How do you give feedback that helps someone learn and improve? This strategic developmental feedback requires careful thought and insightful construction.
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Category: Leadership
How to Say No Assertively to a Request for Your Time
While “no” is a complete sentence when it comes to responding to a request, leaders at all levels wrestle with being too passive, too aggressive, or even passive-aggressive.
read more...The Right Way to Respond to Negative Feedback
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.
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...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...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...Webinar: Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Please join us for our next webinar, Leading with Emotional Intelligence, on Nov. 3. Presented by two very experienced Boda coaches, this webinar will offer some research-based techniques to expand and apply these skills to real-world scenarios.
read more...The Power of Storytelling
Why do we love a good story?
And what makes a story good?
We recently hosted a gathering of clients and friends to answer these questions and explore the power of storytelling for leaders.
Why Building Community Matters
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.”
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