We leaders fight.

We fight for one outcome. And that outcome is:

Feeling DONE.

You know that feeling. That feeling of having crossed of all your To Do’s. YEAH! The feeling at the end of the workday that makes you realize that you’ve done it all. No files to look at, no emails waiting in your Inbox for […]

Some managers keep playing the same leadership game over and over again. This game is hard to break. It’s an old-school-leadership thought process that often is taken to be “the way it should be.”

What is it?

It’s about HOW you relate to your employees.  And when it comes to relating to employees, most managers think in […]

“What the heck! How I’m going to react to this challenge? I’m the leader here. What to do?”

That happens to all of use. Uncommon situations. How to solve this situation? No leadership book, blog post or previous experience available to addresses this specific situation.

In this blog post I describe two leadership challenges that happened to […]

1-on-1’s take a good chunk of your time. At least they should.

But time is not always what you have. Result: you don’t prepare as well as you had planned to do when you started in your management role.

So, what do you end up doing?

Just sit there and (trying to) listen?

Or

Solve their problems?

I hope not.

Remember, 1-on-1’s […]