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You’ll Want to Try This Surprising Twist When You Give Feedback
Standard guidelines for performance feedback call for content that’s specific, behavioral rather than personal, consistent, and delivered immediately after the triggering situation. But I’d like to...
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8 Ways to Prevent Participation and Innovation
Employees can be such a headache, especially the proactive ones! They’re always asking questions, wanting things to be either some new way or the way they used to be, or else they’re making suggestions...
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How to Stop Counterproductive Criticism and Coach Constructively
One of the most frequent concerns I encounter when I’m interviewing business people — regardless of whether they work on the frontlines or are members of boards of directors — is that they rarely hear...
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How to Lift Someone Who Falls Down on the Job
In a discussion about how to build high-performance teams, Transformational Energy Leadership podcast host Dr. Matthew Woolsey asked me a tough question: “What can leaders do when someone is really...
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How to Intervene When Something’s Not Working
During his podcast, The Soul of Business, Blaine Bartlett asked me about my method for assessing conflict and other problems; I described some of the questions I use to start to identify what’s...
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Teamwork Isn’t Useful. Here Are 5 Things That Are
During this difficult time, I’m getting numerous requests to talk about teamwork. In the midst of the pandemic, it can be harder to coordinate remote teams with so many people dealing with children,...
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How to Warn a Long-Time Employee They’re Falling Down on the Job
In our Zoom session last week, one of my executive coaching clients asked how he could give more effective correction and direction to a tenured team member. He knew what the content of the feedback...
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Will Team Coaching Improve Your Team’s Abilities and Create the Change You...
When an executive-coach colleague asked me about the benefits of learning how to do team coaching, I couldn’t give her a simple answer. She saw it as a tool for improving intrateam relationships,...
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Every Organization Has Unique Problems. Most Leaders Need Support in 3 Areas
An executive asked me the other day, “When a company hires you to fix a problem, what do you look for?” It varies from organization to organization, but I described a pretty typical set of...
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How Coaching Makes A Difference In Leadership Ability And Satisfaction
This post originally appeared on Forbes. It’s wonderful to have someone else committed to your success as a leader—giving you developmental feedback and holding you accountable in ways that foster...
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