Leadership
You Can’t Outwork a Bad Strategy
I live on a lake in rural Wisconsin. I’m not a hunter, but hunters sometimes find our lake during duck season. Yesterday there were a couple thousand Canada geese on our lake and the lake…
Framework for Having Transformational Conversations
Relationships are messy. Our clients often ask us for help having difficult or courageous conversations. We challenge them to have transformational conversations instead. Here are a couple of recent examples: A high performing employee asked…
Feedback: Stage by Stage
Learning how to give and receive feedback effectively is imperative for leadership development. Some people dread it, some people don’t get enough of it. Some leaders are great at giving feedback and some avoid it…
How to Receive Negative Feedback
Receiving feedback has always been hard for me. I grew up in a community and in an environment where I felt the persistent pull towards perfection. Part of it is in my nature. Part of…
Feedback in the Time of Now
The Time of Now Praise is normally easy to give and accept. Feedback, especially corrective feedback, is not always easy to accept. It is also not always easy to give–especially now and in the months…