected to the needs of your employees. Supervisors affect the ability of...
View ArticleGetting Your Head Around Supervising–Episode #3 | You and Your Mistakes
So what do good supervisors do when they make mistakes? That’s the question I left you with after Episode #2. Supervising is murky. It doesn’t lend itself to measurement. Subjective evaluation, yes,...
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