How to Ask For Feedback

How to Ask For Feedback

  Asking for feedback is always important. Feedback is a great source of new insight into how your behavior affects other people. It’s also a direct way to close the self-awareness gap. It ensures that our intentions are effectively communicated and that...
How to Be a Good Team Player

How to Be a Good Team Player

  One of the more infuriating pieces of feedback that people receive is, “You’re not a team player.” That’s actually not feedback; that’s judgment. We are judged and evaluated in ways that are so squishy, slippery, and unhelpful....
How to Deal With Passive Aggressive Coworkers

How to Deal With Passive Aggressive Coworkers

  It may be tempting to dismiss a passive-aggressive coworker as unworthy of your time or effort, but I want you to consider another perspective: perhaps their indirect approach is due to fear rather than laziness or malice. Few people like passive-aggressive...
How to Have Healthy Conflict in the Workplace

How to Have Healthy Conflict in the Workplace

  Are you feeling a lot of conflict within your team, the kind that isn’t necessarily healthy? I want to provide a framework for understanding three different types of team conflict. One of them is great and should be encouraged, but the other two can be...
Communicating a Strategic Plan to Your Team

Communicating a Strategic Plan to Your Team

  So, you don’t have a strategy, but you’ve decided that it’s time for your team, your department, your function, or even your organization to have one. This is the last step in our strategic planning series—and this is a really important step,...