Put Your People First

Everyone’s a little nervous right now, have you noticed?

We’re all dealing with a challenging work environment. Leadership is freaked out about economic instability (is a recession coming? Wait, is i...

Bringing your team together for an offsite can be an extraordinarily powerful and beneficial use of time… Or it can be a complete waste of time that further reinforces ineffective interpersonal dynami...

So you want to be collaborative and inclusive when making decisions. Great.

Step one of that process is to not be a Lone Wolf Leader.

Step two is to reach out to key stakeholders to get their input ...

Several decades ago, it was en vogue for a high-powered CEO or senior leader to cultivate a “lone-wolf leader” personality. The idea was that one hero would single-handedly advance their department or...

Values. Schmalues…

I get it. Honing in on core values might sound like an exercise in futility. Does any company actually care about an individual’s personal values, and whether they match up with th...

Are you losing your best people, or struggling to attract new hires fast enough?

The war for talent is fierce right now. Hybrid work, The Great Resignation, labor shortages, and skills gaps have orga...

Have you been wondering what an executive or leadership coach is? Maybe someone has gotten your curiosity sparked about the work they are doing with their coach. Or perhaps your management has suggest...

A few years ago, I worked with the twenty-six-year-old CEO of a design start-up. He didn't have a ton of experience yet, but he was a real go-getter. As soon as he was able, he hired all of his friend...

During a recent Zoom meeting with a team I've been coaching through some organizational change, I scanned my computer screen and realized that only about half of the folks were paying attention. At on...

In October, I wrote about a young tech company struggling to create a cohesive and psychologically safe work culture while running two offices in different cities. Despite operating under the same lea...

During a recent coaching session, one of my clients mentioned that she'd been dealing with a colleague who was really mad at her. "We used to be friends," she told me, "and now that I'm in a new role,...

Our T.R.U.S.T model for building and repairing trust in the workplace ends with transparency, but it is by no means the least important principle. It bookends our model because all of the other letter...