Giving Criticism Like a Pro

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• Cell phones are ruining your relationships

  A recent study: Asked 34 pairs of strangers to spend 10 minutes chatting to each other about “an interesting event that occurred to you over the past month”. The participants sat on chairs in a private booth and for half of them, close by but out of their direct line of view, a mobile phone […]

• Giving Criticism Like a Pro

  Reblogged from Leadership Freak: Stop talking if you’re a critical boss. You may say, “I’m just being helpful.” Unrequested criticism is like a drive-by shooting – there’s no responsibility for positive outcomes. It’s sleazy and easy. After writing, “Taking Criticism Like a Pro” a reader asks, “How about teaching bosses how to give criticism like […]

• 10 Ways to Encourage Discouraged People

  Reblogged from Leadership Freak: Leaders who lift get further than those who push down. Performace improves when people feel encouraged and declines when they’re discouraged or hopeless. You don’t have to beat up high-performers – they do it to themselves – lift them instead. All successful leaders encourage; they fill people with hope. The added responsibility […]

• Organizational Culture is…

  Frances Frei and Anne Morriss  at HBR.org offer the best definition of organizational culture: culture guides discretionary behavior and it picks up where the employee handbook leaves off. Culture tells us how to respond to an unprecedented service request. It tells us whether to risk telling our bosses about our new ideas, and whether to […]

• Three tips for building thought leaders and do leaders

  Mindjet has a great post on thought leaders verses do leaders.  The difference between them isn’t nearly as important as the fact that (a) you can play both roles and (b) effective organizational teams have both.  But, the question for me as a leader is: How do I build teams that have thought leaders and do […]