As leaders, being confronted by emotion is part of the job. Often, the actions we take as leaders can contribute to or generate that emotion. Emotional displays can be genuine or they can be manufactured as a defense against whatever it is you are bringing. Performance management is a particular venue in which a blowup […]
Monthly Archives: March 2015
March
21
No Crying in Baseball (But what about the office?) – Part I
posted by Jeffrey Thomason
As leaders, there is no situation more commonplace than dealing with the range of emotions exhibited by your team. All leaders train and educate themselves to produce, through their actions, those emotions that are “desired” (excitement, happiness, pride, joy, gratitude, interest, hope, inspiration). However, all leaders are confronted on a consistent basis with the negative results of […]
March
11
Loyalty is a Two-Way Street
posted by Jeffrey Thomason
The alchemy of good leadership leads to many products. Among them is loyalty, which is a topic we have mentioned before in terms of its relationship to high performing teams. The crux of that discussion was the hopeful intent of fostering that quality in the teams you lead and ones of which you are a […]
March
06
The Art of Getting Stuff Done – 4 Things Leaders Should Know
posted by Jeffrey Thomason
A review of contemporary literature on business success (or success in any endeavor involving the joint efforts of two or more people) often breaks down success into a couple of principles. Leadership and management are often discussed in the same conversation as if they are two separate end states which will sometimes run at cross-purposes […]
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