If you’ve always struggled to give negative feedback to your team, this is for you. “I love giving negative feedback at work,” said no one ever. Unless you enjoy causing people to be angry, upset or hurt — chances are you don’t like giving difficult feedback. We squirm, postpone, or avoid having to relay hard truths,…
From our online leadership community in Know Your Team, The Watercooler, we gathered the best tips for sharing knowledge effectively across your team. A few months back, one of our members of The Watercooler in Know Your Team — our online community for more than 1,000 CEOs, executives, and managers— posed a question to the group. He…
Here are some of the most counterintuitive leadership mistakes I’ve fallen victim to. Making a mistake as a leader is never fun. You unintentionally embarrass a co-worker in front of the team. Or you brush off what you thought was a minor issue… only to watch it balloon into something huge weeks later. I’ve been there.…
Interview with Daniel Houghton, CEO of Lonely Planet. – How To Lead Cynics. – The 4 Inflection Points of Company Culture. – Why People Lose Motivation — and What Managers Can Do to Help
If you’re busy as a leader, you’re doing it wrong. The best leaders seem to be the busiest. If you’re busy, you’re getting a bunch of stuff done: You’re tending to your team, you’re making stuff happen. Being busy as a leader is a good characteristic…Right? Well, quite the opposite. Being busy as a leader is…
Compiled from 4 + years’ worth of data, advice, and insights Over the past four years, I’ve written a fair share about how to be a good leader: I’ve offered leadership tips in our blog, pulling personal examples of what I’ve faced and learned. I’ve compiled leadership advice from, The Watercooler, where over 1,000 leaders have…
Specific questions that’ll help you get the actionable feedback you’re looking for. Most of us run some sort of employee survey in our company… But how often is it that we learn something surprising from them? Or how about something actionable? Our research has shown you will get more honest, actionable feedback when you ask specific…
A better company culture can start with you – not just the CEO. “Culture starts from the top,” it’s often said. But is that really true? Surely, it is easier to influence company culture when you’re at the top. As a CEO, founder, or business owner, people are already looking to you for example and guidance around…
From over 1,000+ leaders all over the world in The Watercooler in Know Your Team, here are the six most-recommended books if you’re looking to become a good leader. We all have that one book — the one that shaped who we are as leaders. For some of us, it may have been more than one book. For…
How do you help create the positive workplace culture you’re looking for? Start here. “How do you actually influence company culture?” This is the big, hairy question I often get asked by CEOs, managers, and employees alike. I recently posed it at the end of the piece, The 3 Key Elements of Company Culture — And Why…