There’s one request that I hear exclusively when I’m asked to work with a female leader: “Can you help her sound older?”
read more...Why Some Grown Women Sound Like Girls
Category: Leadership
How to Respond to ‘I Told You So’
No one likes hearing “I told you so.” How leaders choose to respond to the sentiment can be an opportunity to demonstrate their self-possession and professionalism.
read more...5 Situations Where You Need to Avoid Giving Feedback
Performance feedback helps, unless it makes things worse. Here are five times to skip giving feedback until you have a smarter strategy.
read more...20 Questions to Ask before Your next Team Presentation
Presenting as a team can showcase your talent — or make you look unprofessional and uncoordinated. Here’s how to make a team presentation work for you.
read more...4 Ways to Get Non-Collaborators on Board
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.
read more...Speaking at the Speed of Trust
For leaders to set the vision, communicate it, and help people buy into that vision, they first need to be perceived as trustworthy. Every time a leader speaks, formally or informally, he or she has the opportunity to build trust or erode it.
read more...7 Ways to Get Better at Anything
Most of us find ourselves in the intersection of wanting to win and wanting to get better. When we put our egos aside long enough to care less about being the best so that we can be challenged to become better, we invest in our futures rather than in maintaining the status quo.
read more...Why You Should Make Time for Self-Reflection (Even If You Hate Doing It)
The hardest leaders to coach are those who won’t reflect — particularly leaders who won’t reflect on themselves.
read more...HBR Live: Giving & Receiving Feedback
Harvard Business Review and our Director of Learning Deborah Grayson Riegel discuss the benefits and challenges of giving feedback, and how to effectively structure a feedback conversation in this HBR Live event.
read more...How to Memorably Introduce Another Speaker
A memorable introduction is like a commercial: it should engage and persuade the audience to listen to the speaker. Give an introduction that makes a clear case for why listening to the speaker might be more beneficial than answering emails or taking a coffee break.
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