The Right Way to Respond to Negative Feedback

September 22, 2017October 10, 2017 | by Deborah Grayson Riegel

Don’t deny, defend, or dwell on negative feedback – unless you never want to improve your skills or advance your career. Here’s the right way to respond.

5 Situations Where You Need to Avoid Giving Feedback

September 5, 2017September 14, 2017 | by Deborah Grayson Riegel

Performance feedback helps, unless it makes things worse. Here are five times to skip giving feedback until you have a smarter strategy.

7.21.17 Boda Insights

July 21, 2017September 9, 2020 | by The Boda Group

Happy Summer! What makes for effective leadership communication? According to Boda’s Director of Learning, Deb Riegel, leaders who successfully engage and inspire share the common characteristic of […]

4 Ways to Get Non-Collaborators on Board

July 5, 2017September 27, 2017 | by Deborah Grayson Riegel

Image credit: Leadership by Pedro Ribeiro Simões/CC BY https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosimoes7/1301014184

Leaders need to be willing and able to address folks whose “go it alone” behaviors may be costing their team, their project, and their company.

6.13.17 Boda Insights: When to Skip an Difficult Conversation

June 13, 2017September 9, 2020 | by The Boda Group

Leaders and teams often avoid stressful and challenging conversations. Sometimes this is unproductive, but at times this can be a helpful and appropriate response. Our Director […]

9.22.16 Boda Insights

September 22, 2016September 9, 2020 | by The Boda Group

We hope you had a good summer and your autumn is off to a good start. We’ve been busy and have a lot to share – two […]

Why Building Community Matters

July 22, 2016November 17, 2017 | by Summer Turner

Creating a sense of community is one of the toughest challenges facing leaders today. But community is critical to the engagement that drives performance and retention. The process of building community is so central to leadership that it even has a name: “contextual leadership.”