Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: Annual performance reviews are coming up. As a manager, I know that it’s my responsibility to give both positive and constructive feedback. But giving constructive feedback is not something I’m very good at. I often find myself making excuses for my team members’ underperformance. Do you have any suggestions for given constructive feedback instead of mixed messages?
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Welcome to the twenty-eighth issue of CEE News!
It’s that time of the year again. Just after Thanksgiving and a few weeks before Christmas. We can still savor the memories of great food shared with family and friends without panicking about what gifts to get for them. It’s also a good time to pause and look back on the year before diving headfirst into 2018. Before you get caught up in goal setting, take some time to deliberately reflect on where you are today. Here are a couple of quick tips to help you do so.
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A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
If you ask Aaron Muderick what he does for a living, he’s likely to say, “Professional Kid”. Muderick, a fidgety computer scientist, was constantly playing with Silly Putty while thinking at work. One day, he borrowed some textbooks from a friend who had just completed her Ph.D. in chemistry.
He learned enough from the borrowed books to teach himself how to invent what he calls “Thinking Putty”. His company’s mission of occupying idle hands goes beyond creating cool desk toys. Muderick’s other goal is to provide employment ...
Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I have been looking for a new position since September, but haven’t been successful. With the holiday season in full swing, would I be better off putting a hold on my job search and start up again in January?
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Welcome to the twenty-seventh issue of CEE News!
When I meet with new executive coaching clients on the first day, I give them two things: a set of reflection exercises and a journal. It’s a nice, moleskin journal with our firm’s logo embossed on the front cover. I tell them that, over the course of our work together, they’re going to be given the opportunity to make some changes to help them grow personally and professionally.
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A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
If your employees could vote you in or out as their leader, would you keep your position? That was just one of the many questions that Richardo Semler started to ask when he went to work for his father’s company, SEMCO Partners, in the late 1970’s. At the time, the San Paulo, Brazil-based company built pumps and propellers for ships. Semler immediately noticed that SEMCO employees were clearly boxed in by a hierarchical organizational structure. This was not a structure in which Semler wanted to spend the rest of his career. So, ...
Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I live in Philadelphia and just started a position as an IT Manager of an advertising firm in New York City. Can you recommend any podcasts that I could listen to during my commute to help me grow my leadership skills?
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Welcome to the twenty-sixth issue of CEE News!
A few weeks ago, I was asked by one of my clients if I could help her company with strategic planning. My answer was, “Yes and no.” I explained that, “Yes, I would be happy to help your team create a strategic plan, but only if I can also help them with strategy execution.” This is the season of the year where many of us are busy working on strategic plans. But, if we don’t have a process to turn our strategic plans into executable goals that we track each month, those plans could be DOA (dead on arrival).
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