Category Archives: Leadership Thoughts

Congratulations! You’ve been promoted and your team has quadrupled in size! Congratulations! Your mentee has been promoted and THEIR team has quadrupled in size! All sounds good until the realization...

August seems to have us getting a tad "real" with our Thought Partner Friday topics. Maybe it's the knowledge that summer is quickly ending and many of us will be getting...

Ten years ago, I had the pleasure of attending Tony Hsieh's SHRM keynote address in Las Vegas. I remember leaving his session motivated, inspired, and ready to wait in line for...

You might have heard the following before: The unsuccessful have REASONS. The successful have RESULTS.You can't have BOTH. Try these REASONS on for size: I can't move forward on this project...

As we round off this month's discussions of leadership strength, fitness and service, I challenge you to end the month by stepping step on the scale. Did you just give me...

If I were to ask you to rate your fitness level on a scale of 1 to 10, how would you do it?What parameters would you use to determine the...

Ella Fitzgerald sang it best...Summertime and the living is easy... Welcome to JUNE, Thought Partners! Summer Fridays (if you're in the Northeast or Midwest), Endless Summers (if you're on the...

As you know, this month we're focusing on ways we can feedFORWARD vs. FeedBACK. You can catch up on what you've missed here.Let's first address the elephant in the room.Quietly...

The Feedback Sandwich – the dreaded mid-afternoon snack – often served cold following the words “Let me give you some feedback.”Simply just reading that line might cause a physical reaction...

Ah, the dreaded performance reviews. When at their worst and most ineffectually done, they happen once a year, the feedback is based on recent recollections only, and neither the reviewer...