Go Ahead: Start Honest Feedback Conversations With Every Team Member, Even if You’ve Avoided Them
You may have an aha! experience of realizing that feedback is something you need to do. Now. And on a regular basis. Even though a lot of...
- Jan 16, 2021
- 2 min
How to Encourage People to Give Themselves Feedback and Act on It
Here are some tips for leading the feedback effort in your team.
- Oct 30, 2020
- 3 min
“Ghosting” People Comes From Fear of Giving Feedback
4 ghosting prevention tips:
While these suggestions won’t bring back a romantic partner, they can prevent you from seeing ghosts at work.
- Aug 27, 2020
- 1 min
Training Industry Article: 7 Tips For Giving Feedback To Remote Team Members
You may be accustomed to seeing team members in person at least some of the time, and giving feedback to colleagues or direct reports may...
- Jul 10, 2020
- 2 min
When You Communicate Via Meetings, Speak Four Languages to Reach All Team Members
When you’re handling a lot of team communications via group video meetings, you have to make sure you reach everyone on the team. For...
- Jun 26, 2020
- 2 min
No More Strawberry Fields: Great Remote Leaders Make It Real For People Who Work-From-Home
people are working at home, their vision of the business may get more and more remote from reality. “Nothing is real” as The Beatles 60s...
- Jun 17, 2020
- 2 min
Lead During a Pandemic by Building a Growth Mindset in Your Team
You’re on the line now to do way more than manage the day-to-day activities of your team. Overnight change has forced everyone into...
- May 28, 2020
- 2 min
Doing Two Really Hard Things at Once: Leading Remotely and Giving Helpful Feedback
Even though it may be new for you, some of you may prefer leading from a distance over the old routine at the office. You may love some...
- May 8, 2020
- 2 min
When You Lead A Remote Team, Your Feedback Must Be Shared Immediately After A Problem or Just Before
When leading a remote team, any feedback you delay is inferior feedback. You would think the opposite: Things are more relaxed now, and I...
- Apr 17, 2020
- 2 min
If You’re New at Leading from Home, Always Know What’s Most Important
So many of us have been plunged into a new role of leading or coordinating people working at home while adjusting to working from home...
- Mar 27, 2020
- 2 min
If You Want to Raise Performance from Remote Team Members, Stay Close to Them Emotionally
It won’t work to create distance with your team both physically and emotionally. We’re almost all officing at home during this sudden...
- Mar 23, 2020
- 4 min
How to Guide Your Off-Site Team By More Connection, Goal Clarity and Feedback
If you lead a team in any capacity—as project leader, manager, or subject matter expert, you can’t let physical distance be an excuse for...
- Feb 28, 2020
- 1 min
5 Easy Ways to Incorporate Feedback Into Your Work Life Every Day
Giving feedback may be your least favorite part of your job. You don’t love asking for it, and you really hate giving it. But you are...
- Jan 21, 2020
- 2 min
Give Feedback the Way Those Under 40 Want It
Based on recent research about the current workplace, there’s been a shift in how younger workers want their feedback. Several of these...
- Dec 6, 2019
- 2 min
Give Honest, Helpful Feedback To People Who Irritate You: Find A Way to Like Them First
What does liking people have to do with giving them fair, objective feedback? As it turns out, a lot. People you find annoying are people...
- Oct 18, 2019
- 2 min
Convert Your Stress to Positive Expectation Before You Give Feedback
OK, you’ve finally decided to have a feedback conversation with someone you’d like to behave differently. Anxiety in your fear center As...
- Oct 4, 2019
- 2 min
After You’re Comfortable Giving Great Feedback, Make Sure to Benefit from the Feedback that Comes Ba
As a feedback consultant, I spend most of my time helping people get up enough nerve to give feedback to someone who may react...
- Sep 13, 2019
- 2 min
Helping Your Team Members Change Their Priorities
It seems like an impossible situation. Your direct reports are already stressed and stretched to do the jobs the way they’ve always...
- Aug 30, 2019
- 2 min
When you want to hold your people more accountable…Either/or thinking is what is holding you back!
If you’re a leader, you may feel frustrated with your players’ performance—some of your team members or or all of them. Positive stuff...
- Jul 5, 2019
- 2 min
Giving Feedback to Overly-Confident People
Some people may appear to not need and not want feedback about their work activities. Yet, their actions impact your success and can...