Ask most managers if they have regular one-on-ones with their team and they’ll say yes. Absolutely. Every two weeks, without fail. Ask their team members what those meetings feel like, and you’ll hear something different. “It’s basically a status update.” “He talks […]
Nobody calls me when the leader is the problem. They call me when the team is underperforming, when attrition is high, when collaboration has broken down, when results are below expectation. The assumption, almost always, is that something is wrong with the […]
Three weeks after one of the best leadership presentations I’ve ever sat through, I was running listening sessions with frontline teams in four regions of the same company. I kept waiting to recognize the message. I never did. The senior leadership of […]