Feedback is a really important part of professional development. Sharing feedback with your team, having them give each other feedback, or getting feedback from the team are all good opportunities for team members to continuously improve and for you to …
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Team leaders have a tough job when it comes to communication. You have to adapt your communication style to get the most from team members and do it again when you’re communicating with upper management. While you’re going through hoops …
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This is part one of a two part series on presenting for leaders. You just got a message from your manager that next week you and your team will need to make a presentation to the Leadership Team on your …
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I don’t know about your organization, but it seems the word consensus gets thrown around a lot lately when team leaders are talking about team decision making. You’ve probably heard this before — “We need to get consensus on that.” …
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Remember the days when companies would spend thousands of dollars (hundreds of thousands?) on lavish celebrations and parties to reward their team for the tiniest effort? Those days have been gone for a while — along with a lot of …
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Do team leaders get to act differently just because they’re team leaders? Nope. One of the things you should remember is that your team will pay more attention to what you do than what you say.
That big report for the executive team is due next week and you just realized that one section you delegated to a team member is nowhere to be found. Checking in with him, you discover the team member hasn’t even …
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