Promoting and Selling Your Ideas — 3 Steps to Success
Ever get a good idea? It starts out as a feeling that you might have a solution to a problem. A few days later you’re thinking Hey, I’ve got something here. This could really help. And the cost is well...
View ArticleLeaders: Got Questions? Ask Your People!
Ken Blanchard tells a story about his early days as a consultant. One day he was brought in to help address a turnover problem at a manufacturing plant in the Southeastern United States. In spite of...
View ArticleManaging Polarities: A Key Skill for the Well-Intentioned Manager
Being a great manager means balancing the needs of your people with the results you are trying to achieve. This can be a fiendishly hard balance to strike, and maintain. For example: As managers we are...
View ArticleSetting Boundaries: 7 Ways Good Managers Get It Wrong
Employees know when they have a “nice” manager who isn’t really in charge—and in the end, it makes them feel unsafe. Dr. Henry Cloud literally wrote the book on this topic, but I wanted to share a cast...
View ArticleLeaders: Stop Adding Value—Just Listen
I was talking with a Blanchard® coach the other day about the topic of recognition. She told me about a newly promoted VP she’s working with. He believes there is a need for just-in-time recognition in...
View ArticleAre You A Well-Intentioned Manager? The 3 Skills You Need to Succeed
My goal with this blog is to host an advice column for you, the well intentioned manager. Over the past seven weeks we’ve looked at some of the ways that well-intentioned managers get it wrong so that...
View Article5 Tips for Building Clarity and Confidence at Work: Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I’ve been in my job for 18 months and I’m good at it. I’m basically pretty clear about what I’m supposed to be doing, and I know my coworkers see me as dependable. My problem is that I...
View ArticleAfraid You’ve Peaked? 4 Ways to Keep Growing: Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I recently earned a great big promotion, and just moved into a beautiful house with my hubby and toddler. But the truth is, I am terrified of all the success I’ve had before 35. However...
View ArticleNew Job Making You Crazy? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine: I have recently been transferred to be the principal of a college. I am tasked with lecturing as well as ensuring that the curriculum is quality assured and that financial management...
View ArticleDeveloping as a Leader? Sometimes Less Is More—3 Questions to Ask Yourself
I was recently coaching a client who had been identified by his organization as a top performer. During our first call, we talked about the things he initially wanted to focus on for his professional...
View ArticleThe Problem with Being a Problem Solver
Clients are often surprised when I tell them, “The problem with being a good problem solver is that everything looks like a problem!” It usually comes up when these leaders are describing how they are...
View ArticleDealing with Small Things that Drain Your Energy: Ask Madeleine
Last week, I responded to a question about putting up with way too much. I introduced the idea of tolerations, those small, seemingly inconsequential things that drain your energy. They have a way of...
View ArticleEngineers, Programmers, Scientists: Start Here to Lead a Technical Project Team
Can’t we just get to work? Why do we have to spend time getting all touchy-feely about how we will work together? If you lead or assist virtual teams of engineers, programmers, scientists, or technical...
View ArticleDon’t Confuse Collaboration with Being Nice: 7 Ways to Promote Healthy Team...
In her consulting work with organizations, teams expert Eunice Parisi-Carew finds that organizations sometimes confuse collaboration with simply getting along or being polite. That’s a common...
View Article5 Steps to Creating a Truly Collaborative Work Environment
I recently had an opportunity to sit in on a webinar conducted by Ken Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-Carew, and Jane Ripley, coauthors of the new book Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster. As they...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Coaching Question
During our recent 2015 Blanchard Summit, we were lucky to have Mike Rognlien from Facebook conduct one of our client sessions. Mike said a couple of things that really stuck with me, including how if...
View ArticleThinking About Tattling On a Co-worker? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I lead a great team at a large construction engineering firm. I feel that my boss is being taken advantage of by a couple of my peers who report to him. My boss travels a lot, so he is...
View ArticleMy Boss Doesn’t Back Me: Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I manage the creative design department for my company and have for years. We have a reputation for offering inspired and visually arresting products—because of me, basically. My boss...
View ArticleSix Tips for Choosing a Mentor, or a Coach, or Both!
This Coaching Tuesday guest post is by Judith Donin. I recently found myself sitting beside a young entrepreneur on a flight, and we started chatting. His business was at a crossroads and he was...
View ArticleTransparency and Leading Change: 3 Areas to Focus On
“Thank you for your transparency!” These words came at the end of a presentation I gave where I shared a new strategy—a strategy that would require change, including new roles and some sacrifice, from...
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